Category Archives: Rants ‘n’ Whines

If you are not a regular listener of This American Life, you should be. After hearing the March 28 episode entitled The Audacity of Government, I think that the following words need to have the dust blown off them and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Lawrence Lessig is a professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder and CEO of the Creative Commons and a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. I highly respect his opinion in matters of free speech and freedom … Continue reading → Continue reading →

One thing that bugs the hell out of me when the health care “debate” gets going is the knee-jerk reaction that if it’s a government program it obviously will suck. The government has never gotten anything right, don’tcha know. Just … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Ack. I’m utterly conflicted about the impending return of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report tonight. On the one hand, I have missed them so much and, like it or not, they have become the main source of common … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There isn’t much of a chance in hell that I’d vote for any of the Republican candidates, but I really, really, really don’t want Hillary Clinton to get the Democratic nomination. It’s bad enough that she’s about the worst politician … Continue reading → Continue reading →

…it’s the fucking heat! Either society needs to adopt a rule where we all stop mowing our lawns in August and just accept our neighbor’s hay field, or I need to be a bigger rebel and not give a crap … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I know this shouldn’t bother me. It’s just random shit pouring out of the gaping maw of a doomed-to-failure presidential candidate. But when Tom Tancredo goes around saying that we should bomb Mecca and other Muslim holy sites, it makes … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I understand that when there is a thunderstorm there will be flight delays. So, please, don’t sit there and keep flashing that my plane is on time. It’s 10 minutes until scheduled departure, and I can see that it’s not … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m a big ole lefty with the requisite guilt complex about my role in destroying the environment (not enough to actually do much about it, mind you, but I’m surely not alone in that). Anywho, as one little nod to … Continue reading → Continue reading →