The bathroom at my job is offensive.  Seriously.  Now when I say that, please allow me to qualify myself to be offended at a bathroom.

1) I am an Eagle Scout.  I camped out for half of my youth.  I've crapped in holes I dug myself, I've crapped in porta-poties galore and at least twice I canoed the Ausable River in Michigan, which is nothing if not ( Read more... )

01.02.07

The Year of Moving On

All right, people.  I'm officially out of Retirement.  It's time to get back, get cracking and get a grip.  This coming year will be a time of great change, for both good and ill.  It's a time of extreme polarization, a time of upheaval, and a time of war.  At this time in history, it appears we may be approaching a ( Read more... )

Gerald Ford died yesterday.

It's difficult to say how one should feel at times like this.  On the one hand, he was a President who never sought out the office, who inherited with the White House the unholy sh!tstorm of Watergate and the toxic fallout of Nixon--which has yet to reach its half-life.  Truthfully, he didn't ask for any of those problems ( Read more... )

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The Godfather of Soul, Mr. Dynamite, Soul Brother Number One, The Hardest Working Man in Show Business, Mr. Please, Please, Please Himself, Mr. James Brown passed away last weekend.

It's difficult to say how one should feel at a time like this.  On the one hand, he was a musical innovator, a champion of civil rights, and one of the most gifted ( Read more... )

Yesterday's Point/Counterpoint can be found at  
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(The Internal affairs dep't has just received this transmission from J. Moriarty)

****FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST/RELEASE****

12.20.06

To--My Adoring Public via Mixer2435

From.  J. Moriarty

Re:Imminent End to Retirement.

Friends, Romans, Countrymen,

Four days hence I will begin my return to civilization, and end my Retirement from the Realm of Politics.  In ( Read more... )

Prick- ENTP
73% Extraversion, 66% Intuition, 53% Thinking, 33% Judging People love to hate you, because you love to argue. The strange thing is you probably took that as a compliment. Why, I bet you've already got a witty comeback all lined up ready to throw right back at me.
What you don't realise is that your inane obsession with debating pisses ( Read more... )