DISCLOSURE: I’ve kicked ass on every standardized test I’ve taken, and reading comprehension was my strong suit. Also, I produced the “Dilbert” cartoon series in 1999. Scott Adams has a blog, a really weird, bad blog. In March, Jezebel reported on one of the Dilbert creator’s posts – a withdrawn-but-not-retracted, reposted-with-caveat, pathetic misogynist-rant over the […]
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Maybe it’s the idea of the soap opera that I’ll mourn more than the soap opera themselves. By design, the basest form of television escapism – poor production value, hammy acting, preposterous storylines. At one point in my teenage life I watched All My Children, I think because it took presumably took place on Philadelphia’s […]
In 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. joined a group of 1300 city sanitation workers, civil rights leaders, the faith community and worker’s unions march for economic justice in Memphis. Together, they faced all who sought to suppress their free speech that day. They won the moral battle, and the following day, April 4th, 1968, Dr. […]
The greatest starting pitchers had at least one Unfair pitch, maybe two. Some great pitchers, like Whitey Ford and Spahn, never had an Unfair pitch but an assortment of excellent pitches instead. The game has changed a lot since those days. But, as one pitching coach has said, “the game never changes to help pitchers.” That’s […]
Home from work on a mental health day, I’m having the misfortune of seeing Indiana US Representative/Silverback Gorilla Mike Pence hooting about the paltry ($6 billion) budget impasse that they will SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT OVER. The House GOP – made up of litters of like-minded chimps elected last fall via Tea Party support – is […]
Police and onlookers look on in helpless horror at jumping factory workers Thinking about The Triangle Factory Shirtwaist fire is hard. It’s not easy to deflect the images of the images of the young women leaping or dropping from windows, their skirt hems aflame. Harder still is accepting the abjection that has eroded the souls […]
Snopes.com: “The definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation”. Snopesed (verb), Snopsing (noun) Derivation: the online urban legend reference site: Snopes.com where you plug in keywords to reveal basic fallacies and/or half-truths inherent in a forwarded email. Usage: to indicate the validity of a suspect story: “It sounds fake. You should […]
Beware lip balm. Most are terrible, some purposefully addictive as to make lips worse, some delicious but out of fashion, i.e. Dr. Pepper by Lip Smackers. The world’s best Lippen-pfflegestift is from German company, Effol, founded in 1906 to provide healing and hoof ointment for the agricultural community, for which horses were the backbone. Not cheap […]