I didn’t watch Trump’s State of the Union speech last night. I had more pressing things to do, like play video games. But here’s how I imagine it went…
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Ray O'Neill
Where it is, or is not, legal to shelter the homeless
Picture if you will a man who has spare room in his basement. He knows some local homeless people and wants to help them out, so he lets them use his basement to get out of the cold.
Now picture what happens to that man.
Please, No One Tell the TSA About This
Frankfurt, Germany: After completing the required manual check of the hand luggage, the police officers determined that the luggage did […]
Shutdown Theater, Winter 2018
In case you missed it, here are the episode summaries from the latest season of Shutdown Theater: Episode 1: THE […]
A reminder about signature drives
The signature gatherers I’ve met have essentially been day laborers. If their hustling seems desperate, that’s because they’re doing piecework. […]
In praise of The Eye of Argon
The year was 1970. The Beatles broke up. The Apollo 13 crew almost died. The US got bored with bombing […]
My position, or lack thereof, on net neutrality
As I’m writing this, we don’t know yet if the government will roll back its net-neutrality regulations. This uncertainty doesn’t […]
A word about Twitter censorship
STOP IT. I don’t care who or what Twitter’s censoring this time. I don’t care whether I agree or disagree […]
Today in corporate pseudo-charity
CNET: As technology changes the way people live and work, Google says it doesn’t want to leave anyone behind. The […]
Confidential to H.D.
If you tell a poorly-paced and unfunny joke to some random strangers at a bus stop, you shouldn’t act too […]
Ray of Infamy 