All I See are Candidates: A Poem

I can’t vote for Joe Biden because he doesn’t seem like someone I could confide in. . I can’t vote for Kamala Harris because her old opinions on criminal justice might embarrass. . I won’t vote for Beta O’Rourke because he looks as if he eats his pizza with a fork. . I won’t vote […]

Thoughts as Random as Random can be, I Must Say

Oscar Wilde once said, “This wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. Either it goes or I do.”. He died shortly after saying that because that wallpaper had some pretty powerful friends. That feeling I used to have after getting laid is the same feeling I now get when I lay in a three […]

I Go Dark: Thoughts on Euthanasia

Fatalists have no problem with euthanasia because, if you are euthanized, that is when you were slated to die anyway… unless you weren’t, then you can’t… it’s really quite simple… total acceptance of everything that is happening to people who aren’t you. If you are Catholic, euthanasia is considered suicide and a deadly sin… so, […]

Dinner Party Advice from an Expert on Database Programming

When grilling outdoors, remember not to pierce the sausages or over-flip the burgers; or, you might ruin the inedible chunks of charcoal you’ll be serving. Themed dinner parties are fine but avoid unappetizing themes such as the Medici family, historical infections and typhus. How do you determine when to break out the good china? Think […]

This Day in History: October 22nd

On this day in 1964, Jean Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. He refused the award because he felt that literature was a tool of the bourgeois used against the masses. Sartre was known for views not so much controversial as they were jaw-droppingly surreal. His works Nausea, The Wall and […]