Riddle me this, Batman: When does a 1000+ horses make a town a one horse town?

When it is Ocala. I have been in Ocala for the past couple of weeks getting my training so I can be a good assistant manager and run a Sav-a-lot properly. Days have been spent in lowest common denominator style training designed to use a large net to ensnare everyone in the IQ [...]

Stories from the front; a retail ninja’s bird’s eye view of where the rubber meets the road.

Before I start my training I am working a week in one of the Tampa stores. It has been an educational experience. I have not really had to bust ass for about 8 months. La-Z-Boy was not physically intensive, matter of fact it was sort of the opposite. Then several months [...]

Political lesson courtesy of your local neighborhood Luddite

Here are the definitions of the two parties currently in power and impacting your life according to me.

Republican Party a.k.a. The Conservatives: Holier than thou. This party believes very strongly that everyone should be able to make their own personal decisions. A list of these decisions can be found on a variety of [...]

dee_da_da_dee_da_da_dee_da_da_dee_This just in over the news wire.. China does not want to rape your children.

China has voluntarily banned the shipment of millions of toys they produced that have been coated in the date rate drug, GHB. How thoughtful of China to react so quickly, a mere 24 hours after this discovery was found in western countries (and the toys were banned by those countries). Why China is [...]

A kooky train in India, what could be more normal?

The wife and I went and saw the new Wes Anderson movie, Darjeeling Limited. I was very thankful to the wife as money is very tight right now, so when we agreed to see a movie it was good of her to go see this one with me. I’ve been a Wes Anderson [...]

Is everyone taking crazy pills!

A 13 year old girls was given detention for hugging a girl friend goodbye at school. She should have known better having been previously chastised for hugging a boy at a football game. Hugging, sans sexual activity. Hugging.

Kids can’t hug, but they can get birth control. Touching is forbidden but classes [...]

Waterboarding -Give me 10 seconds and a glass of water and I will break you

Waterboarding
What is waterboarding? Is it torture as so many say? Is it illegal as many are wondering? Is it immoral? Is it ineffective as an interrogation technique? Or, is it a very effective, quick relatively easy way to break someone so they will talk? Waterboarding appears to be a [...]

Playing with pictures, pt. 2, with the kid (Andrew).

Andrew wanted to see the laborious process of putting pictures in my blog. So here it is!

What would Jesus do?

Sav-a-lot has offered me a job. I passed the drug test, waited an excruciating week without hearing from anyone (come to find out my HR person is on vacation hence the anxious silence). Sav-a-lot reached out to me today, though they don’t have a home for me yet and may not until November [...]

TV/Film Writer’s strike looms. Execs worried average IQ may increase up to 12 points worldwide.

The cure to this? More reality shows. Yes, the breakdown in talks between the writers and the studios means more ready made, dumbed down reality TV shows since they traditionally do not use union writers. Last time a real strike happened was in 1988. That strike meant the death of Moonlighting [...]