Bowen Craig 1) Hordes of zombie teenagers walking around, not talking to each other, staring into little blinking rectangles 2) A man claiming he was born the wrong gender, while not living in an insane asylum 3) Suburbanites walking around behind their dogs and collecting their poop in a bag 4) The news telling us to eat … Read more
The Biden administration seems to be doing everything politically possible to force Americans away from the internal combustion engine and into electric vehicles. Whether the Climate Change alarmists are right or wrong, this is still probably a noble goal, but is it a remotely feasible one? First off, the electric car is not the new … Read more
The news saying used to be “If it bleeds, it leads,” meaning that people like learning about violence and will probably read that story first anyway, so we might as well start off with the bloody stuff. This is why your local TV news broadcast is really just a crime report and the weather. Not … Read more
What ever happened to the once-popular notion of the customer always being right? That shit went out the door around 2004, didn’t it? Think about some iconic store from some hazy year in the early-20th century. Sears. You bought one of them newfangled refrigimerators that magically keep your food cold at Sears on your last … Read more
I read an article clearly written by a Millennial earlier today, which taught me a new internet acronym, IRL. The internet is as bad as the military in its overuse of acronyms, but unlike the military, apparently everyone under the age of thirty-five not only knows the meanings of these, but uses them online, and … Read more
I’m a tube sock guy. A proud tube sock guy. A relentless proponent of the tube sock. Maybe I’m just somewhat nostalgically stuck in the tube sock-laden era of my youth, the 1980’s, but I think my abiding love for the tube sock goes far beyond that. Tube socks are true, full and honest footunderwear … Read more
Even the fear-mongering Powers That Be, the very folks who brought us The Pandemic in the first place, by now have to begrudgingly admit that their experiment in fear and control is, at long last, over. Done. Finito. Sure, they keep trying to get us to buy into the new notion their magical “vaccines” are … Read more
So many news stories these days, on the lefty-side of our weird bifurcated information landscape, are about The First ____ to serve as ____ in American history. It’s usually a racial or sexual orientation thing, like the first Asian postmaster of the state of West Virginia, the first time Colorado has elected an openly gay governor, … Read more
Aren’t they just as dumb as teenagers have always been? First off, let me state the inescapable fact that I, too, was a moron when I was a teenager. I was just as rigidly righteous, just as stupidly savvy, and just as annoyingly arrogant as these Gen-Z morons…but back then the world didn’t care. The … Read more
…Or So I Argued to an Unnecessarily-Defensive Buddhist the Other Night I had the beginnings of a decent conversation with an argumentative white California Buddhist the other night at the Intermission of a local cabaret. I’ve had versions of this debate before, but twenty years ago I basically argued his point, and now I find … Read more