Society

After Barack Obama’s election, one of the jokes that I most frequently made was…

“After the next 8 years of unqualified success, I will still somehow run for and be elected president to succeed his two already wonderful terms.”

This is to make light of the fact that even before the election was final, the general American Idol opinion was that [...]

NSFW: NOT SAFE FOR WORK

Perhaps not the above video – though probably – but certainly the below links. Tread carefully dear visitor…

I have thought dirtier thoughts and imagined things far more offensive, but none have ever made it to mainstream air.

That is to say that [...]

Inauguration Day…

…an emotional day.

Indeed…

Let us let it cloud our judgment of the president…his government…and their actions. Distracted and empowered by the horrors of the preceding King, and warmed by the kind, moral words of a forceful, confident tone…an authority that has to…just has to be true…and therefore we, just and right [...]

I never wanted to be a prizefighter. No aspirations…whatsoever.

But I should have known there would be no other course for me, but to be forced into that live-bait role…walking less than a block from my apartment on my way to the Laundr-O-Mat. Its just common sense…

“You gotta keep your head up!”

I spit out a spiraling wad of flem and gauze, [...]