Quick Hitts

It’s over.  Finally!  I enjoy the theater of politics (and am fully aware that it is nothing but theater) but this was like watching Warhol’s movie “Empire” (a single eight hour shot of the Empire State building) without taking a pee break. The Good In every election there is fraud, chicanery and a bit of […]

More than a half century ago Emma Goldman said “If voting changed anything they’d make it illegal.” Now we’re all being encouraged to vote vote vote, rock the vote, get out the vote, make your heard, push for change, to blah blah blah blah blah… I used to think people who didn’t vote had no […]

My company just laid off about 20% of their workforce, and I was one of the causalities. Now I get to go job hunting in an economy that’s sinking faster than Palin’s image as a folksy soccer mom. Oh joy. This is the reality of working in IT. For every IT worker who has been […]

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Here’s a list of things atheists didn’t do over the past month or so. An Atheist did not set fire to his 11 year old niece for wearing lipstick. She has burns over 90% of her body and is not expected to survive. No atheist decreed it was OK to kill the owners of Satellite […]

I’ve always loved explosions. Some of my fondest childhood memories involve blowing things up, sometimes with commercial fireworks, sometimes with homemade fireworks, sometimes just by misusing common devices and/or chemicals. (Back then, there were real chemicals in chemistry sets.) If you’re a male you know exactly what I’m talking about. Back when I did movie […]

New York City Mayor, Uber-nanny and full time scumbag Mike Bloomburg stood by term limits – until they would have affected him. He put hundreds of venues and thousands of employees out of business with a smoking ban. Then he went after restaurant menus. But two terms hasn’t been long enough enough to suck the […]