I’ll be brief (for once). Gender identity has become a huge issue in American society, a much bigger issue than it is in, say Haiti or Sudan or Iraq. As I understand it (although I don’t, and never will), a man that wants to be a woman is a trans-female. I think that I have … Read more
What ever happened to the once-popular notion of the customer always being right? That shit went out the door around 2004, didn’t it? Think about some iconic store from some hazy year in the early-20th century. Sears. You bought one of them newfangled refrigimerators that magically keep your food cold at Sears on your last … Read more
I read an article clearly written by a Millennial earlier today, which taught me a new internet acronym, IRL. The internet is as bad as the military in its overuse of acronyms, but unlike the military, apparently everyone under the age of thirty-five not only knows the meanings of these, but uses them online, and … Read more
I’m a tube sock guy. A proud tube sock guy. A relentless proponent of the tube sock. Maybe I’m just somewhat nostalgically stuck in the tube sock-laden era of my youth, the 1980’s, but I think my abiding love for the tube sock goes far beyond that. Tube socks are true, full and honest footunderwear … Read more
Even the fear-mongering Powers That Be, the very folks who brought us The Pandemic in the first place, by now have to begrudgingly admit that their experiment in fear and control is, at long last, over. Done. Finito. Sure, they keep trying to get us to buy into the new notion their magical “vaccines” are … Read more
I am renovating some rentals necessitating constant visits to Lowe’s and Home Depot. They should make me an honorary 1 percent owner for what I have spent there over the years. I walked into Lowe’s and was alarmed to see my face on a screen with a neat square framing it and the sound of a … Read more
So many news stories these days, on the lefty-side of our weird bifurcated information landscape, are about The First ____ to serve as ____ in American history. It’s usually a racial or sexual orientation thing, like the first Asian postmaster of the state of West Virginia, the first time Colorado has elected an openly gay governor, … Read more
Aren’t they just as dumb as teenagers have always been? First off, let me state the inescapable fact that I, too, was a moron when I was a teenager. I was just as rigidly righteous, just as stupidly savvy, and just as annoyingly arrogant as these Gen-Z morons…but back then the world didn’t care. The … Read more
…Or So I Argued to an Unnecessarily-Defensive Buddhist the Other Night I had the beginnings of a decent conversation with an argumentative white California Buddhist the other night at the Intermission of a local cabaret. I’ve had versions of this debate before, but twenty years ago I basically argued his point, and now I find … Read more
We were on a fishing trip at Cape Canaveral. Arriving a day before the deep sea trip we went to Jetty Park where my husband and nephew could do some shore fishing. As we rounded a bend we came upon the astonishing sight of a docked giant skyscraper cruise ship. I had never seen one … Read more