Today I will share a personal Halloween Horror Story: The Belly Rubber!
Continue reading The Belly Rubber: A Halloween Horror Story.
October 2007 Archives
I heard an interesting discussion on the radio the other day that the problem with modern policing in the urban core today is not only the matter of Pretend Police replacing real officers, but also one of the police distrusting the general public by considering everyone a danger instead of innocent, ordinary, people.
Continue reading Policing and Loving the Ordinary Enemy Civilian.
As the author of the new book -- Google Apps Administrator Guide -- it is difficult for me to write this article today, but the hallmark of the book is its blunt examination of Google Apps and how to get the whole mishmash of applications working in unison across an entire domain. I believe the book is a fun, honest and informational read that doesn't kowtow or ass munch.
Continue reading While Google Poops, the Rest of Us Get Dumped.
Today's question is simple and we await your beautiful answer:
We all know the radical array of answers to the old chestnut inquiry: "How long is a piece of string?"
Continue reading How Long is a Piece of String?.
I have never been a math genius. Or even a math sub-genius. Or even a non-genius. In fact, I'm a bit of a Math Dunce. I need your help in solving a math problem.
Continue reading Helping a Math Dunce.
Is there value in the newfound and everlasting virtual eternity of our lives online? If so, what is that value and how is it quantified, qualified, banked and spent?
Continue reading Valuing Virtual Eternity.
I have decided to shun Jerry Seinfeld and his stolen sycophant wife. He has a new bee movie coming out soon and I'm not going to see it because
I have come to believe Jerry is not a good person, he is morally corrupt, and he lacks a social understanding of ethical behavior in context. Jerry Seinfeld has become, for me, "the Barry Bonds of comedy" by denying the obvious to protect the ego. Here's why.
I have come to believe Jerry is not a good person, he is morally corrupt, and he lacks a social understanding of ethical behavior in context. Jerry Seinfeld has become, for me, "the Barry Bonds of comedy" by denying the obvious to protect the ego. Here's why.
Continue reading Shunning Jerry Seinfeld and His Stolen Sycophant Wife.
It's a sad day for Yankees fans as we are forced to realize it is the end of the Joe Torre era in the Bronx; lots of newspaper headlines shout the infamous New York City "Shove It!" rallying cry.
Continue reading So Long Joe.
When the time comes -- and you know it will -- would you marry your robot? If yes, why? If not, why not?
Continue reading With This Robot, I Thee Wed.
We all know Jesus was Found Dead in His Grave, but did you know dead Pope John Paul II has been found alive in flames during a bonfire ceremony celebrating the second anniversary of his death?
Continue reading Dead Pope Found Alive in Flames.
The Jena 6 happening brought nooses back to the mainstream mindset and we now seem to be in the midst of a media frenzy where nooses are seen everywhere and people are put on edge just waiting to be insulted by a length of knotted rope so they can express their indignant outrage.
Continue reading Are Nooses Hate Crimes?.
There is no greater gift one can give another than the bloom of their youth in its prime sexual and creative fertility.
Continue reading The Gift of Youth and the Burden of Fertility.
We all know How Agriculture Ruined the World, but did you know by 2008 half the world will live in cities? That is a cold, blunt, fact that makes us all smaller.
Continue reading Half the World is Urban.
I was raised in Nebraska where American college football rules Saturday afternoons for three months a year.
Continue reading Texas High School Football: The Wrongful Elevation of Childhood Ego.
Why are we unable to deal our own distress and misery? Instead of self-healing from within, we turn to others for tempering our immediate needs and our demands for instant satisfaction.
Continue reading The Instant Now, the Immediate Me.
Kathakali Chatterjee wrote this article.
I still remember the day I landed at the Minneapolis airport three years ago and I went into a time machine where I felt unfamiliar and out-of-place but not uncomfortable or unwelcome.
I still remember the day I landed at the Minneapolis airport three years ago and I went into a time machine where I felt unfamiliar and out-of-place but not uncomfortable or unwelcome.
Continue reading Unlearning the Midwest in India.
"Hand me that bowl of Nigger toes," my grandfather shouted at me across a large oak table filled with family and holiday dressings for Thanksgiving dinner.
I must've been around eight-years-old at the time and before I could ask him -- what bowl of who -- his two daughters, one of them my mother, shouted back at him, "Dad! We don't talk like that here!" He shrugged them off and pointed at me, "There, boy. By your hand. Shove over that bowl of Nigger toes!"
I must've been around eight-years-old at the time and before I could ask him -- what bowl of who -- his two daughters, one of them my mother, shouted back at him, "Dad! We don't talk like that here!" He shrugged them off and pointed at me, "There, boy. By your hand. Shove over that bowl of Nigger toes!"
Continue reading Hand Me that Bowl of Nigger Toes.
Today is Columbus Day -- a national holiday in the USA -- where we celebrate The Original Immigrant's discovery of us. I, however, think we should be celebrating an even greater force in America that requires the rediscovery of a whole new nation: The United States of China.
Continue reading The United States of China.
I love words. I love writing words. I love reading words. I love hearing words. I have a new WordPunk blog that deals with "words in the wilds." The power of words is in their definition. Words have meanings only because they are shared in context and understood between people. Dictionaries help bridge the fuzzy confusion between definition and meaning.
Imagine, then, my delight and horror in receiving this email from a university professor friend of mine:
Word came down from above that we are no longer allowed to use "niggle" or "niggly" or any variety thereof in writing or speaking with students because "they sound and look too much like that other word" (the N-word) and we don't "want to upset the student body." I thought they were joking at first until I also saw a warning against using "spook" in class, too.
Continue reading The Definition of Nigger, Niggle, Niggly.
What is the benefit in finding public ecstasy in suffering?
It there a lesson to be learned in the semiotic lynching of Black children on the campus of Grambling State University?
Continue reading The Lesson in Lynching Black Children.
Burma is burning. In blood. I'm not sure what to make of the monks' protest or how to help their cause or what to do to stop the dying.
Continue reading Burma is Burning in Blood.
Well, the New York Mets have done it again: They made baseball history yesterday by creating the biggest, choking, collapse in the history of the game that left children weeping:
Continue reading Mets Fans Root for a Perpetual Loser.
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