They Will Rise Again From the Tundra

There are too many stimuli and no way to unhook from the Delivery System. Every thirty seconds or so, TweetDeck chirps and notifies me that some Twitter entity or another has posted something to the web. Facebook is running and constantly updating itself with video, status updates, and one friend who is rebuking me [...]

There are few activities more masochistic than golf. The twisted nature of the sport has been covered all too well by golfers and comedians alike, so I will spare you the banal jokes. I’m in no mood for them after what happened this afternoon.

I’m not one of those people that plays golf [...]

The rants don’t come easily these days — at least not as easily as they once did — save for a few impromptu outbursts when something ruffles the feathers or playing the jester. Other than that, there is little to be said about current events. Things continue much as they always have [...]

I was stumbling around the internet when I happened across the full text of Gen. George Patton’s famous speech to the Third Army. My memory is a bit fuzzy, but up until about fifteen minutes ago, my only knowledge of this oratory marvel came from anecdotes and the film Patton starring George C. Scott. [...]

Easter isn’t exactly a day I relish in any capacity, and on this Easter Sunday, I am, perhaps, more irritable than usual. This patch on my arm is feeding nicotine into my bloodstream to the tune of 21 milligrams over a 24-hour period for the sixth day in a row with no telling how long [...]

An Iraqi court handed down a sentence today for Muntadhar al-Zeidi, the Iraqi journalist who became instantly famous worldwide for throwing his shoes at then-President George W. Bush back in January. Three years in prison. Three years to sit with his pejorative from that day ringing in his ears [...]

The week begins tomorrow. Back to the office and the choked highways. In spite of the suffocating monotony of the Chicago suburbs and my tortuous daily commute, it’s too minuscule to care in light of recent events, personal and political alike. I’ll steer clear of the personal aspects to spare you the boredom [...]

I think that’s a damn good quote. It’s catchy and true, and I’m friends with the man who said it. All good reasons that it’s been stuck in my head for a week or two.

There is a sad lining to these words, though [...]

I was going to spout out what was likely to be some tangential, disorganized rant about the perception of the middle/lower classes among politicians, most notably our presidential candidates. While I didn’t actually hear Sarah Palin’s “Joe Six-Pack” remark, I think the following article hits the nail on the head [...]

Things are looking gloomy as we rocket toward the end of the first decade in our new century, a fouler and more hopeless one than the last. An adherence to all the flawed -isms in the world has finally done us in, and if we cannot universally accept concepts like the possibility of human-accelerated global warming or the partial validity of evolutionary theory [...]