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After Midnight

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A periodic look at life; mine, and the world's.

Added on: Jun 26th, 2007
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Michael Riley
Listed in: Personal Pop Culture
Tags: winter antonella barba american idol mistakes aarp mcdonald's coffee

Recent Posts

Ponzi, and other, schemes

Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 02:18 in bad puns, ponzi schemes, arthur fonzarelli, bernie madoff, challenging the thunder

The debate continues as to whether or not Bernie Madoff's $64.8 billion scam is the largest in American [or world, for that matter] history. That said, no one seems to be in any hurry to rename the type of fraud Madoff allegedly perpetrated in his "h...
Blog Action Day - So Many People In The Same Device

Posted on Wednesday October 14th, 2009 at 21:00 in climate change, jr, kurt vonnegut, ambrosia, blog action day

I am by no means the oldest blogger in the world, but, being in my 50's, I think I have a different perspective than the typical poster. For instance, I'm actually old enough to remember an era when music recordings were stored in analogue form, on v...
Is there something to "The Twinkie Defense" after all?

Posted on Monday October 5th, 2009 at 02:26

First of all, I'm assuming we all know what's meant by "The Twinkie Defense" [if unaware, please click on the hyperlink; it not only explains the term, it debunks the myth that it was successfully used in the case that first brought the term to nati...
Sinister Musings

Posted on Thursday September 24th, 2009 at 01:39 in returns, dorothy parker, famous left-handers

Okay, I'm back. My favorite writer, Dorothy Parker, was an expert at writing explanations for her frequent disappearances from the Public Eye [she once covered up a two-year gap in writing for The New Yorker by claiming she had spent the time in Swit...
Time Out...

Posted on Monday July 6th, 2009 at 22:31

It is with great regret that I must take a break from writing this blog. I have several personal matters to attend to, which will consume the vast majority of the time I used to spend writing it. As of now, I hope to return to blogging, in one form o...
The carnival is open...where the Hell am I?

Posted on Thursday July 2nd, 2009 at 22:33

It's been one of those weeks...I expected to have a "Can-Am Celebration!" post up here by yesterday...obviously, that hasn't happened. Sincere apologies to all of you who were waiting for it [all right, you weren't waiting all that strenuously for it...