It was a Sunday, four days before Thanksgiving, and my mom was in town visiting. My son had a good […]
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I hate the gun control debate
There’s been another mass shooting in America. The victims’ families are grieving, some of the wounded and the might-have-been-killed-if-not-for-dumb-luck are […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The creature stirs
I have a love-hate relationship with blogging about the news. There are times when I revel in it, when it’s […]
Ray of Infamy 