I was sitting in the mall, innocently finishing lunch and reading Cormac McCarthy when I noticed someone walking by. Glancing toward the movement, I was hypnotized. She wore a pair of jeans that were under extreme stress and walked with a motion that was either practiced in a mirror for years or Heaven sent.
I felt a tingle inside and my time clock began spinning in reverse, like the altimeter in a diving WWII airplane. My first thought was Dottie Jean, the one inescapable fantasy girl in my life.
Dottie Jean lived in the same apartment complex as us and would stop ...
I’m, for one — I know it’s not politically correct to say it — I believe in racial and ethnic profiling. I think if you’re looking at people getting on an airplane and you have X amount of resources to get into it, you get at the targets, and not my wife. And I just think it’s something that should be looked into. The statement that’s made, it’s probably 90 percent true with some exceptions like the Murrah federal office building in my state, Oklahoma. Those people, ...
Patent Office, may we help you?
Yes, I'd like to register a meme, but perhaps I am in the wrong place.
Go on.
Well, I might think I need to be at the Copyright Office.
Wait a minute, you might think or you think you might?
Does it matter?
No, I don't think.
I was afraid of that.
What?
Nothing.
I'm not supposed to tell you this, but...
But what?
Never mind.
As I was saying, I would like to patent a meme.
I'm listening.
Thank you. The meme is as follows, "Size Matters - Logic Doesn't" am I in the right place?
Is that part of the meme?
No.
Thank heavens, no good deed goes unpunished.
What do ...
No better way the Dinner Hour to greet,
Than with a Plate piled high with tasty Meat.
No matter be it Fowl or Beef or Lamb,
I eat, and to the PETA folks say “Damn!”
I’d rather eat a Chicken or a Duck
Than be a stupid Tofu-Nourished Schmuck.
Yes, give me Beef: a thick and juicy Steak,
That I may thank the Lord that I’m awake!
A friend reminded me the other day that it’s almost time for the Ides of March, a day celebrated in Shakespearian Literature.
But these days, we don’t celebrate March 15 on account of Julius Caesar. We celebrate it because it’s IEATAPETA ...
Never Google ‘Willie Mays’!
Just don’t. It ain’t right.
First of all, Willie Mays was a god and gods are … well dammit, they’re gods! They shouldn’t have to be Googled. We should just know that they “are” gods and why they have that status — like Zeus or Thor or Ali or Jordan or Tiger. Or Willie Mays. (And to be perfectly honest, it says more about you than it does about them if you have to go around “Googling” gods. If it were left to me, the '‘laws of lineage’' would include a requirement for elders to have an early, ...
In the middle part of the last century a man named Genrich Altshuller, a citizen of the then Soviet Union, developed a series of principles to guide invention. Altshuller had been an inventor all his life; he received his first patent when he was around fourteen. After developing several inventions that were classified state secrets, he spent some time in Stalin's prisons. Later, he was an employee at the Soviet patent office and, during this time, formalized the ideas he had developed over the years into a procedure to guide invention.
Altshuller's incisive breakthrough was to notice that all technical systems ...
A few months ago a certain head of a certain private SC university and Dew reader called me a “fatalist.” I’m not. I’m an American. Americans are always optimists. I’m just happen to be near the top of my personal bell curve of cynicism. It seemed at the time, for good cause, but not now.
A new study just out for 2009 says that despite the record unemployment, layoffs, furloughs, downsizing, off-shoring, Wall Street crash, real estate crash, and worst depression since Prozac was allowed to advertise on TV, it seems that millionaires in the US grew by 16% to 7.8 ...
Oh, sure, he's a conservative.
But David Brooks is far from the most doctrinaire, and his columns in The New York Times are almost always readable.
As a writer and in his regular appearances on PBS's News Hour, Brooks comes across as a bright fellow who respects people with differing viewpoints and refrains from mean-spirited commentary. He also appears willing to challenge some of the orthodox faithful on his own side of the political spectrum. Unlike many modern-day conservatives, he rejects free-market fundamentalism and accepts the fact that government has a legitimate, even necessary, role to play. He just wants the appropriate ...
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