sometimes, you just want a cigar
One of the advantages of working at a smokeshop is that I get to smoke on the job. I don’t often show my ugly mug on this blog, but a friend recently snapped this pic of your humble scribe doing one...
View Articlebe afraid. be very afraid
I don’t normally write a post strictly about something that someone else has written, but once in a while someone says what I’ve been thinking better than I could say it myself. In today’s Boston Globe...
View ArticleI’m not going anywhere
It was all going so well, too. But all of a sudden, my little ship of life sailed into some stormy waters. I won’t bore you with the details. You have your problems; you don’t need to hear about mine....
View ArticleMore things that are pissing me off
One of the great things about living in Massachusetts is that it is impossible for me to pick up a newspaper and not find something that winds me up so much I want to blog about it. Unfortunately, I...
View ArticleThe shakedown begins today
Normally, I don’t like to let other people speak for me, but today I read this column by Howie Carr of the Boston Herald, and it’s as if he had read my mind. This is one of those rare times when I can...
View ArticleYet Another Rant
More things that puzzle, perplex, and just plain piss me off. In yet another sad and infuriating case of political correctness trumping over literacy, Dallas County Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield was...
View ArticleThey’re coming to take me away, ha! ha!
In a way, I hate to follow up something comparatively thoughtful like the poem in my last post with something as inane as this. In fact, I hadn’t really planned on posting anything tonight. But since...
View ArticleDemocracy? We don’t need no stinkin’ democracy!
Greetings from Loony Massachusetts, the second goofiest state in the country! This one has me really riled up! It may seem at first like a local issue, but it is already happening in other parts of...
View ArticleThe Dog Ate My Homework
I just wanted to say, yes, I have noticed the comments that have been left on my last two posts. I had every intention of responding to all of them tonight, but…………………the Red Sox and Rays played into...
View ArticleGet healthy, or else!
I read this rather disturbing article in the Associated Press today, in which it is reported that “Manchester is hoping to fight fat with a reward system that works like a retail loyalty card. But...
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