America, Home of the Selfish You know what, folks? I take it all back. All that stuff I’ve said for years now about how Donald Trump did not represent the values of this country- yeah, I was simply wrong. Now, this column is not about that bloviating warthog, but I think it imperative at this […]
Everybody’s a Tourist Somewhere Sometimes living in a resort town just plain sucks. The people who vacation here, especially those that hail from the “Great State of Texas” (or so they would boorishly tell you) are often rude, belligerent, ignorant, and downright oblivious. They do such stupid things sometimes that I often find myself shaking […]
It’s a Wage Shortage not a Labor Shortage Oftentimes, life feels like one giant, swift kick to the nuts. And then, right at the moment you pick yourself back up and shake off the agonizing pain with a series of slow, deliberate breaths and straighten yourself to full height, life comes along and plants another […]
Stopped in Her Tracks Have you ever wondered who the people are that make up the International Olympics Committee (IOC)? When I learned earlier this week of the suspension of American sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson for violating the organization’s drug policy, I began to wonder just what qualifications people had to have to be granted consideration […]
The Joys of Being Naked I must admit that, much to the consternation of many of my friends, I enjoy being naked. I’m not talking about streaking wildly across campus like Will Ferrell in Old School, though that does have a delightfully adventurous ring to it, even as the words pass across my 50-year old […]
Paid to Play In this ever-contentious world of modern ideological and political warfare, it is nearly impossible to get nine people to agree on just about anything. I mean, shit, if you grab nine people out of a random crowd at Disneyworld and ask all of them if they like ice cream, you know there’s […]
Determining Right from Wrong in a Godless World It was Voltaire who once wrote “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.” Often misunderstood and misrepresented as an ironic quip intended to undercut the existence of God by posing His existence in the hypothetical subjunctive mood (Suck it, grammar nerds!), it […]
Joe Manchin is a DINOsaur: Democrat in Name Only Do you remember when you used to believe in Santa Claus? The Easter Bunny? The Tooth Fairy? Republicans with integrity? Those were blissful years, weren’t they? But then you grew up and realized that Santa is but a myth your parents told you to make you […]
I am not a big dude. Clocking in at a modest 5’8” tall and a hardly robust 160 lbs., I know that there are many folks out there, including many women, that weigh considerably more than I do. And I am ok with that. After all, when it comes to a night out on the […]
Vaxed, Waxed, and Relaxed, Baby Vaccinated and it feels so good…. Oh yeah, that’s right, America! Thanks to the success of three effective Covid vaccines, we are beginning to see signs of normalcy popping up all around us, like Spring blossoms pushing their way through the latent soil. With 37.8% of the population fully vaccinated […]
