Hello the Internet I Love You: Two Tickets to Stupid-Ass

Your Yahoo! News, your YouTube, your Atlas Shrugs, they come and go.  Some web site comment sections go to college to get more knowledge, and some go to Jupiter to get more stupider.  But one comment section reigns supreme.  One comments section has come out on top, year after year, …

The Most Beautiful Fraud: The Critics are Raving About Atlas Shrugged!

Because I guess we’ve exhausted all of our other entertainment options, somebody has gone ahead and made a movie of Atlas Shrugged.  The troubled production has finally arrived in cineplexes, and while it’s not the big-budget blockbuster Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie extravaganza we were once promised, I’m sure it’s a wonderful …

The Sandwich Century — #8: The Breakfast Sandwich

The problem with writing about the breakfast sandwich, as part of the Sandwich Century project, is that it’s not really a single sandwich, as such, but more a genre of sandwich.  To borrow a line from Parks and Recreation, you can’t say your favorite kind of cake is birthday cake, …

Have an Opinion: Your Bra Bomb Better Work, Nerdlinger!

Over at the National Review, they’ve given idiot-at-large Jay Nordlinger a column called “Impromptus”, in which he jots down his half-formed mental emissions.  As with most such random-thoughts columns, you get what you pay for.  Let’s watch! It was interesting to read Kate Trinko’s piece on Michele Bachmann and learn …

Watchin’ My Stories: “Billy’s Prison Diary – How It All Happened”

Today we’ll be re-launching a short story series I started several years ago called “Billy’s Prison Diary”.  Enjoy. *** to hear henry tell it them people just about controled the whole world.  sometimes wed be over to lances diner grill and tommyd be readin the paper and henryd up and …