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 The Fuddler. Non-comm, attrib, no derivs.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Do you believe in signs?
May 16, 2012 09:20PM - Aphorisms and Quotations!
Special today!
April 01, 2012 10:22PM - 2012 - So far, a very bad year
for sex, and for women
March 03, 2012 03:18PM - Some very unconventional
advice about romance.
February 11, 2012 02:56PM - Is Sex Addiction A (Genuine)
Social Disease?
January 22, 2012 04:34PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Whatever others may
think of what you've done, I
say right
on, sister. There
are…”
May 16, 2012 10:39PM - “It’s just that,
while there might be hell to
pay,
I’m less scared
of…”
May 16, 2012 10:32PM - “William S. Burroughs
once casually observed that if
we were
embroiled in a
civil…”
May 16, 2012 10:11PM - “True compassion does
not come from wanting to help
those
less fortunate than
ours…”
April 14, 2012 04:16PM - “"Ye Olde Stout
Limbaugh"...sounds almost like
a brand of
micro-brewed
b…”
April 02, 2012 12:03AM
Thefuddler's Links
"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 »What's one way Canada is different from the United States?
(NOTE: While this posting is not explicit, it does mention sex and very briefly discusses certain sexual lifestyles. Some links in this posting lead to sites which may not be safe to view at work or in other sensitive environments).
I don't claim to be an expert… Read full post »
Four decades later, my guts still clench.
Things were pretty scary in the spring of 1970. The Vietnam War, which we'd thought was winding down had instead just been expanded into a new front, Cambodia. I was in high school. My classmates and I tried to speculate… Read full post »
Sex Education, Nixon-Era Style
(NOTE: While not explicit, this posting contains descriptions of sex and sexuality which some may find offensive).
It was the early 1970s. The Beatles had broken up. Astronauts had been to the
… Read full post »A Public Service Announcement (with some guitars)
When you said “radio” in the 1960's, you usually meant AM. It's dominated by talk shows now, but back then, AM radio was where you found rock and roll. FM was for… Read full post »
If we all had a choice...
As I've pointed out in previous postings, I am an industry-standard heterosexual (I have my official certificate here someplace...ah, there it is!). Having said that, I need to talk about something that's been bouncing around in my head for quite some time now.
… Read full post »Ready for summer? Not me!
Photo Creative Commons PMG 2010. Non-comm, attrib., no derivs.
Poor Punxsutawney Phil. That's the groundhog, as in Groundhog Day (the holiday, not the movie), who lives in a rural Pennsylvania town. The superstition goes that if the little furball climbs out of his hole and sees his s… Read full post »
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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