FOX 13 News The shooting this afternoon at a movie theater not too far from Tampa is using an extreme solution on a trivial problem, but on a theoretical level I can relate: I just went to the movies Friday night, and sitting next to me were four or five teenagers who talked, texted, took screen shots of the movie …
I HATE MONDAY
Hard to believe this was twenty years ago today. Who would have thought figure skating could become such a sordid world?
I Hate Monday
In the grand scheme of things this is no big deal, but it’s still quite puzzling: was everybody sick the day our teachers covered words like your/you’re, whose/who’s, to/too, its/it’s, and there/their/they’re? As we all know, e-mails, Facebook, tweets and their ilk are the world’s greatest repository of quickly-written, unproofed thoughts. “Everyone who has never posted an egregious typo in …
I HATE MONDAY
Know what I really hate? People who victimize children. This happens far more than it should – because once would be too often – and often occurs when couples are divorcing or separating. The children become innocent pawns in the power struggle between two warring parties. It can get ugly. How ugly? We’re just a few days shy of the …
I Hate Monday
Do you ever stop to think how rare imagination sometimes is? Even our everyday conversations are often hijacked by meaningless “all purpose” words. Is everything really “awesome”? All I can say is whatever. The map below shows an example that I found to be quite surprising. (Next to the year is the top name of that year. The map shows …
I Hate Monday
Sometimes I hate it when there’s an eerie resemblance between Hollywood and real life.
I Hate Monday
I opened my browser this morning and the news feed had this in its list of headlines: “Crouch Dies.” Who is that, I wondered, and clicked on the link. Turns out Paul Crouch was a televangelist and head of TBN, the Trinity Broadcast Network. Oh, that reminds me: I HATE TELEVANGELISTS. I despise these people. I loathe them. I clicked …
I Hate Monday
We stand at the brink of the mayhem of Shopping Season. Speaking as a person who’s married to someone who works in retail, I can tell you the average retail worker would like EVERY shopper to read EVERY word that follows. not that it will probably do any good. If you can’t read them all, perhaps #2 and #14 are …
I Hate Monday
We can put a man on the moon, but we can’t make a carton that opens easily? Come on, man. Notice the freshness notice: Not within 7 days of date stamped, let’s say, but “within 7 days of opening.” Which could take awhile.
I Hate Monday
I hate security cameras – sort of. Actually, I appreciate what they represent: a deterrent to crime and general mayhem. People are less likely to commit either when they know their face can be plastered across the 6 o’clock news, leading to their identification, arrest, conviction, and incarceration. And if they ignore all that and commit the crime anyway, well, …