Tuesday, June 9th, 2015
For two years I was hacking up a lung. It was interfering with my sleep, with my job, with my life, and there seemed to be no cure for it. The funny thing is, I didn’t feel sick. I felt normal in every way except that I could not stop coughing. There was a little
Wednesday, May 13th, 2015
My date leaned over and asked, “What year is this car?” Now the car in question was a BMW 328iS, and at the time it was six years old, which is what I told her. She then...
Monday, April 27th, 2015
So the other day I posted about these golliwog dolls that were being sold in a shop in my neighborhood. My neighborhood is pretty diverse. I’ve lived here for 10 years and I know shop owners pretty...
Thursday, April 16th, 2015
Unlike many people, I do not have my taxes deducted in advance from my earnings. I’m retired/self-employed so I get to write a big fat check instead. Let me tell you, nothing brings this whole tax thing...
Wednesday, April 15th, 2015
Kids these days are punks and cowards. They can sit behind their computers and phones and talk shit about the person they have a problem with but won’t actually confront them to their face. The word bullying...
Tuesday, March 10th, 2015
A “right” is something that cannot, or at least, ought not be taken away. To take away someone’s right, is to do wrong. For example, you have a right to your own life. That doesn’t mean that...
Monday, December 8th, 2014
No one likes typhoons, with the possible exception of CNN. As yet another typhoon ravaged the Philippines, leaving a wake of destruction, there is not much to like. The human suffering caused by these mega-storms cannot help...
Thursday, November 6th, 2014
Some are despondent, while others are ecstatic over the results of Tuesday’s mid-term election. Neither emotion is likely to be warranted. In all practicality, the difference between the parties is very small. Democrats who fear that Republicans...
Monday, November 3rd, 2014
Nothing burns my butt like phony neutrality. You know the people I’m talking about. The ones who say things like, “I just want to do what’s best.” Really? Best for who? In politics, this “best for who”...
Friday, October 31st, 2014
At the start of the First World War, the big idea guys said that regular people would not march off to fight and kill their neighbors. Instead, they would rise up to overthrow their rulers, and then...
Tuesday, October 28th, 2014
I like countries. Not because I like imaginary lines drawn around piles of dirt, but rather because I like diverse cultures. When I go to Japan, I want to see Japanese people doing Japanese things. When I...
Tuesday, October 21st, 2014
I’m pushing Mr. X down to Radiology in his wheelchair. He’s telling me the story about the time he drove Huntz Hall around Okinawa for a day on a USO tour. I’ve heard it before, but I...
Monday, October 20th, 2014
Gene Simmons has a lot to say when he isn’t busy spitting blood and playing bass with his rock band KISS. As owner of the Arena football team, L.A. KISS, Simmons wanted to hire Tim Tebow, and...
Saturday, October 18th, 2014
Arguably the most powerful woman in the world, Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen, complained of rising income inequality in a recent speech. In an attempt to make the Fed more likeable, Yellen is simply expressing the popular...
