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
Do you believe in signs?
A few months back on NPR's hour-long interview program, Fresh Air, host Terry Gross was interviewing C. Peter Wagner, the man behind a rather interesting movement called The New Apostolic Reformation, part of a larger movement known in some circles as dominionism. Its followers… Read full post »
Aphorisms and Quotations! Special today!
Low cost doesn't necessarily indicate inferiority. A high price
is no guarantee of quality.
"The right thing to do ain't necessarily what you wanna do." - The
Who, “I'm A Farmer”
Not all darkness is evil. Not all light is benevolent.
Any new technology can and will be misused.
When a public… Read full post »
2012 - So far, a very bad year for sex, and for women
Last week, America's preeminent talk-show blowhard made on-air remarks which not that long ago would have ended any broadcaster's career in a
… Read full post »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."
-
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 »
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