Does Facebook Know You Better Than Your Own Mother? Do you use the internet? Yeah, me too. Which is precisely why the recent revelations regarding data trolling and Russian hacking have me just about set to soil my knickers. This is some scary stuff, folks: worthy, I’d say, of yet another two part series in […]
Fed Up With All Those Hidden Fees
Fed Up With All Those Hidden Fees If you know me well, you know I hate to fly. I don’t mind the craziness of the airport, or having to stay seated for several hours at a time with little legroom, or even the loud children who always seem to have a propensity for banging the […]
There Must Be a Test for That
There Must Be a Test for That Well, the kids and I just got back from a week of Spring Break in the Black Hills of South Dakota, and for those of you who care, we had a lovely time, thank you very much. We visited Mt. Rushmore, walked through one of the world’s largest […]
Borne Back Ceaselessly Into the Past
Borne Back Ceaselessly Into the Past Like most people, I don’t check my mailbox much anymore. I mean, what’s the point? The only people who still use the U.S. Post Office to contact me are catalog shillers and ex-girlfriends, neither of whom I really have much interest in hearing from. But I also don’t necessarily […]
Quincy Jones Is One Bad Mammajamma
Quincy Jones Is One Bad Mammajamma I love characters. Having come in contact with so many different personalities over the course of my years in education, I have a distinct predilection for people who are truly unique, the type of people that wear their personas right on their coat sleeves and don’t give a rat’s […]
Might Elon Musk Save Us All?
Might Elon Musk Save Us All? My son is only eleven, but he already knows what car he wants when he turns sixteen: a Tesla convertible. Yeah right, kid- good luck with that one. Still, I have to sit back and appreciate his reasoning. You see, Elon Musk is something of a hero to him. […]
When Is Enough Enough?
When is Enough Enough? I like listening to other people, even when they are horribly, inconceivably misguided. I pride myself on truly hearing both sides of a debate, though I may be resolute in my position. I know that’s somewhat hard to believe coming from someone who writes an opinion column on a weekly basis, […]
Is This Really a Sport?
Is This Really a Sport? Well, not everything that comes around every four years is painful and repulsive. Unlike our presidential elections, which take place on a four year cycle but seem to be never-ending trials of endurance and suffering only to produce a “winner” that really seems more like the lesser of two evils, […]
Discrediting the Institutions
Discrediting the Institutions You would think that we would be used to this by now. You would think that by this point we would would have learned that every time you think the Trump administration has hit rock bottom, they pull some ridiculous nonsense you could not have even imagined and thus set the bar […]
But I Want It Now
But I Want It Now I am not a patient man. I was reminded of this fact recently when I started to teach my daughter how to play guitar. As I heard the distorted twangs that echoed from her instrument as she haphazardly attempted to strum a G chord, I was harkened back to my […]