One of the oldest cliches in the book.

Last week a certain story captured the hearts and minds of the news media.  Joe the Plumber? No.  The spastic rise and fall like the threaded EKG of chain smoking fat man of the Dow Jones?   Nope.  Perhaps North Korea playing the US like a fiddle in getting it taken off the terrorist list by [...]

The annual ode to Autumn is upon us.

Several nights ago the temperature finally dropped, descending to a degree that pleases me on many levels and fills me with anticipation of the coming months and the chill it will bring.  Living in Florida I am a fish out of water, this is not my type of atmosphere.  I do not bask in the warmth of the [...]

Political dust bowl

As thoughts turn political I find that my muse may just be a democrat, as she has left the building, so to speak.  I have felt uninspired the past week or so, with what few free moments I have spent watching the news or listening to the radio.  Oy.  This thing is a disease, a [...]

Finally, truth in advertising.

Taco Bell has launched their new Volcano Taco.  Now this is a name a I can get behind.  Here is a product that accurately and simply describes what will happen to you after you consume it.  In the commercial a guy’s face turns red after eating the taco, and perhaps this is the only flaw I [...]

We planted an ACORN and got a shit tree. Can we just do this thing fairly?

ACORN is a voter registration organization that goes to the ‘grassroots’ and registers the poor, the needy and the unrepresented.  All well and good, except they are neck deep in fraud, very very active and in bed with the democrats; they are at Obama rallies and Obama has given them money.  We pay for this organization [...]

The debt clock is broken and the Vikings are loose!

There is a giant national debt clock running in New York City’s Time Square, it has been rapidly recording our national debt since 1989.   Well, it has run out of space to record the actual size of our national debt.  The current clock cannot show quadrillions.  I say we run the damn clock backwards and to hell [...]

From bad to worse, or what a night of cable movies says about Western Civilization.

After a hard day at work I flop down on the couch and flip on the tube.  ‘Alexander’ was on, Oliver Stone’s homage to the great conqueror of old starring Colin Farrell.  The fight scenes were badly done, Alexander’s helmet made him look like a comical bug, the whole gay thing was a distraction that, had [...]

What’s more dangerous: unclogging a toilet or banking in the United States?

I was struck by something odd today.  We had to do retraining on blood born pathogens; how they are transmitted and how you stop that transmitting from happening.  Preventing that transmittal is serious stuff.  Some real heavy gear is involved, sort of like the home version of the CDC hazmat suits.

Lets say an old lady [...]

Our elected officials are playing ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ while Rome is burning

Sorry for the break, all.  I had to take a couple days off, it being the Jewish New Year and all that.  Its called something like Rosh Shanana, I think.  I don’t know.  It doesn’t really matter what its called, just that its there, and worthy enough in some cosmic sense to take a break from [...]