I’ve often thought we, as people, have gotten it all wrong. We celebrate the dawn of a new year in winter, when it’s uncomfortably cold outside and everyone is still weighed down and tuckered out from the ‘old’ year, having eaten too many sugar cookies, assembled too many astonishingly complex playthings, and amassed too much […]

I’m not really entrenched in the whole Heath Ledger is DEAD! Details at 10! thing. I haven’t been to a candlelight vigil or participated in a Facebook prayer circle or whatever else has been coordinated to pay homage to the recently expired actor; I imagine there’s probably a gigantic greeting card made out of plywood […]

I don’t exactly know what to say, and I guess The Boy said it best of all when electing to hold off our New Year celebration until way past midnight, to make sure 2007 was really, really for real gone and done with:
This has just been a very fucked up year.
Oh ye-ess brothuh, I agree! […]

I was initially a little hesitant about the whole “Pluto is not a planet” thing when it came about last year. I felt a twinge of betrayal because now the little pneumatic devices of childhood were useless to me, and also I felt kind of bad for the tiny little spot I’d only seen done […]

You know, when I wished for something to distract the rabid masses away from the whole Imus is a sexist, racist meanie-facie thing, I didn’t really envision a sanguinary scene involving a bunch of dead coeds but, suffice to say; I guess this has definitely created a change in the tide. I’m sure the NAACP […]