In my last post, I wrote about the things that annoy me. It took about fifteen minutes to write. And I could have gone beyond one hundred. But I need to show the reader (if there are any) that I am not a pessimistic sort. So here are the...
Life
100 Things that Annoy Me
Here are 100 things that can put me in a bad mood quickly. They are in no particular order. The word “dude”. People who end their sentences with a preposition. My ex-wife. Pigeons. People who forget their passwords. Drunk people. Stoned people. People who don’t take responsibility. Divas. Dirty...
Best Time of the Year
Labor day. The last Monday of summer. For most, the worst day of the year. Not for me. For me, Labor Day starts the best time of the year (for me at least). Let’s go over why the end of summer rocks. Off to School The kids have to...
Don’t Sweat the Little Things
I read this story on Facebook. I am going off of memory so I apologize to the writer: A philosophy professor walks into his packed class. All the students stare at him intently. He reaches under his desk and pulls out a large pickle jar and sets it on...
Bullying: The Amanda Todd Dilemma
Last week, I read a sad story about a Canadian high school sophomore who had been bullied for years to the point she committed suicide. She told her story through a gut wrenching YouTube video just five weeks before killing herself. I will not go over her story since she...
Book Review: The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore
Leave common sense at the door, it is time for more Christopher Moore. His book, “Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove” makes the “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” seem like a Nobel Prize winning physics thesis. The book shows what happens when a pot smoking sheriff, an insane B-movie actress,...
September Review
September is in the books. And, even though the month moved quickly, nothing much happened. Suffered from some heavy depression. Only three more months before I lose my job and that fact hit me hard. Many of the good friends that I have made in the last seven years...
Movie Review: Cabin in the Woods
So, is it a horror, dark comedy or science fiction. Well, yes…and no. When someone recommended Cabin in the Woods, she said she could not give me any information about the movie. All she would tell me is that it would be the most bizarre movie I have seen in...
Karma Rocks
I recieved a text tonight from my son. He said he will be starting aat outside linebacker in his next football game. Needless to say, he was exceited. See, all year he had been on the bench. He used his sparce time to play as hard as he could....
Recognizing and Protecting Against the Supression of Free Speech
Many believe that the end of free speech is done through the government implementing laws that will make it illegal to say things against the government or against what the government promotes. Sure, we do see a lot of that in places like Russia, Venezuela, Cuba and the Muslim...