Moving day approaches: A letter to my dad

Dear Dad, I hope you and Katherine are doing well. Eddie and I are fine, except we are going to have to move. Now that President Obama is “leading a war on traditional marriage,” we are investigating other countries to inhabit. (I am so glad Rush Limbaugh pointed out Obama’s transgressions to us. You know [...]

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Let’s talk about sex, baby

I get it. I do. Rush Limbaugh makes his living by making outrageous statements and polarizing people. He thrives on controversy because that drives an increase in listeners. His livelihood depends on him being a jerk. So no one should be surprised at his latest antics, and that it took three days for him to [...]

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Reader discretion warning

Warning: This post contains graphic images and text that may be disturbing to sensitive readers. (Don’t say I didn’t warn you.) I don’t usually talk about politics in this blog, but I’m concerned about the Republican Party. They’ve had four years to get their act together and this is what they’ve come up with: How [...]

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Open letter to homophobes

Dear Straight Brethren (or Closeted Brethren Pretending to be Straight) Who Oppose Gay Marriage: I want to talk to you about something very important. I’d like to think that we’re all reasonable adults, and I hope you can open your mind to the points I am about to make. We both know that it really [...]

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Words for the week (weak?)

Writing a dissertation is a marathon, not a sprint. For me, it is a marathon that also includes deviations off the path to experience some waterboarding, flaying and pillorying. There is a special place in hell reserved for the people who devise the rules, regulations and procedures governing thesis projects and dissertations at state universities. [...]

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Publication envy

I must confess that I am jealous of Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson. “Who are they?” you might ask. If you did, then you are not one of the dozen or so people who have sent me the link to all the coverage of their amazing book, “The Great Typo Hunt.” I used to read [...]

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Sign language

I received a forwarded e-mail with the subject line “I think Beth might like this one.” It’s true. I do. The e-mail originated with Jason, significant other of frequent contributor Shane Marshall Brown. And here is the photo: That sounds like an offer I can’t refuse. I could use $7,500 and 15 extra years. I [...]

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BP stands for Bad PR

Oh, the irony in this sign at a BP station in Ohio. If I spilled anything at that station, I’d take my cue from the head of BP and I’d pretend it wasn’t that bad, blame everyone else, and then not let anyone else give me ideas on how to clean it up. Tony Hayward, [...]

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When duty calls

Warning: This post is fairly long, and without benefit of lots of links, images, videos, bullet points or any other means to break up the text. Just preparing you for the  story of my day in court. Court. Right. So, I had jury duty today. Unlike the other dozens of times that I got the [...]

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One beeellion dollars!

There was a rumor making the rounds that the Dow Jones industrial average nosedived 1,000 points in 15 minutes because some fool mistyped “billion” instead of “million” for an order to sell. It appears that wasn’t the case, but it was nice to see people pay attention to the power of the error. Even CNN’s [...]

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