Some truth, mostly rant

I think a combination of having my lunch interrupted and some other unfortunate events led to my channeling of Hunter S. Thompson, which I occasionally do.  Anyway, I wrote this yesterday under such influence, and while I’m in a marginally better mood today, I figured it would be good to post this for the sake [...]

In a big country

(Not a complete post, but what the hey, it’s been sitting as a draft for a long while.  Also, gives me a chance to tell everyone reading that the latest episode of my podcast contains an interview with a Presidential candidate, Mike Gravel.  Go have a look!)
George Carlin had a great routine (among many) where [...]

Mind – I say – mind your manners, son! I got a pointy hat!

I stopped at Union Station for lunch, and it’s absolutely overrun by girls in little Catholic school outfits.  (I’m told there were boys from the same schools there, too, but somehow I didn’t notice them as much.)  Yes, His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI (known to his friends as “Eggs”, arf arf) arrived in town yesterday, [...]

GOOD LORD! [CHOKE!]

I have hit the front page of Yah-who to test out a browser.  The top story is on last night’s American Idol episode, which is merely depressing, certainly in concept if not in content.  The true EC Comics horror factor kicks in when you look down in the bottom right corner.  It’s a feature labeled [...]

It’s punishment of some kind

If I’m going to watch auto racing at all, I watch Formula 1 in preference to NASCAR. The former is actual racing, which involves turning in both directions and manuevering in and out of traffic on roads meant for real cars; the latter is lining up in a row and turning left for an [...]

April Madness

Well, let’s take a look at the news.  Starbucks is selling crack, Jonah Goldberg flies to Mars in his pajamas, and the Orioles are in first place.
No, wait.  One of those stories is real.  Double-you-tee-eff, over.
The O’s were the guests of the Texas Rangers last night in a scenario that must have been the invention [...]

Baby, you can’t drive your car

I took a train to Rhode Island this weekend (but they made me put it back – bada-BING!) While there, no fewer than two locals told me, in the space of a number of hours, that Rhode Islanders ranked dead last among the states in terms of drivers’ knowledge of traffic laws. Given [...]