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High Muckety-Muck

In Blog on 23 July 2008 with no comments

I don’t like groups of people. Groups become all uppity and self-righteous. They form associations, make rules, and wave their private parts at Others that don’t know their Secret Handshakes.
The next thing you know these groups are telling the Others who they can hang with, which god they can talk to, and who they can […]

Okay. This One Made Me Snort.

In Blog on 18 July 2008 with 3 comments

Men and Women

In Blog on 18 July 2008 with 1 comment

I’m not in the habit of reading jokie-jokes that are forwarded to me. I tell friends, “If I see that you blindly forwarded something to me, I delete it without opening it. If you think that something is so funny that I need to read it, take the time to copy-and-paste it, and attach a […]

Bully

In Blog on 18 July 2008 with 1 comment

We all know Richard Simmons, right? He’s the guy who promotes fitness, sells diet cads and exercise tapes, and specializes in the really, really obese?
I heard him interviewed on the radio yesterday. He’s going to testify in front of congress about why schools need to keep their physical education programs. I agree with Richard.
Actually, whatever […]

I’m Still Alive

In Blog on 16 July 2008 with 1 comment

I disappear from the cyberworld from time-to-time. I don’t mean it. Real-life and interests get in the way and I seem to fade away …
So what have you been doing?
Well, it’s summer. So I’ve been summering.
The sun stays up longer, so I’m outside longer. The kids are off from school, so we’re out longer.
We’re in […]

Fighting Words

In Blog on 11 July 2008 with 2 comments

Yesterday, I was almost in a fight. An honest-ta-goodness fist fight. An old-fashioned scuffle. A bare-knuckle brewhaha.
Almost, but not quite. Damn.
You see, yesterday I was playing a quick nine holes after work with a few buds - my regular, weekday foursome - when some young knuckleheads thought we’d purposefully hit into them. Two of our […]

In the Water I Am Beautiful

In Blog on 10 July 2008 with 3 comments

I’d forgotten where that came from: “In the water I am beautiful.”
Several years ago, I wrote a bit that contained the above quote. I don’t remember the bit and didn’t, until the other day, remember where the quote came from.
Citizen X from tanjents.com emails me several times per year asking if I could repost the […]

Purposefully Misled

In Blog on 9 July 2008 with no comments

Do you think George W. Bush purposefully misled to the United States Congress and its citizens when he led us to war in Iraq?
Do you think he purposefully misled us when he said that Saddam Hussein was linked to the terrorists who knocked down the World Trade Center, knocked a hole in the Pentagon, and […]

Jill Bolte Taylor

In Blog on 8 July 2008 with 2 comments

On the way home from work I stopped at BJ’s to pick up dog food, cat litter, and Band-Aids. As is my wont, I perused the big book table. Books are a big deal to me — they are the tangible experiences of our collective unconscious; they are our communication with the great minds of […]

Martin Luther King Boulevard

In Blog on 2 July 2008 with 2 comments

The only other time I thought I was going to be killed in a felonious assault, I was working for the same company: OMNI Homecare.
I was in a town not dissimilar to the aforementioned Asbury Park driving along Martin Luther King Boulevard. You remember what Chris Rock said about Martin Luther King Boulevard:
If a friend […]