This morning I woke up feeling like crap. Inexplicably confused about the time change, I left for work too early, so I stopped at Rite Aid, across from my office in search of an over-the-counter remedy for what ailed me: malaise, hazy-head, ennui. I roamed through the aisles and eventually did find that antidote, just […]
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Post Secession Texas Oh say can you see an America without Texas? Yes. I think I can! The Texas Nationalist Movement marked Texas Independence Day with a rally on Saturday at the Capitol urging Texans to save the state by seceding from the United States. It’s sad to think there was once a tradition in Texas […]
When 77 year old Sarasota hedge fund manager Arthur Nadel left a disingenuous suicide note and went on the lam for two weeks before his arrest in 2010, he drove off grid in a pale green 2006 Subaru with fine leather interior. That Subaru was put on eBay with a “getaway car” label, hoping to […]
“Breathing a vein”, Bloodletting, Phlebotomy: drawing copious amounts of blood  – that pesky “extra” blood buildup – by having an artery punctured with a lancet, the blood gushing like a geyser into a bowl. From Rick Ungars Policy Page posted on Forbes, 1/17/11.  Etchings by James Gillray, 1804 The ink was barely dry on the […]
Daily Kos reported that on December 21, 1989, Vice President Dan “You say potato, I say potato” Quayle sent out 30,000 Christmas cards that said: “May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world.” My spellchecker didn’t even flag the word when I typed it—I just got a pop-up box that […]
In Robin Hood Yogi (1959), background designer Art Lozzi makes Jellystone look like a tropical paradise.
The year was 2000, the final, halcyon days of the Internet boom, and the St. Louis Rams played the Tennessee Titans in the Super Bowl, a moment that will be forever remembered as the tech bubble’s Waterloo. Take ego-rich 20-year-old CEOs, gravity-defiant stock prices, confused consumers, revolutionary technologies and half-baked business plans, give all the Doogie […]