"No matter how cynical I get, I can’t keep up.” — Lily Tomlin
“Remember the couple from England who were here last month? I took them on a hike to the ruins of the Japanese internment camp on Mount Lemmon.” “There was a Japanese internment camp on Mount Lemmon?” That’s how the conversation went, me being the dummy who didn’t know about the camp. I’ve lived at the […]
When people say they want the homeless problem to go away, I wonder if they know what they’re really asking for.
People have always gone in for public shaming, but social media makes it happen a lot quicker. Crack wise at breakfast, and by lunch you’re in the town square, squirming in the stocks.
“It was true that our hearts were swollen, our muscles were failing, our kidneys, stomachs, and other internal organs were not doing their jobs properly, our blood was too thick and ready to spawn embolisms, our red blood cells were doing without the oxygen they needed, and our brains were oxygen starved and running like […]
Some subjects are so radioactive whoever touches them throws up, goes bald, and dies.
… most atheists are not like that, and there are a lot of us. I think there are more of us than anyone knows. One reason for that is that few of us go out of our way to advertise it.
Everybody has fetishes. Me too. Not stilettos, despite the graphic (hey, you try searching for “bag of fetish” and see how many options Google Images gives you), but one fetish I’ll admit to is aircraft engines, especially the round reciprocating kind. I find them irresistibly sexy. Aviators who’ve flown behind radials and had to wipe […]
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring news about censorship and book banning. Honestly, I don’t know what this article is trying to say. It has something to do with censoring school science textbooks, but it seems to be anti-evolution and anti-creationism at the same time. And what do Rush Limbaugh’s attitudes toward sea […]