The Death Cult Stages a Coup A while back, when I wrote out in plain words that we have a politically dominant death cult ruling America right now, I worried about the risks of saying my...
Seven is Angry, Sadly Each year, I try to write a memorial post on the anniversary, to remind myself, and as a record of where I am compared to where I was that day. As I read back...
Interview with Ray Nagin The WWL radio interview with New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin has made me angrier than anything I’ve seen in the aftermath of Katrina. I’m the type of person who’s...
Spoilers Ahead, Full Speed! The current bane of my existence? Spoiler queens. "Don’t tell meeeeee!" they shriek. You know you’ve got one, too, someone who insists that the wor...
Two Years I’ve never been mugged. I grew up in a town where the impression of New York City was basically either "That place you go to get mugged." or "Th...
i hate to say it I don’t want to be the one to rain on your parade, but if you spend most of your free time developing your Everquest character, you are never going to be elect...
mimi smartypants I am love mimi smartypants : “If fury were peanuts, I’d be George Washington Carver.” This meshes nicely with my assertion that “My white-hot rage is white-...
puddle stomping step one: wear my new favorite white sweater step two: get puddle-splashed by a passing taxi step three: cry...
The ball weaved a bouncing The ball weaved a bouncing path between the cars and ended up starting its final descent onto our street a few feet above my head. I reached up and grasped t...
Sometimes the best revenge is Sometimes the best revenge is to let people splash about in their own idiocy....
So the problem with my So the problem with my habit of complaining all the time is that when I have a geniuine complaint, I’ve already used up all my whine quota. Suffice to say, I w...
It doesn't matter who's wrong It doesn’t matter who’s wrong or right, just Beat It . (Thanks, Cam !)...
a minor revelation Little bit of not-quite-wisdom which I have realized is very, very true: We hate most in others that which he have failed to see in ourselves . Or, as I like...