This is 2000, what, 9 now? And we are still settling our differences with violence? We have advanced very little over the years and decades and centuries. Sure, there are more efficient ways of killing these days, but it's the same thing. Killing.
When I was in fifth grade---back when Nixon was president----this classmate used to bother me all the ( Read more... )

So another Illinois politician is corrupt, what a surprise. This one seems particulary fun, I guess, because everybody knew GRod was evil, but now he's been caught redhanded. What I can't wait for is how he will turn it into sympathy for himself, like telling the press how he has just been diagnosed with cancer or something else, or how he needed ( Read more... )

Here's another phrase that is getting used way too often: not so much. You ask someone if they, say, liked a particular movie and the response would be(if they didnt like it): "not so much."  The Reader's review of the new James Bond movie went on to state that Bond used to be able to do and say this and that, but today..."not so much."  There's ( Read more... )

One of the main reasons I vote Democrat is because I don't like war, and usually when a Republican is in office there is a war. The only thing a war does is kill people, and the people being killed normally have no idea just why they are being killed. And, for that matter, neither does anybody else. Nobody knows why we were in Vietnam, except to ( Read more... )

Let me see if I have this right: filthy rich bozo's on Wall Street and elsewhere make many bad decisions and cost people a hell of a lot of money and there's more to come, and the government (we the people) are supposed to bail them out? Is it something like that? Or are we ever going to know what the actual story is? Is this all a smokescreen for ( Read more... )

We all settled into the little house, some in bedrooms and some in sleeping bags in other rooms. There was only one bathroom, which made things kind of touchy, but you are supposed to believe everything is for a reason and not worry. The first day after we figured out who was who, we went out to find jobs. We were only allowed to work part time and ( Read more... )

I can't seem to get in touch with my friend L these days. We hung out a lot during the summer when I was working on her project, but we dont get together now. I'll set up a time to meet for coffee and she will blow if off. And now she wont communicate with me at all. Wonder if she's mad at me. Im just whining. whine.

Somewhere along the way to Detroit there was (or still is) a bridge that goes from the city across the river to Cananda. By the time we got there I was tired and so turned around that we could have been in New Zealand for all I knew. We were in the parking lot of a shopping mall, us WoW's, fifty or so in all, and we were waiting for the leader of ( Read more... )

Having worked in retail for so long, eleven years at Borders as of September 2, I've noticed some differences in the behavior of men and women. When a woman comes in looking for a book that she does not recall the title of, she will ask about it in a self effacing manner, prefacing the question with something like this: "You probably hear this a ( Read more... )

Walk around Evanston and you will notice that is does not take long for someone to f**k with you.  Someone who wants to know what time it is, usually a bum-ish type, which makes you wonder why he gives a damn,  or someone who wants to walk right into you or ask you a question that you can in no way understand, not because of any translation ( Read more... )