A few years ago, the company I worked for packed up and moved to Cleveland, leaving me with my thumb up my ass and a dwindling bank account. I went over to the unemployment office, filled out a form, met with somebody and sat in on a 1-hour re-employment class. Then they started sending me checks. All I had to do was call them up every two weeks ( Read more... )

A year ago this month, Donna and I had desk jobs with benefits, I was looking for engagement rings and houses, we had our health and were making tentative plans for the future ( Read more... )

To the person who's reading this in Villa Park Illinois with the DeVry ISP... who are you? Stand up and be counted. I've been racking my brain trying to figure out if I know you.

There are few things I hate more while pedaling on a busy road than the fuck that drives past and BLARES the horn at you as soon as he gets alongside you. Not only do I find this behavior unnecessary, I find the very existence of these individuals and the perpetuation of their drawing breath to be unnecessary. Tell me, if you can, what benefit it ( Read more... )

I’m at work. I’ve been here since 8:30. It’s 1pm. In that time, I’ve completed one work-related task: I printed out a document and handed it to this guy Doug. Also in this time, I earned over a hundred bucks. That sounds like a good deal, except if you’re a psychologist, in which case you can do roughly the same amount of work for $350. So from ( Read more... )

As if it weren't enough to make wild campaign promises that can't be kept, as if it weren't enough to change political positions whenever the polls dictate, as if it weren't enough to keep trying to buy the White House, overspending candidates by 5, 10, 20-to-1 margins with funds out of a greedy stockpile, amassed by raping the middle class, ( Read more... )

While I was growing up, I heard plenty of people say, "It’s the Christian thing to do." A homeless guy asks you for money, and instead of leaving him hanging you give him some change and say, "It’s the Christian thing to do." You forgive and forget because it’s the Christian thing to do. You get your brains bashed in with a golf putter while trying ( Read more... )

"Nobel laureate Al Gore said Thursday the United States is "principally responsible" for blocking progress at the U.N. climate conference, and European nations threatened to boycott U.S.-led climate talks next month unless Washington compromises on emissions reductions ( Read more... )

Finally, without further ado, I give you my college project, the best I was able to do in 3 years at NJCU, at last loaded onto Youtube, the 2005 film noir masterpiece, The Drip Incident.

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I can hardly believe the lack of respect for life, the lack of understanding and patience, the lack of any semblence of intelligence and compassion that is being shown by a mob in the Sudan that is calling for the execution of a teacher for the heinous crime of allowing her class to name a Teddy Bear "Muhammed." Are these people born crazy, or is ( Read more... )