The Hellmouth rises as sinkholes appear. A call to arms against sinkholes From beneath you, it devours you –Buffy the Vampire Slayer Have you noticed lately that the media has been reporting about more and more sinkholes? Or as I would like to argue “hellmouths”. But I will […]
Tell me, which week doesn’t have a ton of wacky people doing silly things and even harmful things. I won’t even touch the latest school shooting. The media has noted the fact that one of the two who died (a teacher at the school) was a former soldier […]
My eyes are drooping, my head is pounding and my heart is aching. I see the train track lights straight ahead of me as I commute back home. It is so cliche to say that there is light at the end of the tunnel but I am looking […]
It has been a bit of an odd week. Government officials were acting bratty while the populace held back its murderous impulses. However, there were some wacked out thoughts put out there. Weiner in an interview noted that he was without a soul. Such a declaration, while appearing […]
Sundays were a very special day growing up in my household. It was a day where I got to play board games with my mom and we sang and danced together. There were no cell phone or iPad application games that we individually played for hours on end. […]
I believe in ghosts. I also believe that mental states are probably not separable from physical states. There indeed are ghosts in the machine. I just didn’t think they would exist in my machine. Better yet, my phone and computer. I just recently got a new phone. Before […]
We are fully in autumn now. The leaves are falling and with it perhaps the national IQ as well, along with the collective sense of dignity. Bill Maher put out a new rule last week about the state of American attire in the public sphere. We are a […]
Dear self-righteous humans: Leave us mere mortals alone I would like to pen this post to address a serious problem we are facing in the United States. Everyday, without fail, I come across the self-righteous. You would think this is something that one would have to measure by […]
I am just going to say it outright. I am so tired of trite social media status updates that sound like one long reason for individuals to be self-centered and not take responsibility for their actions. How many times during one day, must people post status updates that […]
Saying it has been a wacky week is indeed a gross understatement. Politicians have become even more unhinged, the media more self-serving and our friends in the animal kingdom have gone on a terror binge. Rage is the latest craze. Let the wacky madness begin. 1. Hornets […]