“If you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have any pudding”

Pink slime is in the news and no, I’m not talking about The Susan G. Komen Foundation for the Cure, again. This slime is literal rather than metaphorical. ABC News ran a story on the amount of “filler” used in hamburger meat. According to the story, this slime is: beef trimmings. Once only used in [...]

Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1

University in America is a scam. Scam! I went to my University’s student orientation class this evening and learned quite a few things. First, the University has a health department “fee” that gets added on to tuition. I tried to explain that I already have health insurance and would not be using the facilities at [...]

Wrap Rage

Usually I can go quite a while before getting upset enough to rant and rave. Today’s target, and one that truly deserves a double barrel full of rant, is packaging. What is up with companies and packaging? Don’t they want me, the consumer, to purchase their products? If so why do they package items in [...]

Goodbye Cruel World

This commercial is disturbing. While I can see where Johnson & Johnson are going with this ad, the message of the commercial comes out wrong. I totally get the “caring” aspect of the advertisement and I personally feel hospice nurses and volunteers are heroes. Heroes. However, in addition to showing how much the nurse cares [...]

A Great Day for Freedom

Your movements are being watched and noted. And so are mine. Paranoia? Hardly. I have long been against “helpful” systems such as ADT, OnStar, and SPOT devices simply because they are nothing more than a means to track people’s movements. Oh, they do a great job in advertising how safe and convenient their products are, [...]

Time

It’s time to manipulate the clocks again and go back to normal. I really hate this daylight savings thing. It’s an idea whose time has passed (pardon the pun). Completely outlived its usefulness and needs to seriously go away. Oh I understand the original concept, allowing more hours of daylight in a “working day,” but [...]

The Happiest Days of Our Lives

Of all the holidays celebrated through the calendar year, Halloween has to be my favorite. Set aside the religious aspects of Halloween for a bit (yes, there definitely are some) and just think about the holiday itself. Is there any other time of year when giving is more satisfying? Think about it. You go out [...]

Coming Back To Life

The Mountain Ridge Paranormal Research Society has sponsored a haunted house in order to raise money for a hospital. Their theme is of an asylum haunting and the scene is at a former psychiatric hospital. Sounds like fun, right? Enter the party-poopers. Yep, these Radford University students are protesting the exhibition because it is “disrespectful [...]

Embryo

Bank of America has caused a shit storm in the general populace by charging a $5.00 fee for debit card use. This monthly fee would cost people at least $60.00 a year to spend their own money. That’s right. Paying to spend your own money. Double that if you have a spouse or partner with [...]

The Great Gig In The Sky

The other day a Jehovah’s Witness came to the door. Normally I brush these folks aside but on this particular day I was bored. So, I decided to engage this fellow in some friendly dialogue. After turning down his offer of a copy of The Watchtower (I told him to keep it and give it to [...]