I am beginning to believe that the right, might well be, right. We are living in an age of moral depravity and if I have to draw the line in the sand and choose between some very basic liberal principles that I have clung to for my 35 plus years …
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Wieners are Fascinating
You can almost imagine this topic being mentioned in the Michael Jackson case, but in this case, it’s just a mom and her little man, and there’s no creepy vibe going on. I think I was probably five or so, when I got my first glimpse at the male reproductive …
Read More »Porn Mining – Searching for the Motherlode
I have been assigned the odious task of searching our IP logs for inappropriate internet content at work, a task I did not ask for, would rather not have, but for which I seem to have an inherent knack. By odd coincidence, on the very day we set out to …
Read More »Only Love Can Break Your Heart
How right Neil was. According to this article, a “broken heart” can cause temporary symptoms that mimic that of a heart attack. Though the effects are typically caused by extreme stress or shock, they are temporary and reversible, unlike the damage done by a real heart attack. This discovery and …
Read More »How Bullies Are Made
My son is being menaced by an encephalitic, dimwitted, maladjusted bully. Bear in mind, my son is only 14 months old and the bully is 19 months old. While the entire concept seems absurd, rest assured this is a real problem. For the past couple months, it seems like every …
Read More »State of the Union – What America really wants to hear
I am sure that President Bush has a team of speech writers checking and double checking his State of the Union speech to be delivered this evening. It will be chockful of bi-partisan chit-chat, social security this, success in Iraq that, global freedom and democracy here, torturing terrorists there; but …
Read More »Rewards of Parenting Short lived – or Enjoy The Early Years
It comes it every parent/child relationship – when the worm turns. Those big, bright eyes that once looked at you with adoring love begin to roll upwards, and the slight clucking of the tongue can be heard, and if you really, really focus you might even hear them thinking: “Oh …
Read More »Always a Critic, Never the Talent
I began writing a review about Elliott Smith’s last, posthumously released album, From a Basement On the Hill, before his suicide at age 34, but then I decided that would have to wait. As I was doing research and trying to understand why such a talented guy would kill himself, …
Read More »Modest Mouse – Good News For People Who Love Bad News
How dare they make music AND be successful?
Read More »Capturing the Spirit
It’s that time of year when I dig deeply within my psyche and suspend all disbelief in magic and listen with my whole heart and all my senses for the jingling, tingling bells of Santa’s sleigh. Does it sound silly for an adult to still believe in Santa? Perhaps, but …
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