If it were “Turkey Day” we would be holding the giant birds in great esteem, praising them for their accomplishments. It would be like Veterans day for birds.
Stop calling it Turkey Day.
Turkeys are dumb, ugly birds. Their only value is as food. Give thanks if you find yourself parked next to a steaming plate of […]

I have an old Nintendo Gamecube sitting around collecting dust. Since I also happen to have a Nintendo Wii sitting around collecting dust I have no need for the Gamecube (the Wii plays all the old games.)
So I put an ad up on Craigslist. I’ll let the whole package (cables, controller, memory card , etc) […]

Sometimes I wonder how often people actually pause to think about what they’re doing. Actually, that’s a lie. I don’t wonder about that at all because I know for a fact that most people don’t.
Take Fiji brand bottled water, for example. It’s bottled in Fiji, loaded onto a big ass boat and shipped here where […]

I’m well aware that Europeans generally work fewer hours and get more vacation time than American workers but this still ruined my morning.
This morning I was in a teleconference with a whole group of scientists collaborating on a project. Some of the scientists are in Europe. The meeting was in the morning central time to […]

I had prepared a fairly nasty article about smoking in America. I was in a foul mood when I conceived of the concept for the article (It was right at the tail end of a slooooow evening commute) and it’s so negative that it probably would have offended the family and friends of smokers, to […]

For a child, the arrival of a package filled with Styrofoam packing peanuts is a joyous occasion. No matter how many toys they have they’ll still take pleasure in playing with the box and peanuts for awhile. Their parents will scold them because the peanuts make a complete mess but they’ll often allow it just […]

When I was in elementary school there were two kinds of cheaters: The kids who needed to cheat because they were lazy or just plain dumb and the kids who were bright enough to pass everything without trying very hard. Notice that I said “two kinds of cheaters.” I was in the latter group and […]

Of course I’m not talking about my own failure because I’m infallible and I never fail at anything. Today I’m aiming at the failure of others, namely the vast crowd of teachers and coaches I’ve had to endure over the years.
In the 80’s I played baseball through the local park district. You probably know the […]

A digg story about a drunken German man who ended up in a hospital maternity ward tipped me off to this. The drunk’s situation is hilarious but it informed me of the existence of “baby boxes” in Europe.

Hundreds of babies have been deposited in the boxes, set up across Germany and Austria, since the […]

I’ve gotten this story from a couple different sources. The first time I heard about it was from the primary source, that is to say the man who was beaten. His name is Edward White and he was interviewed on a morning radio show here in Chicago. He states that himself and his wife were […]