I’ve mostly quit opening the door to anyone selling anything except neighborhood children. (Nice misplaced modifier. Hey Bo, you mean that you’ll only open the door to people selling neighborhood children? Heh.) That closed-door policy is a result of a final-straw encounter with the magazine gypsies I wrote about before. If you ring my doorbell [...]
Jan 012012
January 1, new beginning, blah, blah, blah. I’m not feeling very profound today. Or maybe I am. Depends on your perspective, I guess. The mood I am not in is one in which I self-flagellate for three or four paragraphs on all of the heinous mistakes I made in 2011, then make grandiose pronouncements of [...]
Dec 202011
Have a few. Find one on the basis of which you can call me a great American or a horrible SOB, then do so: Did we have this many debates last time? I’m kind of glad that stage is over. I’m ready for my dripping contempt of Barack Obama to have a face. The correct [...]
As much as I like Ron Paul, the two of us are never more out of step than when he tries to justify his foreign policy approach. I think he damaged himself significantly on this count in last night’s debate. Paul’s position is essentially that the United States has enemies in the Middle East because [...]
Dec 092011
Sore throat and a stinging left eye. Figure that out. General run-downness feels viral. Wow, I really need to stop licking doorknobs. I enjoyed Super 8, though I was disappointed in how simplistic some aspects of it were. It could have used a bit more subtlety in places. Then I watched The Final Countdown, which [...]
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