Tag Archives: Opinion

Today’s modern idiocy, Sunday 4/14/19 edition

Posted on April 14, 2019 by Steve

I have yet to write about the cool go-karts at Pinballz Lake Creek but today I experienced one of the new wrinkles smart phones have given us. This one teenager was so busy futzing with the tunes on his phone … Continue reading →

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Five thousand posts!

Posted on April 6, 2019 by Steve

Well that kind of snuck up on me. I wish I could’ve timed it better to coincide with a better life event such as my 20th anniversary as an official Apple employee (next week) or something more worthy (wedding, birthday). … Continue reading →

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1979: The Three Mile Island Disaster

Posted on March 28, 2019 by Steve

For better or for worse, the accident that happened at this American nuclear power plant changed the country’s opinion about how safe this type of energy generation was. Thanks to TMI (before it became the abbreviation for Too Much Information), … Continue reading →

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Another year without a Shamrock Shake

Posted on March 17, 2019 by Steve

I need to get off my butt and write a polite, complaint letter to the McDonald’s corporation regarding them letting this tradition lapse. Maybe it’s a Texas problem, I need input from all of you who live in other US … Continue reading →

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1989: Gorbachev pushes for a reform with Soviet farming

Posted on March 15, 2019 by Steve

In anticipation of the upcoming documentary Meeting Gorbachev, I found this little piece about Soviet History as their last leader tried to stem the superpower’s decline. I’m looking forward to seeing this movie: German director Werner Herzog will be interviewing Gorbachev, … Continue reading →

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Annual stupidity begins, aka DST

Posted on March 10, 2019 by Steve

When I was a kid, I didn’t mind Daylight Savings Time as much. It didn’t start until April and in the Midwest its arrival meant that Spring was here to stay…usually. The original purpose for DST in the Modern Era … Continue reading →

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1929: First Academy Awards (Oscars®) announced

Posted on February 18, 2019 by Steve

Overall, I really don’t give two shits about them since the people who do the voting suffer from a huge disconnect from just about everybody. It’s not that they often give the award to movies that are often boring and/or … Continue reading →

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Maybe karma is real

Posted on February 17, 2019 by Steve

What a great weekend I had and I have to say it’s all due to being nice to children. Now you’re like, well Steve, you’re supposed to be nice to children. Of course, but I was nice to them in … Continue reading →

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1809: Charles Darwin & Abraham Lincoln born

Posted on February 12, 2019 by Steve

As Emo Philips has a joke: Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln have the same birthday which is fitting because they’re the two biggest enemies of the South. Being an American living in any region, even abroad, it is a painfully … Continue reading →

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1979: The Shah of Iran flees, 40 years of hate gets rolling

Posted on January 16, 2019 by Steve

America’s brutal puppet fled Iran giving Ayatollah Khomeini and his religious thugs the opening they needed to create a different, brutal Islamic theocracy which has been a thorn in the world’s side ever since. The outcome shouldn’t be a shock … Continue reading →

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Header change was needed

Posted on January 6, 2019 by Steve

I went with this snapshot of the landscape from Idiocracy as a tribute to the current Federal Government shutdown being caused by the Shitgibbon’s stubbornness. He wants to be true to his racist base despite walls not working, ask the Chinese … Continue reading →

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Finally, something new after several weeks

Posted on December 20, 2018 by Steve

The last thing I posted was Somara’s return from her vacation abroad (Netherlands, Qatar). Besides candy, pictures and memories, she brought back bronchitis thanks to a discourteous traveller on the flight to London, not from, to. Thus, her trip was … Continue reading →

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End of a long week

Posted on November 10, 2018 by Steve

This week was a huge let down in the intelligent, educated (ergo, Librul) parts of Texas. The twin specters of the entrenched Confederacy and lazy non-voters handed my adopted home another four yeas of tyranny under the Republicans. They don’t … Continue reading →

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This month’s header, They Live turns 30

Posted on November 4, 2018 by Steve

Given our current state of affairs, it’s only appropriate to celebrate John Carpenter’s social commentary masterpiece, released on this day. The header took a little work to get it to work and I found this anti-Trump one weeks ago. No … Continue reading →

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What follows in a Google search…

Posted on September 24, 2018 by Steve

Allegedly, these are the first adjectives to follow the names of various Texas cities. I take issue with a couple of them. Firstly, Wichita Falls is “hot”? Compared to where Houston, Austin, Laredo, etc are located, I find that odd. … Continue reading →

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