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!
All postings in this blog are Creative Commons 2010 The Fuddler. Non-comm, attrib, no derivs.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Some very unconventional
advice about romance.
February 11, 2012 02:56PM - Is Sex Addiction A (Genuine)
Social Disease?
January 22, 2012 04:34PM - A few brief (but powerful)
reminiscences about World War
II
December 08, 2011 11:20PM - Something about a run of
ones...
November 11, 2011 01:09PM - The 9/11 hype, and why I'm
boycotting it from now on..
September 11, 2011 12:48AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “How true, Mr. Cordle. If
people weren't so conditioned
to
*resign* themselves
to…”
7:12PM - “Random blog-fluff
generators. Why, they're just
as useful as
Beanie Babies or
pog…”
3:29PM - “(Out-of-control italics
were not intentional!)”
3:18PM - “Not to advocate anything
illegal or anything, but
who
you get high with
is actua…”
3:17PM - “Even more than the
fact that this legislation
demeans a
woman’s
ability to…”
January 25, 2012 07:34PM
Thefuddler's Links
Some very unconventional advice about romance.
As an old girlfriend and I were driving into town one day in her 1998 Toyota, a passing gravel truck dropped a bit of its carelessly-secured load right in front of us.
… Read full post »Is Sex Addiction A (Genuine) Social Disease?
(Some links may be NSFW)
By the time I'd gotten to the corner, the bus had already rounded the opposite corner, leaving me in a cloud of diesel smoke.
It was the early 1980's. I had left
… Read full post »A few brief (but powerful) reminiscences about World War II
Last Wednesday marked the seventieth anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Although World War II was well before my time, and apparently none of my
… Read full post »Something about a run of ones...
It's a coincidence that doesn't happen very often, a run of the same digits when you write out a date numerically. You probably remember 9/9/99 even if you can't recall what you were doing on that day. (Some of
… Read full post »The 9/11 hype, and why I'm boycotting it from now on..
Like a lot of other bloggers, I'm here writing my recollections of the day in which the worst attack on American soil since 1865 occurred. I could write pages of florid prose, but because I know there's plenty of that in the traditional media and blogosphere, I'll give
… Read full post »And that's the way it was and is.
My father called him “Mister Disease”. He wasn't slagging on America's most trusted news man, he was just cracking a pun. In his mother
… Read full post »The next best thing to being there.
Paying For It, Writing About It.
A graphical memoir about a subject which no one wants to talk about but everyone has an opinion on.
Some weeks ago, I was at the gym working out on the rowing machine when I spied a young Asian man over near the free weights. He was wearing a… Read full post »
It didn't happen. Now what?
"The evaporation of 4 million who believe this crap would leave the world an instantly better place."
- poet and NPR commentator Andrei Condrescu, speaking about a pamphlet abour The Rapture which he was handed by a
… Read full post »Wesleyan students defend Planned Parenthood.
I found the video you see above via Susie Bright's Twitter feed (go, Susie!). The students who made this definitely knew what they were doing, and saying.
(One kid jokingly drops the F-Bomb at the very beginning, otherwise the rest of it is pretty much PG-rated.)… Read full post »
Too Much Information, or How I Learned To Start Worrying
I'm a Cold War baby. My generation lived under the Damoclean sword of nuclear war. I grew up taking part in those laughably pointless duck-and-cover drills which all American schoolchildren participated in in preparation for World War III, also known as “The Big Showdown with the Russi… Read full post »
Smell The Coffee, It's 1980 Again.
The newly-dominant Republicans in the House of Representatives are bound and determined to show all those freedom-hating liberals just who is charge. One way which they plan to achieve this noble end is by sticking it to the environmental
… Read full post »Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Up Close And Personal!
Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made. - Mark Twain
Listen to the Youtube clips you see above. Don't forget to pick your jaw up off the floor afterward.
Not since the Wikileaks affair have we gotten
… Read full post »No Valentine yet (and that's OK)
I keep telling myself that V-Day (or VD as some folks refer to it for some Freudian reason) is a commercial holiday, that the red plastic, foil and cardboard hearts which I see everywhere have no more significance than the plastic mistletoe and the strings of colored lights I… Read full post »
This posting deals with human sexuality. It may not be work-safe.
(I began this article as a comment to another blogger's posting. I decided to make it a full-length posting because I wanted/… Read full post »
Let's just say...
Freedom is when one may do whatever one pleases within reason and with proper regard for the rights and the well-being of others.
License is when one does whatever one pleases but without regard for the rights or the well-being of others, let alone reason.
Free… Read full post »
How I met John Lennon (Sort Of)
I was fascinated by jukeboxes when I was a kid. They were everywhere when I was growing up – in greasy-spoon diners, in upscale eateries and even in the dining room of the posh country club which my father
… Read full post »An Idea Whose Time May Have Come Again?
For those of you who haven't yet heard, like economic disaster another unwelcome phenomenon from the distant past has made a comeback.
I refer of course to bedbugs.
The little bastards only existed in biology and pest-control industry literature when I was growing up. I only
… Read full post »Book Burning Canceled, Desired Effect Achieved
Did you hear about that pastor, the one down in Florida? He's not gonna do it after all.
Do what?
You didn't hear? He was going to burn a Muslim holy
… Read full post »Who is Target targeting?
Following is an excerpt from an article from consumerist.com. I think that what it talks about is more than a little
… Read full post »Is America ready to get Raptured (politically)?
"The evaporation of 4 million who believe this crap would leave the world an instantly better place."
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Poet Andrei Condrescu's 1996 comment on NPR regarding a pamphlet he was handed by a street preacher in New Orleans, which described how believers in the
"This is about a person who has recently died"
Ever have one of those things happen where you're thinking about someone or something for no apparent reason?
As I was driving home from visiting family last
… Read full post »"You're gonna love my cuts..."
Early hip-hop MC's used to rap over breaks and rhythm lines played directly from vinyls by highly-skilled DJ's. No laptops, no auto-tune, just two turntables and a mixer. In the early 80's, digital samplers began showing up in studios and at gigs. The original purpose of these device
… Read full post »Controls on outsourcing - can it happen?
I don't know about you, but my opinion of a company goes down a few dozen notches when I call up their "customer service" department, only to find out that I've been connected to a phone slave half a world away. No offense intended
… Read full post »No stopping the slopping
It's over 40 days as of this writing since the sinking of a floating deep-water oil rig triggered the worst marine oil spill in
… Read full post »Thefuddler's Favorites
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