I am not a fan of Christmas by any stretch of the imagination. Oh, sure, I used to love it when I was a kid, but that was mostly because I liked getting the presents. I still remember me and my brother going absolutely insane and shrieking and jumping up and down with joy when we opened up a present to find a Commodore 64 inside. It was even better than the year that I got Castle Greyskull and my brother got Snake Mountain. But now? It just isn’t the same.
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Dysfunction rears its Yuletide head
December 12th, 2008 · No Comments
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Police no knock MD mayor’s house, shoot his two dogs.
August 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment
In another ringing endorsement on the state of law enforcement in this country, we bring you to Berwyn Heights, Maryland, where the mayor was held and his dogs executed. Full story from the local major newspaper here. The execution of this is just so full of fail that it makes me ill. Here’s the timeline of events.
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Rage against the coffee machine
March 25th, 2008 · No Comments
A long time ago, back in the ’90s, it became no longer fashionable to be a Young Urban Professional (yuppie). Reaganomics effectively died with Black Monday, the stock market crash in 1987. Teenagers, always a bastion of change and rebellion, ushered in a new culture in the late ’80s. Fueled by the alternative music scene [...]
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Gastronomy Domine
March 17th, 2008 · No Comments
People who live in upper middle class suburbs but do nothing but complain about the suburbs hold a special place of ill will in my heart, particularly the ones from the boomer generation. But for now, I’ll just focus on metropolitan gastronomic hayseeds.
As you may infer from my name for them, metropolitan gastronomic hayseeds are [...]
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