This is my place to vent, to pontificate, to educate, to defame, to expound, and yes, to wax rhapsodic. It's my personal brand of logic applied to the world, and it works for me.
What the heck is going on in Brampton that the sex trade is dying? Wait, let me start that again. Hi! How are you! Oh, I’m good! Wife and kids are fine! Yes, I am a well-balanced, stable family man, thank you for asking! So, again — sex certainly doesn’t sell in Brampton, does it? [...]
Ugh. Two days of sick. And not just that little bit of sick where you wake up achy, and really don't want to go in to work, knowing you fully could, and you'd just be grumpy but still do about the same amount of work you do while well. No, this kind of sick is [...]
I'm actually terrified by how easy this Posterous thing is going to make it for me to indulge my massive narcissism. Being able to update my blog, my twitter feed, my facebook profile…everything at once? If people we're tired of me before… Instant uploads of videos? Man, that's going to be deadly. And the other thing that [...]
Okay, sports fans, listen up. I understand that if you surround almost any situation with enough hype, enough flashing lights, enough people screaming, the instinctual animal response is to join in. I get that; I’m not ignorant to the way your brain works. But I gotta ask: do you actually love this biannual jock-fest, or [...]
The argument … is that we, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes. Like successful Chicago gangsters, our genes have survived, in some cases for millions of years, in a highly competitive world. This entitles us to expect certain qualities in our genes. I shall argue that a predominant quality to be [...]
Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement. – Author Unknown I have a question, and I honestly don’t have an answer for it. It does happen to be something I am pondering at length, but for the moment, I just want to put it out there. Why do spiritual and [...]
Nah, I ain’t Jewish, I just don’t dig on swine, that’s all. – Jules, Pulp Fiction If you have managed to go one day in the last 5 months without hearing the words “swine flu”, you have indeed been luckier than I. Not in the 35 years I’ve been alive have I heard so much [...]
So, yesterday, in my regular perusing of various RSS feeds, which include a multitude of personal blogs, I see in one blog’s sidebar the cryptic little notation that references a “Blogger’s Code of Conduct”. ‘Hey!’ I think. ‘I’m a blogger! Perhaps I should investigate this Code, and decide if it is something that I should [...]