It’s that time of year when we rummage through stuff and decide that which we can jettison and that without which we just cannot bear life. It is a ritual, one for which the Puritans’ John Winthrop would be patting me on the back (if he indeed were allowed to touch… Read full post »

I had my first public melt down the other day.

I was at a health insurance reform vigil at my Senator’s office when some poor young political campaign staffer made a mistake. He asked me how I was doing. 

I just couldn’t do the “socially correct” happy talk and… Read full post »

The news from the White House is grim. Joblessness not only won't get better, it might, in fact, get worse. Here in Florida it is over 10% already. For every "open" job there are at least 7 applicants. Once again, I began to think about all those “quizzes” on facebook...

Songw… Read full post »

Back in “the day,” I loved to hate her…that sparkling smile, all that wind-swept blonde hair. She was the anathema of the “feminists.” She was the “air head” that embodied every quality I and many of my friends, did not ever want to have. She was the li… Read full post »

Given the state of the economy I got to wondering. I see all these social-media-micro-market-targeting “quizzes” on facebook these days, why don’t these “apps” include some of the following?

Songweasel has taken the “If you must be poor, you’d like… Read full post »