Writing Faux Pas
I have tried a number of different cures in my never-ending battle with writer’s block. Friends have advised me to do a number of things, from writing about my feelings, to free writing, to brainstorms, and so on. I have even used writer’s tags to spur the writing process. One of these tags was to [...]
Seven years on
On October 12, 2000, the USS Cole was bombed by Islamic terrorists in what was only one of a long stream of terrorist attacks that have been carried out against American military personnel. When the War on Terror began, I remember thinking that it was about damned time someone stood up to these murderous 7th [...]
The rammifications of American ignorance
One of the reasons that it is very difficult to take American “culture” seriously is our never-ending fascination with people or events of minimal importance. The average American idiot is more concerned with which celebrities are getting married, getting divorced, having an affair, or making asinine and outrageous statements. Just as examples, in the last [...]
Frustrations
As I’m sure some of you have noticed, posting on this blog has flagged a little bit. Okay, it is pretty much dropped down to nothing. This was not an intentional slight to my loyal readers (all four of you), but rather a self-imposed break. It is also the lack of any subject worthy of [...]
Where’s Jan “Da Man” when you need her?
I’m not normally one to wish harm or death upon someone, though there have been a few notable exceptions through the years. This is one of them. The hatemongers of the Westboro Baptist “Church” (I refuse to link to their heinous site) have made it a point to protest the funerals of those whom they, in [...]
Open letter to Cho Seung-Hui
My self-imposed moratorium against posting on your heinous act has ended, and now it is time to say what I really feel. It does not bother me that you are no longer alive to read these words. It does, however, bother me that your actions have caused me to give voice (well, keyboard) to them. If I [...]
Political Correctness and Human Sacrifice
Don Imus has been sacrificed on the altar of political correctness. Yes, his comment about the Rutger’s women’s baseketball team, calling them “tattooed, nappy-haired hos”, was crass, vulgar, over the top, and completely uncalled for, but the comment didn’t venture into the realm of racism. His employers were right to issue a censure against him [...]
Justice has not been served…yet
One of the drawbacks of being a day-sleeper is that I routinely fall behind the news cycle. Granted, I’ll never be able to make a big-time scoop a la Matt Drudge or other big-named journalists, but it would be nice to be able to catch the news around the same time as everyone else. The [...]
Now hear this:
The next jackass to try and swipe my coffee cup from my desk - while I’m sitting here - will lose an arm. Thatisall.
Ideological Purity and Groupthink
Since the grand redesign of the blog, the upper corners of the blog have been the home of two shiny new quote blocks. The quotes in these blocks will be changing from time to time, as a testament to some of the gems that have come from men and women a bit wiser than myself. [...]
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