Category: General Ranting

The World Wide Interweb is a funny thing.  Because it greatly reduces face-to-face interaction, it’s hard to tell if someone is happy or sad, being serious or sarcastic, mildly anxious or standing on the side...

Dang, people.  You know how to work a great cliffhanger. Ever since Friday morning, we’ve been sitting at 499 in the Who Will Be 500? giveaway.  Finally, at 4:17 PM Monday afternoon, #500 reared her...

We’re getting dangerously close to the 200th post on this thing, and you know what 200 posts mean: a lot of you have taken time to share your (sometimes) smart-alecky wisdom with the readers of...

I’m sinking to a new low today, dear readers: as I sit in my alternate office, I am eavesdropping on a fellow latte swiller and listening to his cell phone conversation about lunch meats.  And...

I know that many of you have been waiting with baited breath (mmm…smells like mackerel) to see what the big announcement is that was mentioned earlier this week.  Well friends, wonder no more.  Here it...

Dear Sultans of Spam: I want to congratulate you on stepping up your game.  No longer are you trying to sell me a watch, asking me to invest in gold, or telling me that a...

It’s Monday morning.  My brain is still asleep.  So ladies and gentlemen, since I can’t be funny, I give you one of my all time favorite comedians, Mr. Bob Newhart (it’s the best six minutes...

Today kicks off Audience Participation Week, where I pick the topic and you pick three completely unrelated words that I have to work into the topic.  Cheesy?  Yes.  Gimmicky?  Sure.  Challenging?  So far, you betcha....

Okay gang, you’ve been quiet as of late.  Maybe 121 baptisms don’t excite you the way they excite me.  Maybe you don’t think a prayer cross is funny.  Maybe pictures of ducks don’t elicit the...