My Super Sweet Sixteen Made Me Ill

Have you ever thrown up just a little bit in your mouth?  I did today when I watched an episode of “My Super Sweet Sixteen” on MTV.  They should rename this show “How Not to Raise a Child”. It all started going south for me when the show intro started.  It basically shows a bunch [...]

Crazy Crazy Week

Sorry about the silence on the blog lately.  We’ve had kind of a disastrous week.  We live in the Pacific Northwest and were hit with a significant storm last Thursday.  Winds peaked at 69 miles per hour at our house and we lost a couple sections of fence.  Not a big deal. With the storm [...]

Gangsters Need to let Pimps Show Them how to Run a Business

I stumbled on to an interesting article about the underground economy.  This article basically summarizes a book called, “Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor”.  Here is a quote from the article: “On that one residential block, Venkatesh focuses on three women: Bird, a prostitute; Eunice, an office cleaner who sells home-cooked meals [...]

Cadillac Escalade Golf Cart

Hmmmm.  At what point have we reached pure and utter excess in society when people start buying $13,000 Cadillac Escalade golf carts.  I don’t know about you, but I’d be horrendously embarrassed to drive this around the golf course.  Then again, since I golf at public PAR 3 courses, it would seem even more ridiculous!