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• when the food is gone, I’m eating you first (September 4, 2023)
• how to politely interact with lame attempts at “owning the libs” on social media (August 8, 2023)
• giving the new blog post idea generator a look-see (July 31, 2023)
• no sweat (a poem) (May 27, 2023)
• grow up, peter pan (a poem) (May 24, 2023)
• feeling nostalgic for independent video rental stores (May 5, 2023)
• so this guy offers to buy this girl a drink (May 4, 2023)
• internetspeak 101: research vs. in-depth research (May 1, 2023)
• MAGAs hoping to retake this nation in 2024 already threatening poor libtards! (April 30, 2023)
• follow the money from bushes to barnes (April 2, 2023)
• why the hell wasn’t this october surprise story followed for years? (March 24, 2023)
• the sexiest slow dancing in the dark album ever made? (March 19, 2023)
• the first-ever donald trump nft trading card collectors convention (December 16, 2022)
• a bell, book, and candle to die for (November 7, 2022)
• fantastic prescience of the 21st century in a ’50s men’s magazine? (September 22, 2022)
• “nope” the movie (a review in thirty words) (September 4, 2022)
• is google grooming me to love donald trump? (August 30, 2022)
• important: do you receive email notifications from this blog? (August 23, 2022)
• maybe we should call them the “thoughts and prayers squad” (May 30, 2022)
• we love sandra and amy but we’re gonna see avatar again! (May 2, 2022)
• the post’s experts never saw the hunter biden laptop let alone “analyzed” it (April 8, 2022)
• commenting on a comment on my other blog (January 24, 2022)
• the stupidest way to price a record album I ever saw! (January 3, 2022)
• a .004 percent chance of it being a real warhol! (November 3, 2021)
• a little personal background information (September 6, 2021)
• shhh ... I’m starting a conspiracy theory here to get people masked and vaccinated (August 22, 2021)
• because of jessica wildfire, I found martin rowson (August 14, 2021)
• the circle of life (the vicious circle) (March 27, 2021)
• what’s the best way to “use” the remains of our loved ones? (March 22, 2021)
• yard sale find of old bowl worth half-a-million dollars! (March 3, 2021)
• pam grier, a long time woman, and coincidence (February 12, 2021)
• psychedelic mushrooms and the origins of santa claus (January 6, 2021)
• trump to announce candidacy for 2024 (January 5, 2021)
• liberals should co-opt trump’s “make america great again”! (November 10, 2020)
• ELECTION UPDATE November 7, 2020 (8:45 AM PST) (November 7, 2020)
• except for the masks, everything appeared relatively normal (October 16, 2020)
• my secret meetings with elvis and bob (October 15, 2020)
• quora moderation said my answer may need improvement (October 13, 2020)
• that’s what I’ve been telling people for fifty years! (August 19, 2020)
• to keep my magic true, you must do one thing (May 30, 2020)
• why I’ve been missing during the coronavirus pandemic (May 29, 2020)
• why is michael cohen telling it all to a “conservative” publisher? (April 18, 2020)
• is the consistent misuse of “moot” is just a moo point anyway? (February 25, 2020)
• want to find “Q”? find the missing basement ... (February 22, 2020)
• I can only think of one question I would pose linda ronstadt (January 23, 2020)
• patrick chappatte and will eisner and graphic journalism (December 21, 2019)
• I just launched a new publication on medium all about elvis (November 24, 2019)
• about the bleeding heart liberal petitions page on facebook (November 18, 2019)
• is white man messing around with red man’s poo-poo? (November 9, 2019)
• you don’t appreciate a lot of stuff until you get older (October 29, 2019)
• is there money to be made selling books on the internet? (October 17, 2019)
• just another rhetorical question about God (October 9, 2019)
• we might wonder what benefits impeachment is likely to yield (October 8, 2019)
• first they came for the black-spotted newts (September 20, 2019)
• what should we be doing with the norman lear library? (September 20, 2019)
• somebody’s gotta take care of them (September 9, 2019)
• a few words on finally seeing “independence day: resurgence” (September 7, 2019)
• the poor questioner might infer that I was judging him (September 6, 2019)
• blaming God for the bad but not crediting Him for the good (August 28, 2019)
• what turns you off about loaded questions about tom cruise? (August 23, 2019)
• capitalizing articles and prepositions in your title (August 19, 2019)
• the newsstand’s “house hippie” heads for woodstock (August 18, 2019)
• people love farts and can’t seem to get enough of them (July 17, 2019)
• a series of trials, errors, and occasional victories (April 6, 2019)
• covers of 19 various unrelated books from the 19th century (February 27, 2019)
• shawna mccarthy created a space of her own (February 3, 2019)
• twisting with john and lew at the tell it like it was a-go-go (January 17, 2019)
• we keep on keepin’ on telling it like it was (January 12, 2019)
• a trumpolyte attends or assists his/her leader religiously (January 6, 2019)
• be the first on your block to tell it like it was! (January 4, 2019)
• socrates and elvis walk into a bar (November 4, 2018)
• you probably overrate that which you love (October 8, 2018)
• symbolist poet arthur rimbaud has nothing to do with this post (October 5, 2018)
• I guess I’ll just have to remain anonymous (September 30, 2018)
• on the “rich lifestyles” of music artists and movie stars (September 27, 2018)
• the heyday in the blood is tame (and what is a heyday?) (September 25, 2018)
• can we call trump’s tweeted temper tantrums “tweetrums”? (September 17, 2018)
• conservatives not exactly enthralled by trump are a problem (September 17, 2018)
• screening for mental health risk factors for our kids (September 16, 2018)
• wordpress publish button is like a gun with the safety off (September 11, 2018)
• those fabulous furless geek brothers (rendered unimportant by recent events) (September 8, 2018)
• trump and forbes and the one that got away (September 3, 2018)
• a glossary of terms for understanding wordpress (September 2, 2018)
• it was fifty years ago today, mayor daley sent his troops to play (August 28, 2018)
• and, lo, a bodhisattva savant rose in the west (August 13, 2018)
• now ain’t that a helluva coincidence? (August 12, 2018)
• my facebook page is a rightwingnut hate free zone (July 29, 2018)
• oops! I do not think that means what you think it means (July 26, 2018)
• a crusty old fart answers a question about today’s popular music (July 19, 2018)
• the lollygagging is over and “the endless sixties” is up and running! (July 16, 2018)
• look it up! (then research everything you looked up) (June 29, 2018)
• the hydra of hate bubbling beneath america’s surface (June 21, 2018)
• blmf literary saloon (where used books come to be found) (June 18, 2018)
• big bad eagle steals dinner from baby fox who killed an innocent rabbit (May 24, 2018)
• george zimmerman and self-defense (April 30, 2018)
• an experiment that actually curbed hate speech on the internet (April 30, 2018)
• barbara lee and the boundless consequences of war (April 15, 2018)
• lies, damn lies, fake news, and the misinformation ecosystem (April 8, 2018)
• caustic sarcasm ain’t the same thing as thoughtful irony (April 6, 2018)
• the cost of going to the movies back then and right now (April 3, 2018)
• hey buddy, you wanna talk about it? (April 2, 2018)
• pope francis puts down trickle-down and those wielding economic power (April 1, 2018)
• so atheism and agnosticism don’t do it for you—are you man enough for secular humanism? (March 30, 2018)
• william of occam meets the reverend nemu (March 29, 2018)
• how the hell did I end up here? (March 27, 2018)
• what do earl grey tea, vanilla bean ice cream, and dharma & greg have in common?2 (March 27, 2018)
• staring into space in the presence of others (March 26, 2018)
• in a dark time, the eye begins to see a world of early childhood damage (March 22, 2018)
• right-wing extremists inject hateful rhetoric (March 18, 2018)
• I did not pay that woman with whom I did not have sexual relations to not talk about not having sexual relations with me! (March 15, 2018)
• flashback with olivia newton-john in another place and time (March 10, 2018)
• two men standing in a field, then there was one (on being a left behind) (February 17, 2018)
• when my people are in control vs. when your people are in control (January 20, 2018)
• what do lee harvey oswald and facebook temptresses have in common? (January 18, 2018)
• I survived the great flu of 2018 ... will you, too? (January 13, 2018)
• oliver stone and clint eastwood and all those silly conspiracy theories (December 24, 2017)
• have you heard? NFL football now america’s least favored sport! (December 17, 2017)
• academia discovers that women objectify men and see us as eye-candy (December 4, 2017)
• why do we count people who never vote as voters? (November 23, 2017)
• tim minchin really is an inspiring speaker (on life, dreams, and exercise) (November 19, 2017)
• our world is choking on plastic (demand corporations do their part to end it) (November 12, 2017)
• I think the psychedelic path is sometimes the easiest path (November 9, 2017)
• that number has been greatly exaggerated by the rightwing (November 9, 2017)
• three days after the burial of the beethoven (November 5, 2017)
• it’s better to know nothing than to know what isn’t so (November 1, 2017)
• how do you know the neighbors are having sex? (October 31, 2017)
• dow stands by the safety of insecticide which can harm the brains of fetuses (October 29, 2017)
• michael sowa is composed surreally cryptic (October 26, 2017)
• among all the bones in your brain, is your ratiocinator going unused? (October 22, 2017)
• what’s long and lean and can fly but wasn’t built by boeing? (October 21, 2017)
• o my goddess! women flying without men (October 21, 2017)
• brass-balled rightwing babe badmouths wussy liberal hollywood actresses (October 11, 2017)
• anonymity empowers cowards to become bullies (September 25, 2017)
• harry dean stanton made clint eastwood seem downright garrulous (September 18, 2017)
• it’s an urban myth that husbands never listen to their wives (September 12, 2017)
• turning 66 and meeting the trans new me (September 6, 2017)
• get ready, antifa-sters, ’cause the boogeyman is comin’ to getcha (August 30, 2017)
• telling the truth usually requires facts (August 25, 2017)
• what the hell’s a “waa” in baseball lingo? (August 20, 2017)
• is “auto focus” an out-of-focus half-assed piece of garbage? (July 11, 2017)
• new mom-and-pop, brick-and-mortar book store opens in redmond (July 2, 2017)
• mootly scanning the internet for troll alternates (June 8, 2017)
• godzilla meets the dog soldiers on cloverfield lane (May 16, 2017)
• get your yaw-yaws out! (syphilis, mad monks, and sailors) (May 14, 2017)
• if william strunk was a typographer, would he omit needless spaces (May 8, 2017)
• wine snobs got doctor conti while the rest of us get two buck chuck (April 2, 2017)
• my forte is not my fortay, it’s just my fort (March 21, 2017)
• shouldn’t we be calling the sessions-kislyak affair “sessionsgate” by now? (March 3, 2017)
• too many immoral people are trolling more effectively (February 16, 2017)
• definitely “politically correct” (a third take on journalism taking on authority) (February 5, 2017)
• definitely not “first but wrong” (another take on journalism taking on authority) (February 4, 2017)
• definitely “provably not true” (one take on journalism taking on authority) (February 2, 2017)
• rumor and speculation can look like alternative facts (January 29, 2017)
• trolls are leaving forests and bridges for the internet (January 18, 2017)
• and here I thought I had a person of interest look (January 12, 2017)
• posting online ain’t the same as being in print (January 8, 2017)
• wild wild western washington (January 4, 2017)
• welcoming jayce hunter messenger to this whole world (om-dot-diddit) (December 22, 2016)
• introduction to neal umphred dot com (December 19, 2016)
• where were the hoary hosts of hoggoth? (a review of “dr. strange” the movie) (December 14, 2016)
• social media and all the fake news that’s fit to print (December 14, 2016)
• on william strunk and vigorously concise writing (December 8, 2016)
• about editing and those confusing proofreader’s marks (December 8, 2016)
• we are each of us a fading gigolo or fading gigolette (November 22, 2016)
• carl sagan on our need for skepticism every day (November 11, 2016)
• I live in an alternative reality where clinton won (November 10, 2016)
• but I’d never ever seen anything like that before! (November 8, 2016)
• vote-switching and the vast rightwing echo chamber (October 27, 2016)
• first they came for the lgbt, and I did not speak out because I was straight (October 23, 2016)
• it’s our job to figure out what happened in benghazi! (October 16, 2016)
• just how big did the hubble telescope say the universe was? (October 14, 2016)
• justice ginsburg and colin kaepernick is much ado about nothing (October 11, 2016)
• at least hillary knows the difference between “alternative” and “alternate” (October 10, 2016)
• phaw! on rambaldi and the deplorable finale of “alias” (October 9, 2016)
• never try to argue with an idiot or teach a pig to sing (October 9, 2016)
• the endless fruitless bullying of hillary clinton (October 8, 2016)
• leaving the extreme and going beyond the hinge (October 3, 2016)
• what’s moxie and gumption got to do with hillary’s health? (September 30, 2016)
• sadism! psychopathy! machiavellianism! and trolling? (September 29, 2016)
• tales from the crypt of the rightwingnut blogosphere (where is susan berman?) (September 26, 2016)
• is “voter fraud” a new political buzzword in the rightwing blogosphere? (September 13, 2016)
• a fishing expedition with a nasty dude in camelot (August 21, 2016)
• the astounding creatures of masayoshi matsumoto (August 7, 2016)
• replacing graffiti’s calligraphic howls with helvetican readableness (August 2, 2016)
• sometimes “alias” ain’t no alias at all (July 31, 2016)
• philando’s first law of resistance (July 19, 2016)
• young democrats learn to sit on the floor (instead of shooting people) (June 27, 2016)
• some (piss) poor writing about hillary’s “role” in benghazi (June 6, 2016)
• just liberalate yourself (attempts to do it to others usually fail) (May 18, 2016)
• the shortest history of world war II ever written (with footnotes) (April 28, 2016)
• pangur bán and the nameless monk (April 24, 2016)
• philosophical mutts and zen master cats (April 23, 2016)
• what about them there leftwingnut trolls? (April 13, 2016)
• entangled in a symphony of brightness (April 6, 2016)
• your ego is the ‘i’ in your identity (March 17, 2016)
• mystical liberal loves long walks in the city in the rain (March 16, 2016)
• what every ebay buyer should know now! (March 9, 2016)
• are there supposed to be spaces between the dots in an ellipsis? (March 4, 2016)
• when are we going to see the next .400 hitter? (March 2, 2016)
• to be a better musician in a better position (March 2, 2016)
• subscribe before you leave! (February 24, 2016)
• san francisco fog and the golden gate bridge (February 20, 2016)
• jaco and the gorram frakking parrot (or, do men ever listen to women?) (February 15, 2016)
• I am what I am and that’s all that I am (on being a pragmatic progressive) (February 14, 2016)
• Why I Capitalize Every Word In Every Title (February 10, 2016)
• why you should always tell the truth (February 7, 2016)
• rightwingnuts do it for free on facebook (hate free zone 2) (January 30, 2016)
• the first time I said “I love you” to a woman (January 25, 2016)
• boycotting the oscars for the “right” reasons (January 23, 2016)
• on being misinformed and yet always being “right” (January 20, 2016)
• the flirtations of pepe le pew and his nameless girlfriend (January 17, 2016)
• changing the tower light bulb (it’s too late, baby) (January 16, 2016)
• even racist homophobic misogynists need representation (January 15, 2016)
• bone wars, rock-star scientists, and runaway egos (January 8, 2016)
• far out! I’m another blog’s blog of the month! (January 7, 2016)
• can you be “electrified” by a slam dunk victory? (January 6, 2016)
• mentally ill panhandler plots downfall of da big apple (embedded in ice, part 2) (January 3, 2016)
• we came to the pyramids all embedded in ice (January 3, 2016)
• the hyphen/forward-slash conundrum resolved (January 1, 2016)
• the slaughter of our wolves (a little less action, a little more conversation) (December 30, 2015)
• where wolf? nowhere wolf! (the slaughter of our wolves) (December 30, 2015)
• paramedics don’t make $15 and they save lives! (December 27, 2015)
• laughing with alan watts and the wild hogs (December 26, 2015)
• not your typical african grey parrot (December 23, 2015)
• just how does lsd affect your consciousness? (December 20, 2015)
• let’s give ’em back their furshlugginer zero! (December 18, 2015)
• when is an assumption not a presumption? (December 18, 2015)
• the son of the grandson of cognitive dissonance (December 17, 2015)
• on those pesky dashes as punctuation marks (December 16, 2015)
• how I almost made it with nicole kidman (December 15, 2015)
• that ain’t no furshlugginer acronym! (December 14, 2015)
• art spiegelman’s very strange comic strip for witzend 3 (December 13, 2015)
• truer lies were ne’er spoken (at least not by me) (December 10, 2015)
• grammar girl on grammar myths (December 8, 2015)
• on being eminently beddable (my crush on marisa tomei) (November 30, 2015)
• faith and begorra! I’m a small-d democrat (November 29, 2015)
• waterloo, watergate, whitewatergate, and just plain old gate (November 28, 2015)
• another fishing expedition without a bite (November 27, 2015)
• a few words on performing Beethoven’s 9th symphony (November 25, 2015)
• the collateral damage of manifest destiny (November 22, 2015)
• brain picking a few essential books on typography (November 21, 2015)
• how apropoe – on poe’s law and the wasting of irony on the internet (November 19, 2015)
• oh yeah, the guy brings the condoms (hah!) (November 18, 2015)
• it was there if you wanted it (November 15, 2015)
• even when a man is listening (November 14, 2015)
• who is bigger than the president of the united states? (November 13, 2015)
• were you picked on for being gay (even if you weren’t)? (November 12, 2015)
• did he just say something sacrilitigious? (November 11, 2015)
• hermits cranks pseudoscience and martin gardner (November 10, 2015)
• where does the comma go with quotation marks? (November 9, 2015)
• “shazam” with a small “s” and no exclamation mark (November 8, 2015)
• ornithomimus in dinosaur provincial park sounds trippy (November 7, 2015)
• vapid vacuous mindless journalism in my mailbox (October 29, 2015)
• trump on mental health as opposed to guns (October 7, 2015)
• whose fault is it? (on playing the blame game) (September 26, 2015)
• and some other elements of typography (September 20, 2015)
• robert bringhurst and elements of typographic style (September 18, 2015)
• a free plug for modern themes and readit pro (September 15, 2015)
• the biggest communication problem is listening (or not listening) (September 14, 2015)
• crows as whistleblowers and snowdens (September 13, 2015)
• at one fell swoop (did you say all?) (August 21, 2015)
• skepticism is not a position (it’s a process) (August 11, 2015)
• dogs mimic their owners’ behavior—and their language! (July 23, 2015)
• miss jenny says this is so not the book I’d ever read! (June 19, 2015)
• ebay and other necessary delays (June 6, 2015)
• the decimation of the language continues (May 5, 2015)
• on writing about knights and jousting with darragh metzger (May 4, 2015)
• an informed-voter test is not the same as a “literacy test” (April 29, 2015)
• colleen corby, the first superstar model (and she’s my cousin!) (April 15, 2015)
• evgeny kiselev and the invisible landscape (April 5, 2015)
• the revelations of basil wolverton will keep you awake at night (April 3, 2015)
• when berni wakes up in the middle of the night (April 3, 2015)
• why mariel hemingway’s new revelation about woody allen doesn’t matter (April 2, 2015)
• ken crawford and barnard 33 (March 28, 2015)
• what’s with all the different dvd packaging? (make up your minds already) (March 24, 2015)
• addicted to marvel tales annual 1 (marvel comics 1964 part 2) (March 19, 2015)
• addicted to marvel comics 1964 part 1 (March 19, 2015)
• a zen fable by fred schrier (March 19, 2015)
• with wally wood at the EC fan addict convention (March 19, 2015)
• wally wood and witzend and the pipsqueak papers (March 19, 2015)
• me as mystical liberal and master of nealism (March 17, 2015)
• those legendary oatmeal farts are real! (March 2, 2015)
• just gimme some truth (that’s not bought and paid for) (February 27, 2015)
• when dad is just as bad as the bullies (February 26, 2015)
• on poul anderson’s brain wave (February 22, 2015)
• the bright white light of the bike (February 21, 2015)
• mass murderers in the US had one thing in common (February 13, 2015)
• a perfect toast for any best man (February 9, 2015)
• so society seeks order in anarchy (February 5, 2015)
• the increasingly unequal states of america (February 2, 2015)
• can’t see what forest for whose trees? (January 30, 2015)
• 15 things to pack in car for emergency (January 17, 2015)
• another example of what not to do when publishing (December 23, 2014)
• Wikipedia collected knowledge of the world for us and by us (December 16, 2014)
• aclu priorities survey for 2015 (and my responses) (December 16, 2014)
• nealism on a general theory of relativity (December 12, 2014)
• memories pressed between the pages of my mind (December 5, 2014)
• I’m out campaigning in jeans and tennis shoes! (November 23, 2014)
• what weren’t the democrats thinking about? (November 12, 2014)
• on coming to grips with scorpionic power (November 2, 2014)
• irony in casting a movie has been known to tinkle my funny keys (October 30, 2014)
• mark twain on the united states as a Christian country (October 28, 2014)
• if gomer pyle can forgive lance armstrong, so can we (October 25, 2014)
• buggered by doc martin and company (October 25, 2014)
• I’m not a scientist, man, but I know it when I see it! (October 21, 2014)
• noam chomsky on marginalization and the super bowl (October 19, 2014)
• on being toked and stoked (October 19, 2014)
• charlene dill and the consequences of consequentialism (October 18, 2014)
• that damn liberal media doesn’t strike again in charlotte, nc (October 18, 2014)
• next time ask yourself, “what would charlie umphred do?” (October 17, 2014)
• equal pay day and the newly compassionate conservative (October 17, 2014)
• when the sprite speaks, I listen and “fuck” becomes “f*ck” (October 17, 2014)
• what the fuck part 3 (wtf are all these acronyms about?) (October 16, 2014)
• lost in austenland with the jane austen book club (October 14, 2014)
• why do I have a sig-nah-cher instead of a sine-ah-cher? (October 13, 2014)
• a black list and a northwest mallard (October 12, 2014)
• yossarian lives! (and he’s an octogenarian) (October 7, 2014)
• you know you’re from the valley when (October 6, 2014)
• google’s panda urges overweight sites to take a diet (October 3, 2014)
• to hell with FDA regs—let our kids smoke! (October 1, 2014)
• shouldn’t this be a major source of cognitive dissonance again? (September 29, 2014)
• grilled cheese and sex and emmy rossum (September 21, 2014)
• the ever fallible, myopic, vindictive, emotional, biased me (and you) (September 17, 2014)
• hey! you! get off of my arm! (September 17, 2014)
• a simple “hello” or a case of false consensus effect? (September 15, 2014)
• the closest the world has come to nuclear war since 1962 (September 13, 2014)
• a roaring of tense colors and interlacing of opposites (on dada) (September 4, 2014)
• johnny depp’s secret inspiration for captain jack sparrow is out of the closet! (September 2, 2014)
• to reason methodically and logically with conscious, deliberate inference (September 1, 2014)
• what will you tell God when you stand before Him? (August 31, 2014)
• evolution, vestigial structures, and buffalo wing hunters (August 30, 2014)
• so what has president obama done for you lately? (August 28, 2014)
• skepticism vs. propagandism and the obama golf habit (August 27, 2014)
• governor scott walker as the face of republicanism today (August 26, 2014)
• this really happened – can’t make up something like this! (August 14, 2014)
• have we won “them” over or are “our guys” going their way? (August 12, 2014)
• the infuriating climate change memes that just won’t die (August 12, 2014)
• why would anyone design movie subtitles that ruin movie watching? (August 10, 2014)
• anomalous stories incongruous places (July 30, 2014)
• creativity rears its head when inspiration strikes (July 25, 2014)
• beyoncé and pepsi and me (on cultural oblivion part 2) (July 25, 2014)
• in the line of fire at a 70s disco in scranton, pennsylvania (July 24, 2014)
• them or me, what’s it gonna be? (on cultural oblivion part 1) (July 22, 2014)
• alive and well and still writing in the oh-so-hot pacific northwest (July 13, 2014)
• bill maher identifies new political species: the “non-apoplectic obama hack” (July 13, 2014)
• another little story that the damn liberal media missed (say it ain’t so, joe) (er, richard) (July 13, 2014)
• paying attention to conservative thought in film, music, and literature (July 2, 2014)
• start me up and never stop (you make your neighbors cry) (June 15, 2014)
• accident report update: a second posting on a second day (June 9, 2014)
• where have my new postings gone, long time passing? (June 8, 2014)
• on dictionaries and acronyms and the ever-changing language that we speak and write and use and abuse (May 12, 2014)
• on being german then irish and now a scottish bagpiper! (May 10, 2014)
• what the fuck part 2 (an etymological look at everyone’s favorite four-letter word) (April 25, 2014)
• yet more on the deconstruction of the American worker’s family (April 24, 2014)
• what the fuck part 1 – is “fuck” still that big a deal? (April 23, 2014)
• elite mossbacks discover free trade is killing the middle class (April 22, 2014)
• the difference between alcohol and marijuana (April 13, 2014)
• the return of the little red motor scooter (and five dollar buck lunches, too) (April 10, 2014)
• a little truth about the manufactured losses of the once efficient usps (April 10, 2014)
• motor scooters and the return of the five dollar buck lunch (April 8, 2014)
• with modern technology, everything will work out just fine—ultimately (April 8, 2014)
• march jobs report nothing moving (unless you compare it to the bush jobs reports) (April 4, 2014)
• obama, minimum wage, fellow democrats, and the hershey bar index (April 3, 2014)
• sherlock holmes on the acquisition of knowledge (April 2, 2014)
• public education, racism, and irony on the internet (April 1, 2014)
• the green thing, the good old days, and leaf bloody blowers! (March 31, 2014)
• the mia-dylan neverending story (and “the character assassination of woody allen” – part 3) (March 22, 2014)
• rising productivity in american workers yet declining wages and benefits (February 17, 2014)
• what the damn dems are doing and what they ain’t (February 11, 2014)
• if you’re not with me, then you must be against me (the character assassination of woody allen part 2) (February 10, 2014)
• to carry on really good conversation, just follow these rules (February 6, 2014)
• about this so-called liberals-being-rude-to-the-right thing (February 2, 2014)
• earl earl earl, earl of grey (yes, I’m the earl of grey) (February 1, 2014)
• for men only (based on a true story) (February 1, 2014)
• welcome to the “bleeding heart liberal” facebook page (January 30, 2014)
• what happened in Iceland should be happening in america (January 27, 2014)
• where are all the damn liberal viral emails that are supposed to be out there? (January 26, 2014)
• anarchy in the uk or anywhere else wouldn’t be such a bad thing (January 26, 2014)
• guns popcorn sarcasm and justifiable self-defense (January 25, 2014)
• the best way for a hospital to make money shouldn’t be perverse incentives (January 25, 2014)
• lewis carroll and an elementary lesson on making a request (January 23, 2014)
• hugo ball and sound poetry (o gadji beri bimba) (January 23, 2014)
• o gadji beri booboo (guardian of our being) (January 22, 2014)
• it’s our job to do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again! (January 19, 2014)
• once upon a time there really was a war on poverty (January 19, 2014)
• the continuing character assassination of woody allen part 1 (January 18, 2014)
• on mutual orgasm and the generation gap (January 16, 2014)
• farting around with agents mulder and scully (January 15, 2014)
• reefer sanity in Idaho: “I smoked weed and nobody died ” (January 14, 2014)
• seven movies changed political views (huh?) (January 14, 2014)
• a budding facebook friendship meets the void (January 13, 2014)
• jeremiah johnson and the language and music of the wolves (January 13, 2014)
• mah fellow americans just keep on gettin’ dumb and dumberer (January 10, 2014)
• a glimpse into the future for me and my gal (January 8, 2014)
• it ain’t what you know that gets you in trouble (January 8, 2014)
• home-grown is the way it should be (amen!) (January 8, 2014)
• hundreds of deaths due due to pot smoking in colorado!??! (January 7, 2014)
• socialist city council member kshama sawant immediately affects seattle (January 6, 2014)
• new york to allow medical marijuana? (January 5, 2014)
• david brooks conservatives marijuana (“been there done that”) (January 5, 2014)
• william blum: “our leaders do not mean well” (January 5, 2014)
• so these like clothing factories are like where? (December 27, 2013)
• why does stephen king believe norman mailer and gerald posner? – part 2 (December 27, 2013)
• populist movements grow out of popular discontent (December 24, 2013)
• why does stephen king believe mailer and posner that oswald acted alone? (December 15, 2013)
• francis speaks truth and rush runs off at the mouth (December 3, 2013)
• do you think that popeye and olive oyl drank earl grey at tea time? (December 1, 2013)
• instead of voting, russell brand wants a revolution (November 27, 2013)
• socialist vows to use voters’ mandate to inspire action and toss a spanner into the works (November 27, 2013)
• the rude pundit says you don’t win the new civil war by being civil (November 23, 2013)
• dock ellis and the psychedelic no-hitter (or ellis in wonderland) (November 22, 2013)
• boeing, the machinists union, the contract, and the horror (November 21, 2013)
• nuts roughly eaten may cause immortality (November 21, 2013)
• amass may be similar to mass but not to a mass (November 10, 2013)
• because it takes a lot of energy and verve to be corrupt and evil (November 9, 2013)
• jurassic sex: fossil catches ancient bugs in the act (November 7, 2013)
• yet more on science fiction and fantasy (is this modern science fiction part 6?) (November 4, 2013)
• 2 adults charged with promoting minors’ sex abuse (November 3, 2013)
• tuesdays with morrie schwartz and the little wave (November 3, 2013)
• on ending the never-ending war in the middle east (November 2, 2013)
• modern science fiction and the gimme part 5 – on modern fantasy and the gimme (November 1, 2013)
• modern science fiction and the gimme part 4 – on various genres and the gimme (October 31, 2013)
• modern science fiction and the gimme part 3 (October 30, 2013)
• modern science fiction and the gimme part 2 – on the rule of the gimme (October 29, 2013)
• modern science fiction and the gimme part 1 – on certain laws of science fiction (October 28, 2013)
• how to affect policy change and get something done in america (October 27, 2013)
• bloodbaths come easy when your own blood’s not involved (September 18, 2013)
• my psychic girlfriend (September 16, 2013)
• those in power need checks and restraints (September 15, 2013)
• ally, mal, uncle andy, and the pernicious glass teat (September 4, 2013)
• the most consistently able writer science fiction has yet produced (September 4, 2013)
• me and the wife, hell, we like going out! we just don’t (September 1, 2013)
• stand by your man – hillary clinton as conservative icon! (August 31, 2013)
• let it be (acknowledging a word that shouldn’t be) (August 31, 2013)
• he didnt do it! and we won’t let him do it again! (August 30, 2013)
• dimwits are all around me, they’re everywhere I go (August 29, 2013)
• saddam’s wmd found in syria! (didn’t we just do this?) (August 26, 2013)
• mark twain on being a writer and a reader (August 23, 2013)
• how many inter-neuronic connections are there in the human brain? (August 23, 2013)
• most louisiana republicans don’t know who was president in 2005! (August 22, 2013)
• was eliot spitzer wall street’s worst nightmare? (August 22, 2013)
• does america still have a star-spangled future? (August 20, 2013)
• isaac asimov on american anti-intellectualism and ignorance (August 19, 2013)
• the adventures of huck and tom in the 113th congress (August 14, 2013)
• chick flicks versus buddy flicks (August 13, 2013)
• living with the horror of agent orange (August 10, 2013)
• recalling ken griffey jr’s purity (August 9, 2013)
• impeach the half-white muslim black sheep! (August 8, 2013)
• hungry vermin, toxic water, and a corporate cover-up!!! (August 8, 2013)
• is alleged irascibility germane to the issue? da! nyet! (August 8, 2013)
• all-star chase utley to stay in philadelphia through 2015 (August 8, 2013)
• spam as dada poetry (luo is do-drop water gastight) (August 8, 2013)
• catch a wave and you’re sitting on top of the world (August 7, 2013)
• why wordpress books remind me of microsoft word manuals (August 7, 2013)
• is this, like, irony, or more in-house cognitive dissonance? (August 6, 2013)
• everybodys rights are everybodys business! (August 6, 2013)
• is THIS an example of cognitive dissonance? (August 6, 2013)
• no relief in sight for closeritis epidemic among managers! (August 2, 2013)
• let’s cut to the chase on the cause of crime everywhere (August 2, 2013)
• “I definitely did not come here for this” (August 1, 2013)
• improper-but-no-longer-incorrect word usage alert! (July 31, 2013)
• what if we raised the minimum wage to $12 (July 31, 2013)
• zombie farmers don’t let their dead status get in the way of government handouts (July 31, 2013)
• guilty guilty guilty but of what? (July 30, 2013)
• local newspapers local statistics and sabermetrics (July 29, 2013)
• on baseball and moneyball and bill james (July 29, 2013)
• it cant happen here (who could imagine that they would freak out in washington, dc) (July 28, 2013)
• an open letter to president obama (July 28, 2013)
• because she could see the future! (July 27, 2013)
• the teapot dome and the reagan savings and loan crisis (July 26, 2013)
• alternate vs alternative is no longer a moot point (July 25, 2013)
• norman spinrad walks among us (July 25, 2013)
• old habits die hard bump shooosh, bump shooosh (July 23, 2013)
• tough year ahead for mcdonalds just ain’t so (July 23, 2013)
• boy shoots and kills self and then surrenders! (July 23, 2013)
• house speaker boehner’s boner weren’t no boner atall (July 22, 2013)
• my bhl petitions on facebook (bleeding heart liberal petitions) (July 22, 2013)
• palestinian prisoners restart talks with palestinian representatives (July 21, 2013)
• helen thomas vs kennedy johnson nixon ford carter reagan bush bush clinton and obama (July 21, 2013)
• john ford and woody allen and stanley kubrick (and clint eastwood) (July 21, 2013)
• can liberals be cheerleaders for conservatives with guns yes we can can! (July 20, 2013)
• to trade or not to trade (July 19, 2013)
• looks like we will be needing more snowdens (July 19, 2013)
• for want of a hyphen (“I want hyphen”) (July 19, 2013)
• a neal defines rant post (July 19, 2013)
• what’s a “buck lunch”? (or, whats a buck lunch) (July 19, 2013)
• a stickler for rules (at least for grammar) (July 19, 2013)
• the origin of neals rants (July 19, 2013)