thefuddler
- Location
- Future 86, New York, USA
- Birthday
- December 10
- Company
- My own
- Bio
- I'm a reasonably good writer with an Internet connection. I'm rather opinionated on certain topics. I live in a town whose primary function is as a rest stop at the intersection of two interstate highways. I have too many radios!
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “I used to be glad that I
wasn't around for the two
world
wars, the (first)
Great…”
1:51AM - “Business ethics is to
ethics what military music is
to
music...”
1:36AM - “Let's see, two key
members of The Who (Keith Moon
and John
Entwhistle) have
long…”
1:16AM - “What the brass at that
book festival did was so
disgracefully
chickenshit,
manipu…”
1:00AM - “Will my country ever
grow the hell up about sex,
and stop
granting legitimacy
to…”
February 09, 2010 12:27AM
Thefuddler's Links
Try a little subversive tenderness.
One participant in a web forum which I frequent said that whenever she's not in a relationship she sends Valentine cards, the little, inexpensive ones, to all of her friends on Valentines Day, sometimes with candy. That got me to thinking, how clever. Taking… Read full post »
24 Hours, and then it's done!
NOTICE: All links below should be considered non-work-safe (NSFW) The above video is "PG-13-rated".
It's February again. And we all know what that means. Yes, it's time for the great debate or whine-fest, depending on who you talk to concerning a perennial event which occurs smack… Read full post »
Fumbling common sense.
This year's Super Bowl comes with an extra - a paid political advertisement from the right-wing nonprofit Focus on the Family. While not a radio or TV ministry per se, they've allied themselves with that political sector, spending much of
… Read full post »Pisser dans un violon
This expression is the first thing which popped into my head after… Read full post »
Respect the vinyl but don't diss the discs!
My own opinion on the ongoing analog-versus-digital brouhaha is this: if a record is a $300.00 collector's item and the CD reissue is $16.95, I believe the digital medium should be given a chance to demonstrate its merits. On the other hand, if a
… Read full post »Things to read during the End-Times (first in a series)
Charles Hugh Smith: Surviving the Next 20 Years from DANGEROUS MINDS on Vimeo.
As with too-big-to-fail banks and brokerage firms, bad times are a bonanza for authors of books which, as the blurb says, offer “practical principles, not just for surviving, but… Read full post »
Why am I an atheist?
...True enough, even a superstitious man has certain inalienable rights. He has a right to harbor and indulge his imbecilities as long as he pleases, provided only he does not try to inflict them upon other men by force. ...
… Read full post »A Day In The Life Of Joe Republican
This article has been making the rounds of the interwebs for quite some time now. I've taken the liberty of editing and updating it.
Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee.
… Read full post »Accepted virtues and popular cliches reconsidered.
Patience is sometimes a vice.
There's a fine line between courage and stupidity.
Lust is healthy. The most appalling sex crimes are committed by those who are sexually repressed and maladjusted.
Chastity is not an actual virtue. As anyone who's been
… Read full post »It's 1969, OK? (A straight man's rant)
(Loyalty oath department: I am an industry-standard heterosexual.).
Please note that some links may be NSFW.
Back in the day, a popular sport among cops who were bored, or prosecutors in search of a quick promotion was to raid a gay bar. They'd send in the
… Read full post »Attention all hetero couples - Let's just suppose...
This just in: The Huffington
Post has published
a copy of the "compromise" on abortion in the Senate version of
health care reform.
[NOTE - The 'precaution' link may be NSFW]
Assuming that the insurance companies don't shoot down health care reform as they've done/… Read full post »
In case you've forgotten...
You probably won't hear very much about this on Fox News, but there's another invading army in Iraq besides ours. It's not connected with the US military, but it apparently operates with the full knowledge and consent of certain American military officials.
This
… Read full post »URGENT - Don't let blue dog torpedo abortion OR health care
[NOTE: This article was written before health care reform passed in the House tonight.
It will still be necessary to c0ntact your senators to make certain that it passes in the Senate as well, that no one tries to block its passage (can you say Joe Lieberman?)… Read full post »
On singularity...
I'm not married. At my age (old enough to remember Watergate) not being married is kind of like being as old as I am now and not having reached puberty. But what I dislike worst of all is the label that
… Read full post »I sure miss Ma Bell...
Photo Creative Commons 2009. Non-comm., attrib., no derivs.
Last week, I found an mid-1970's-vintage desk telephone. It was sitting out at the curb next to boxes of trash, and an old steel record caddy full of 45 RPM records (which I also glommed).… Read full post »
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