Love Before Birth Control

Before the invention of the birth-control pill, marriage was a predictable affair: A man would marry a woman and she would give birth to children until it killed her; then, the man would find another woman and the cycle would continue. Most second marriages were a race between the woman dying from childbirth and the […]

One of My Typical Rants

“If if’s and buts were candy and nuts, it would be Christmas every day of the year”. Parents used to say that to their children, among other things… like, “Have a nice day working in the coal mine, Kevin” or “Sorry I sold you into slavery”. It basically means don’t dwell on the way things […]

Time and Tide

Would you buy a bottle of Tide if you didn’t know where it came from? I ask this question, not to determine the degree to which your moral compass has been degaussed, but to determine the validity of reports that Tide detergent is being stolen in record quantities. The story is spreading across the internet […]

Son of Random Thoughts: The Random Thoughtening

I’ve watched three dozen Fiona Apple videos in a row. Now, everyone I see looks fat… It occurred to me that, if I went to my grave, never knowing what a “causeway” is, it wouldn’t affect the quality of my life at all… No one ever got broke appealing to the lowest common denominator… except […]

Lessons Learned from The Crow

During their off hours, criminals engage in spirited bullet-eating contests. Heroin addicts think birds are funny. Each engagement ring is a life… a life THEY helped destroy. I’m not referring to the scene in the pawn shop. Just venting… If they’d buried Eric Draven upside down, he’d be digging halfway to China about now. Criminal […]