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https://youtu.be/1CLhqjOzoyE Time to celebrate. Break out the bubbly, the cheese & crackers, turn on the game, crack open that can of rice beer. And what is it we celebrate? Well. What is about to happen, dear worst-reader, is more than just a new year. To (y)our joy this is a year just like the last and …
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Anti-theist. There. I said it. (Pause.) It's who I am. The only problem is I don't feel any better by having said it. I mean, it's obviously not the same as coming out as gay or purple or a hetero who likes pink. But my therapist said that by going public with it, it will help …
Don't worry, dear worst-reader. We all have too much time on our hands--especially during this time of year. The fact that I'm projecting my (too much) time on others in this manner is yet another indication that the transition from industrial age > technical servitude is almost complete. The good thing? It's just a blog. …
Schadenfreude is not my thing. Nor do I wish any one ill-will. Live and let others live better--that's my motto. But there are times, moments, where I giggle and smirk at the goings and cummings of my beloved #americant and of those still trapped in all (her) confused greed-dollar-tendrils. On the other hand, of course, I …
It's not about being a bitter old man. It's not about happiness or tranquility. It's not about a xmas tree making one smile or cry--depending on the xmas tree topper. Indeed. This is a time of year to rejoice--but NOT in what you think. As I celebrate my own personal war on xmas, I do so …
Disclaimer: some small spoilers but no big spoilers. And so it is done. And now that it's done, I've been thinking about how to worst-write about it. Here's what I've come up with so far: It was good but... Liked it except for... Getting too old, seen too many movies, been there done that (in 70s!)... Guess …
Pros: Force touch rocks even though I'm only using it to get to a cursor in order to edit text! Boy, do I dig this! Speed is ok, obviously a bump from my old 4s. But I actually thought about putting this in the cons. It's just not that impressive. The speed of the fingerprint reader is …
Disclaimer: Names and some of the issues discussed but not places referred to have been changed in this blogpost to protect the innocent. §I told him right before we exited the plane at the terminal in PHL that I found our open and at times heavy inflight conversation fascinating. And then I thanked him with as …
Depending on circumstance, I can get away with wifi usage on my phone when I enter the US. On the drive from PHL to Eastern Shore MD there are a few places one can stop to get a cup of earl grey, yawn from the transatlantic flight and check messages. And since the powers that …
Going for broke. Travel broke. Just one more trip. Trip to take me away. Away from what? Xmas? Responsibility? Btw, this is the first time I'll be without my better-half on Xmas since she took me in and became my better half twelve years ago. And I'm sad about that. But when families are stretched …
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The first time I ever heard someone use the term "welfare queens" was when that dirty uncle was visiting for Thanksgiving dinner. You know the conversation that eventually rears its head at a such a family gathering. You not only got your lefts and your rights but you also got your ugly faces and morons--all stuffing …
Got caught in a rut the other night while trying to find my new girlfriend who is named Sleep. A heroic bitch she is and I don't know if my love for her is worth the effort. For as we all know love is an effort. For example, how many kisses have you wasted on …
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Well, there you have it. Finally, after all these years--almost thirty years to be exact--a human female makes the big cover, the big issue. Time magazine has chosen its "person" of the year. Now. During such an occasion other (privileged) humans can see who/what... a human female that runs a really, really, really big corporation actually looks …
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Multiple monitors inject (their) information into my brain every morning. The fun usually begins before six a.m. but on this particular morn it began at five. The information, of course, is the freak-show known as (the current iteration of the grand social, national, greed-show) #americant. Most of this information comes to me in the form …
Today is a day of oxymorons, dear worst-reader. We have US Intelligence and Too Dumb. Or it's a day of dumb rearing its true face and what we see is Kim Kardashian's left tit superimposed on the red, white and blue which is also superimposed on a xmas tree that has just exploded out of a sewer system …
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