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Merry Christmas
I'm going to watch a couple of flicks with my partner, play video games, and eat rice and beans with pernil -- and pasteles. Merry Christmas!...
Comments, Again
When I first launched this blog, I enabled the comments feature and opened it to all -- the registered and the anonymous. Then later, for various reasons, I restricted comments to registered users. Great news: That ends today. Comments will now be op...
Dexter Morgan Made Me Do It
I feel really sad for the guy
Apparently, airplanes don't provide larger seats for big people. So unfair. I think the airlines should have a couple of seats available for the obese. I mean, jeebus, look at the guy. I bet he feels so uncomfortable. A lot of people have said that B...
Wheee!
Today is the first day of my one-week vacation. I'm very excited. A couple of things I plan to do:1) Spend some time pondering why I find myself rooting for a serial killer name Dexter Morgan.2) Call this cabbie that smacked right into my car as I wa...
Comments
It's not like I get many comments, but I just noticed that the comments feature has been disabled. Dunno how that happened. Anyways, it should be up in a sec.UPDATE: For personal reasons, I temporarily disabled the comments feature. If you'd like to ...
Blog Discovery Of The Day
Cop in the Hood is a blog written by John Jay College Professor Peter Moskos. He's the author of Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District. Go check it out. He's right about Bill Bratton....
Blog Title
A good friend of mine wants to know why I have my name as the title of my blog. I'm going to share with you, dear readers, what I just told him via email: Well, because I'm not creative and couldn't come up with a name that I liked. For the first few...
Blog Title
A good friend of mine wants to know why I have my name as the title of my blog. I'm going to share with you, dear readers, what I just told him via email: Well, because I'm not creative and couldn't come up with a name that I liked. For the first few...
KFC Beatdown
Check this out: A couple, upset over the slow delivery of their Kentucky Fried Chicken, assaulted a man at the fast food restaurant in Norwell, police said.The Patriot Ledger reported that witnesses said the couple yelled profanities at the restauran...
KFC Beatdown
On the one hand, I laud the guy for standing up for the children. On the other, I think it was really stupid of him for opening up his mouth. Here you have a belligerent couple shouting profanities at the KFC employees -- God knows what the fuck they...
Polanski
Heard about the story earlier this week and just wanted to say something about it. Nothing novel here though: As all of you know, Roman Polanski raped a child many years ago. He drugged her to rape her, got caught and plead guilty, then fled the coun...
Polanski
Heard about the story earlier this week and just wanted to say something about it. Nothing novel here though: As all of you know, Roman Polanski raped a child many years ago. He drugged her to rape her, got caught and plead guilty, then fled the coun...
Twitter
I had lots of fun with my fellow Twitterers, but I'm done. I'm done with Twitter. It's just not for me. I'm here and Twitter is over there. Why go over there if I can say and link to whatever I want right here on my blog?Anyway, if you want to kick i...
Blogroll
Added two links over on the right. Going to add a couple more -- slowly....
Back on the scene, crispy and clean...
I'm back! Still a couple of more personal issues I gotta take care of, but I'll try really hard to keep this blog active from here on out. Dang, you don't know how much I miss blogging and chatting with my friends and readers on the Web! (My readersh...
Dope
The Daily News, again: Cops' traffic stop turns up 100 pounds of dope stashed in casket.For those who don't know: calling weed "dope" is a pet peeve of mine. Dope is heroin, not weed. Argh!...
Just voted for Obama
No problems at the polling site. No long wait....
Condolences
Just heard that Obama's grandmother died. This is terrible news. Damn. I read a piece about Toot a while back. She was a good person, and did a good job (and did what was right) of raising and loving Barack Obama. She will not be here to see her gran...
Light blogging
Apologies. I've been very busy lately. Going through a lot of crazy stuff. I'll try to blog about a few things this weekend, or just link to stories and blog posts readers might find interesting. Things will pick up around here soon. So don't abandon...
Singles map
Wanna know where all the singles are? Check this out.New York/N.J./Northern PA: Singles 25 - 64 years old: 24 extra single women per 1,000 people....
Deep thought
Thank God this presidential election campaign is almost over....
"I've never seen a panic like this"
Stocks are on track for their worst year since 1937.In Baghdad, stocks are up....
I'm full
National Punctuation Day
Perfect day to talk about my grammatical errors and bland writing style. No, I'm serious. Who wants to set it off?...
"Devastating Ike roars ashore in Galveston"
I hope everyone who decided to stick it out is okay....
September 11
A Memorial....
Quote for the Day
"Every time I thought I was getting somewhere, they’d start speaking Spanish," -- Charlie Rangel, explaining yesterday why he had not been aware of the unpaid taxes and income of a villa he owns in the Dominican Republic.(Mr. Rangel wants us to ser...
The origins of "lipstick on a pig"
Go read Ben Zimmer. And if you haven't already, bookmark the site....
"They were laughing."
CNN:Two men charged with beating a homeless man to death and viciously attacking two others intended to kill because they repeatedly hit the victims in the head with baseball bats, a prosecutor said Thursday....Norris Gaynor, 45, was beaten to death ...
