Teachers: A Rant

I’ve been working for the public school system for the past six months. It’s not a bad gig. The building had BEEN an elementary school, so the urinals are about knee-level; but, I do get the security of working in a building meant to be a fallout shelter. It looks a lot like my elementary […]

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Laughing Gas: A Brief History

Nitrous Oxide was first synthesized by British chemist Joseph Priestley in 1772 as a possible means of keeping the Irish population in check or as a substitute for birds, I forget which. He found that inhaling the gas produced euphoria and giddiness… the same emotions one feels after running over a corporate lawyer and then […]

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Signs That You are Too Passive

You marry the only woman who doesn’t spray you with mace when you introduce yourself. ♦ You say everything in the passive tense such as “My project got screwed up” instead of the more active, “That guy who doesn’t speak much English screwed my project up” ♦ You see everything that happens to you as […]

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