Category Archives: Meanderings

I have always—always wondered what the hell “reading them the riot act” meant. I knew there was a Riot Act, but I never got it. But then I found this nifty website, which explains what that prhase means. In English … Continue reading →

Whenever my friends and I were tired of talking about a subject (often after a serious discussion), someone would say, “So, how about those Yankees?” It was code for “Change the subject, this is boring/depressing/over with.) Scanned the news today. … Continue reading →

Why Americans are better than Islamists, Reason One: They have fatwas. We have WaWas.

Today, while talking to a friend or two, I made the following comparison: A flea is an annoyance that must be hunted down and destroyed, as are flies and mosquitoes. But a gnat? Most people ignore gnats, at most, waving … Continue reading →

I was just looking around for various statistics, and discovered that I am older than more than a third of the people in America. Wait. That means that I’m younger than nearly two-thirds. I feel much better now.

If one needs to open a can with a can opener, one should probably not put it in the dishwasher and then run the dishwasher before one opens the can. Just sayin’.

Have you ever notice that the more stressed out and angry you get, the stupider the world gets? I swear, my IQ must go up fifty points when I’m going through tough times.

Did I really, truly think that ELP was anything other than facile, puerile, pretentious pap? Just go look at the lyrics to Closer to Believing and you’ll see what I mean.

A tip for you all: If you ever drop a box of toothpicks, make sure you find them all. Half an inch of pointed, wooden toothpick in the ball of your foot is a very unpleasant experience.

If you don’t want your child to be traumatized for life, trust me when I tell you that it is not funny to pretend you’re going to throw your daughter into the alligator pit at the Staten Island Zoo. I … Continue reading →

The average ear of corn holds 800 kernels. You’re welcome.

is that you have to roll down the windows of your car to air out your car once you’re out of the range of the skunk. You know, if there’s a worse odor than skunk, I do not want to … Continue reading →

Constructionalism and the Constitution Continue reading →

I have some Amazon gift certificates that I banked, and I want to use them up to buy something, but I just can’t decide. Should I get the Firefly TV/movie set? Should I get season two of Babylon 5? Season … Continue reading →

So I make it through the worst of Virginia’s pollen season. We’re about done here, folks, and we’re like number seven in the nation (and not in a good way) for allergens. And I’m going to NJ this weekend for … Continue reading →

Random food thought Continue reading →

What is that high-pitched tone? Continue reading →

My own website is down. The server it’s on is down. The enemy’s gate is… Nah. The datacenter it’s in is “experiencing problems” and will be back up and available shortly. That’s what I’m telling people who are writing in … Continue reading →

Random junk food thought Continue reading →

Random California gas emission thought Continue reading →