Luddites Unite!

A Walmart employee was crushed to death this morning as Black Friday hordes pushed through the doors, crumpling them like tin and charged over the male employee who stood in their way.  2000 people were waiting in line at the Long Island Walmart.  Dozens of Walmart employees tried to rescue their co-worker only to be repelled [...]

I saw the newest Bond movie, Quantum of Solace and I insist that you go see it.  It will help to see Casino Royale first, but you don’t have to.  I remember being dissapointed with Casino Royale.  Here was a new Bond that seemed to have more in common with Timothy Dalton than Sean Connery.  [...]

Finally the Nimbi’s have something to really complain about (Not In My Back Yard for those of you living in a cave).  A company has started production on a garden shed sized nuclear reactor encased in concrete that can power 20,000 homes.  There are no moving parts, no weapons grade material and the concrete and the fact [...]

The Zombie Apocalypse; movies have been made, books have been written (including a nifty survival guide), and thousands, maybe millions of nerds, geeks and otherwise normal looking people are planning how they are going to survive the Z.A.  And yes, I am one of those people. 

Its simple, really. Take your work, favorite shopping plaza or your [...]

The Big 3 American auto makers are hemorrhaging badly.  Sales are down so much, so sharply reading about them can induce vertigo.  No one is buying their vehicles, especially the SUV’s and trucks.  Of course the plants are still making them, some inexplicable aspect of the backwards union rules that have made our auto-makers, one of the [...]

I can’t believe I spelled Kankakee right on the first try, but that is neither here nor there.

Perhaps I have mentioned this before, but ‘Dog Soldiers’ is a damn fine werewolf movie, to be held in high esteem in the rarefied air of good werewolf movies.  For the record, there are precious few good werewolf [...]

I have not posted for a while because my brain kept obsessing on the election.  Some part of me wanted to write another election post, but most of me didn’t want to.  To be honest, I was and am sick of the whole political thing, this thing of ours.  So, [...]