This about covers it
I’m amazed by the pettiness and hysteria some people have been able to work up over the most simple events, like the trip to the Olympics to lobby for the U.S. I’m even more amazed by the way the media has been reporting on these nincompoops, as if they had something [...]
Posts Tagged ‘mini-rant’
Obama walks, Obama chews gum! At the same time!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged mini-rant on October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
the Polanski thing
Posted in not-writing, tagged life, mini-rant on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m old enough to remember when Polanski skipped the country. How disgusted I was that if you were rich and famous, you could get away with something like this. That the nobody he raped was going to have to live with this for the rest of her life while he was off living [...]
mailbox tale
Posted in not-writing, tagged family, life, mini-rant on September 30, 2009 | 8 Comments »
One of the joys of living in New England is that mailboxes die unnatural deaths.
sometimes it’s just shit
Posted in not-writing, tagged life, mini-rant on September 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lately I’ve seen a lot of supposedly comforting and supportive comments from people in various blogs and in real life, to the effect that “These bad things always happen for a purpose.” (I guess mainly because a lot of bad things have been happening recently.)
And sometimes that’s true. Sometimes life does set [...]
can we cut the name-calling, please?
Posted in not-writing, tagged mini-rant on September 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m so sick of all the name-calling over everything that gets said in politics these days.
Not everyone with reservations about how the administration’s proposed health plan will be run or paid for is a nut job, let alone right wing.
Not everyone who would prefer to see healthcare treated like a public resource [...]
