This weekend, our minivan had some much-needed maintenance work done – a tune-up, oil-change, greasing the rear-end assembly (I always get a laugh out of that, like a Beavis & Butthead wannabe (though I loathed that show)). Had the vacuum-lines, which have been a problem since we bought the old beast last year, put [...]

Does it disturb you that we now have about as many lawyers in the United States as we do long-term residents of our prisons? I’m sure this says something about us, but not entirely sure what.
Source: Opinion Journal

I am not a wealthy man. Cue the music from Fiddler on the Roof if you like – after all, most of us would like more, at least a small amount. I’m not exactly jonesin’ for a Powerball win, but a little extra goes a long way. There is food to buy. [...]

You wanna know what ticks me off? No? I’ll tell you anyhow.
What really nips me in the num-nums is that I can’t seem to write in my own voice. I mean, read the posts I’ve made prior to this. Heck even the end of that last sentence – “prior to this”? [...]

I am trying to understand writer’s block.
As a writer, I have experienced dry times, down times, slow times, and times when you can’t even get the engine to turn over. I’ve been through valleys and over mountains and swam the wide, wide rivers of the imagination, and then wandered across the burning deserts where [...]

With Bob Hyatt raising the money for a new Macbook over the last few weeks, I’ve been keeping my eye on the things – and I spy with my little eye a couple nifty items.
First off is Parallels, an application that allows Mac users to run other operating systems from the OSX desktop at near [...]

Al Gore’s new movie, The Inconvenient Truth, is in the theaters now, and liberals, treehuggers, and disciples of The Way of Clinton are absolutely eating it up. But the truth behind this “Truth” is that it’s all based on a lie – the lie of global warming and the destructive effects we, human beings, [...]

Bumping this to the top…
My sister-in-law pointed out this game today on her site. I had played it a couple years back and didn’t have any trouble getting past the 20-second mark in the first few tries. Today, however, I seem a bit slow. Most of my attempts scored in the 15-second [...]

I’ve been a gamer most of my life. It started when I was young, with card games like Go Fish and Old Maid, and worked its way into Monopoly and Aggrevation. Somewhere around fourth grade I was introduced to role-playing games with Dungeons & Dragons and Star Frontiers. I especially enjoyed the [...]