The Cognitive Dissonance of Sports Fandom So this is the second installment of my reaction to Curt Schilling’s recent firing by ESPN for an insensitive Facebook post Schilling made about transgenders in the wake of the new North Carolina bathroom law requiring that people use the bathroom corresponding to the gender delineation from their birth […]
How Public Outrage Killed Free Speech
How Public Outrage Killed Free Speech As I was driving around town this morning, two important news stories came across the radio (yes, I still listen to old fashioned commercial radio when driving). I had already been working on a blog this week centered around my love affair with the comma, but immediately knew that […]
How Internet Anonymity Created a Legion of Jerkbags
Let me start my diatribe this week by taking a moment to thank all of you for taking the time to read this nonsensical drivel. Seriously, when I go over the analytics to see how many people read TRUTH: IN 1000 WORDS or LESS each Tuesday and Friday, I am consistently amazed. Recently, the numbers […]
Election 2016: Giant Douche or Turd Sandwich
Election 2016: Giant Douche or Turd Sandwich? How did we come to this America? Is there anybody out there that really believes that this shit show of an election was what the founding father’s had in mind when they penned the Constitution? I’ve read it from beginning to end, even quite carefully a couple of […]
Is UCONN Bad for Women’s Basketball?
Is UCONN Bad for Women’s Basketball? You know what I’m not watching right now, even though I love sports and hail from the otherwise unnoteworthy state of Connecticut? That’s right, I just cannot bring myself to watching the women’s NCAA basketball championship, a certain victory for the University of Connecticut and yet one of the more […]
Your Kid Doesn’t Need a Damn Cellphone
Your Kid Doesn’t Need A Damn Cellphone I almost always laugh at the response I get when I tell people I am an only child. Folks usually just give me one top-to-bottom glance and suggest in a nonchalant voice, “Huh, I should have figured.” What is it that marks me so obviously as the byproduct […]
The Road Less Travelled, My Ass…
Made All the Difference, My Ass Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. We all know the Robert Frost poem, so much so that I didn’t even feel particularly compelled to cite the author or the title above. You don’t […]
A TOUGH PILL TO SWALLOW
A Tough Pill to Swallow This may or may not be a shock to many of you, but one of my best friends is a drug dealer. No, he does not have a meth lab or marijuana grow room down in his basement, at least not that I know of. No, he does not sit […]
How Dr. Seuss Killed my Childhood
Dr. Seuss was a genius, you’ll hear that a lot, But write just for children he surely did not. His birthday we know was sometime last week, So at his words and his life we should take a peek. Even adults can find some truth in his rhymes And his message was often ahead of […]
Things My Kids Will Never Know….
Things My Kids Will Never Know…. Do you how you know you’re getting old? You write an online blog that is highly successful amongst the key buying demographic for most American broadcasters (read as: people with the money and who actually spend it, i.e 40-60 year olds), largely because you generally come off as […]