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I got a call from my bank this afternoon. They were conducting a customer satisfaction survey. It was one question long. The guy asked “How satisfied are you with your Charter One account?”, I said “Completely satisified”, and that was … Continue reading →

Today is the birthday of my younger (but older-looking) brother, Adam. I almost always neglect to get him a gift, because I’m both consisently absent-minded and consistently poor. So, today, I’m just giving him a free, keyword-stuffed link to his … Continue reading →

Immediately after leaving graduate school, I got a job at little drug store on the Island. For some unknown reason (actually, I do know the reason: because I could read, write, and count, which is considered an exceptional skill set … Continue reading →

The Supreme Court waited until Flag Day to tell Michael Newdow (and the rest of us) that they weren’t going to change the Pledge of Allegiance. This wasn’t a great shock to me: many earlier analyses of the case had … Continue reading →

I remember when the local anarchists would show up at anti-war protests in Phoenix. They were easy to spot, because they always brought their own bullhorns, they wore ski-masks in August, and they were always trying to climb on top … Continue reading →

Back in the spring of 2001, I was working at a camera store in Scottsdale, Arizona when I decided it was time to buy a new wallet. At the time, I was still using the wallet I bought in grad … Continue reading →

It’s Sunday, it’s raining, and I’m still unemployed, so there’s no good reason for me not to be inside watching television all day. Flipping through the channels, I noticed that VH1 was showing Grease again. VH1 runs Grease a lot … Continue reading →

Barbara Bush (apparently, “the smart one” of the Bush Twins) graduated from Yale today. As with her sister’s graduation on Saturday, neither of her parents attended the graduation, supposedly because they didn’t want to inconvienence the other graduates with Presidential-level … Continue reading →

In 1968, Walter Cronkite returned to the United States after visiting Viet Nam and witnessing the Tet Offensive. He was distressed enough by what he saw to announce on national television that he thought the war was unwinnable. Legend has … Continue reading →

Want to hear a shameful confession? Until tonight, the script powering this weblog could only print entries in two timezones: Eastern Standard and Eastern Daylight. That’s fine for all the years I spent in Michigan and Ohio, but I lived … Continue reading →