Archive for the ‘rant’ Category
Chairty Starts at Home
I like CBS Sunday Morning, but once in a while one of their feel good stories doesn’t make me feel so good. Last week there was the story of a family of rich folks who were feeling a bit guilty about being rich. In the story the yuppie daughter looks out the car [...]
February 8, 2010
Tags: car window, cbs, cbs news, cbs sunday morning, charity, fame, fancy car, fifteen minutes, five dollars, happy meal, homeless man, little rich girl, national television, pay it forward, revelation, rich folks, swells, two million, work in africa, yuppie Posted in: current events, rant 
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Baymont Inn & Lairs
My work has taken me around the country and I have stayed in a lot of motels and hotels. For the most part this has been a pleasant enough experience. But there are a few things that can still piss me off about motels. Baymont Inn in Longview, Texas pissed me off [...]
January 29, 2010
Tags: baymont inn, biggie, double beds, five dollars, hotels, king size bed, lairs, longview texas, mistake, motels, next morning, receipt, single room, usa today Posted in: money, rant, travel No Comments
Kill All The Muslims-It’d Be A Good Start
Muslims are the bad guys in most of our real world stories, they like to blow themselves up while taking as many bystanders with them as possible, they like to fly planes into buildings, they like to think they are going to Heaven and everyone else is going to hell so why not get things [...]
November 8, 2009
Tags: fort hood, killing spree, mass murderer, professional killers Posted in: current events, politics, rant No Comments
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
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I read a book on writing one time that advised you take a common story and make the villain the hero. My first thought was The Wicked Witch of The West, it appears that this was also Gregory Maguire’s idea. Wicked is the story of Elphaba, the cursed child of a Unionist [...]
November 1, 2009
Tags: audio book, book review, fascists, gregory maguire, oz books, wicked witch of the west Posted in: book review, rant No Comments
