An Armadillo named Armando |
There's a tool shed in my backyard about the size and shape of a typical outhouse. We no longer have use for the outhouse around here, typical or otherwise, since we discovered the miracle of indoor ...
Posted by on Sat, 16 May 2009 22:18:00 GMT |
The Folly of Optimism |
Optimism is the folly of insisting all is well when it is not.Several years ago, two optimists in south Chicago thought it would be a good idea to hold up a working-man's tavern on the North Side. In...
Posted by on Thu, 14 May 2009 18:13:00 GMT |
Anarchy in West Virginia |
The greatest threat to individual freedom is an efficient bureaucracy.However, government is a necessary evil.If everyone took responsibility for their own behavior and cooperated on the basis of tru...
Posted by on Sat, 09 May 2009 18:43:00 GMT |
Circus Days |
Many moons ago, my family lived at the edge of a small town in Wisconsin. I was nine and my brother was six. We spent most of our time climbing trees and trying to figure out what to do with the rest ...
Posted by on Wed, 06 May 2009 12:40:00 GMT |
Synchronicity |
A synchronicity is a meaningful coincidence of events that are not connected, often involving a metaphysical overtone. It's a psychically conditioned relativity of time and space.For example, I was fi...
Posted by on Sun, 03 May 2009 12:56:00 GMT |
A Dark and Stormy Night |
Time is fleeting and thoughts are slippery. Sometimes the desire to add meaning to life by splattering sequences of words onto paper is overwhelming. Certain people, often blessed with a robust imagin...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:15:00 GMT |
Origin of the Species |
Ocean voyages tended to be melancholy undertakings in ancient times. In 1830, the captain of a British naval survey ship, the HMS Beagle, put a bullet in his head during a period of intense gloom.The ...
Posted by on Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:00:00 GMT |
The Scent of Human Feet |
The Ig Nobel Prize is an award given for "science achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think." The sixteenth annual Ig Nobel Prize event at Harvard University was organized by...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:26:00 GMT |
Islamic Insanity |
On April 13, 2009, two young lovers attempting to elope were shot to death by a firing squad during a public execution outside a mosque in southern Afghanistan. Abdul Aziz, 21, and Gul Pecha, 19, had...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:31:00 GMT |
Marilyn Monroe Returns |
In April of 2007, I wrote a newspaper column about a woman in Toronto named Sherrie Lea Laird who had been deemed to be the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe by a psychiatrist who specialized in hypnot...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:08:00 GMT |
