Cellular Degeneration |
I don't want to download music on my cell phone. I don't want to check NASDAQ or the New York Stock Exchange. I don't want to watch TV shows, make movies, pay bills, take crappy photos, play video gam...
Posted by Tal Bachman on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:25:00 PST |
Lone Star Falling |
People around the world have been watching the ongoing story of Texas's removal of 400-plus children from a Mormon fundamentalist polygamist compound like it was some kind of entertaining TV movie. Wh...
Posted by Tal Bachman on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:24:00 PST |
President John McCain, If I Didn’t Make It Obvious Enough |
A few posts ago, I wrote about the raging civil war within the Democratic Party. As I write, it is still going on, though with less intensity than before. Clinton appears to believe that something may...
Posted by Tal Bachman on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:22:00 PST |
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Lost Plot |
I saw the new Indiana Jones movie tonight...I don't know what my problem is. After all, this movie's probably getting great reviews. I've only come across one review so far (which was favourable), but...
Posted by Tal Bachman on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:19:00 PST |
Everything in the Entire World Causes Cancer |
Forget about making a list of suspected carcinogens - I'd like to know what items have not been labeled "carcinogenic" by one stupid study or another over the past thirty years. Why doesn't the entire...
Posted by Tal Bachman on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:17:00 PST |
Paul Harvey Turns Four Hundred and Twelve, and Other Random Thoughts |
Random Thought 1: It's funny - I still catch Paul Harvey now and again on the radio, just like I did ten years ago; and ten years before that; and ten years before that; and just like my parents did w...
Posted by Tal Bachman on Wed, 14 May 2008 11:20:00 PST |
Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory |
No matter what happens now, the 2008 election will probably always be my favorite. Why? Because it's the year in which the distasteful fruits of the founding philosophical seeds of the Democratic Part...
Posted by Tal Bachman on Wed, 14 May 2008 11:18:00 PST |
The Rocket’s Red Glare |
I don't really have much to say on this particular entry - I just wanted to post that title. (I wonder if anyone else has thought of that?)Let's say it's been a bad year for Roger "The Rocket" Clemens...
Posted by Tal Bachman on Wed, 14 May 2008 11:16:00 PST |
Prime Time Food |
If anyone had suggested twenty years ago that an assortment of food shows would one day regularly beat out sit-coms during prime TV view hours, they would have been thought insane. Everyone "knew" tha...
Posted by Tal Bachman on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:19:00 PST |
Stuck with the Canucks |
Last year, as another mediocre hockey season ended for the Vancouver Canucks, my then-thirteen-year-old son Ashton and I were driving somewhere. The car was silent for a few seconds, and then, out of ...
Posted by Tal Bachman on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:17:00 PST |
