WHAP!!!

Maurice felt an arm hit him on the head, as he reeled in shock.

“Damnit, Jethro, what the heck are you doing?  I thought we were allies!”

“Nah,  Maurice, she made me a better offer,” Jethro said, nonchalantly nodding  at the svelte black girl lounging in the background.  "She licked my ear this morning, and really that’s all it took.”

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A  tall and buff man with flowing golden locks is sitting on a rollercoaster.   The coaster starts moving and picks up speed, as the occupants cheer at the thrilling ride.  Suddenly something flies in and  smacks the blond man in the face, and he winces at the obvious pain from such a high-speed impact.  As the ride slows, the blonde man’s chiseled ( Read more... )

In  early 1997, two men are sitting around a table in a run-down mansion in  the East Bay in California.  They are engaged in serious business  discussions.

“So, I’m considering quitting this life and becoming a minister,” he said, resignedly.

“Wot,” stated his manager, shocked at the suggestion.

“Yeah,  I feel like I am not reaching enough ( Read more... )

“I can’t do that, Freddy,” he pleaded.

“You can and you will, Donut.  I told you I expected some penance for how you shafted me.”

“But, Freddy, you don’t understand.  I don’t have the power to do it.  I am not omnipotent here.”

“Are you a real man or a boy, Donito?  You get your ass out there and make it happen.”

“But  I already got in a lot of ( Read more... )

I opened up yet another tab on my browser for a potential laptop.

“Shitty-res again", I murmured.  Shitty-res was  my term for low resolution screens on modern laptops.  I find it  ridiculous that new laptops are still being sold with screen resolutions  that are no better than that which I had in my first laptop more than  20 years ago.  I refuse ( Read more... )

“Communism,” he muttered as he stared at her pants, split in the seat.  “It’s always communism.”

As  part of the last Cold War generation, communism was never far from his  mind.  Whether it was the printer that didn’t share, obviously a failure  of communism, or the frogs that chirped in unison in the college pond,  an example of communism in the ( Read more... )

I will participate in LJ Idol:

https://therealljidol.livejournal.com/

There are rumors that President-elect Obama will pick Dr. Steven Chu, an experimental physicist, head of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, to be his Secretary of Energy.  An actual scientist in charge of energy policy.  Wow ( Read more... )

The Senate today decided to punt on giving the Big 2.8 (Chrysler is still 20% German owned, by Daimler) American automakers a bailout.  They are correct to do so in the current environment.  Here are some reasons why:

• MYTH: The big 2.8 automakers are all the same.
• REALITY: Ford is in far better shape than GM and Chrysler.  Their incompetent CEO, ( Read more... )

Apple has always been about style, but the substance was always there behind the scenes.  This really is not the case anymore.  I was unimpressed with the iPhone last summer primarily because they locked it out of third party developers, leading to most of its users "jailbreaking" it in order to get the functionality that should have been built in ( Read more... )