Back in November 2010, in the wake of the Redskins humiliating 28-59 loss to the Eagles in front of a national audience (to go the analogy route, normal football loss : Redskins loss to the Eagles :: Desert Storm : World War II), Dave McKenna of the Washington City Paper […]
If you don’t live in the DC area, you may never comprehend the sheer idiocy that I witnessed during Wednesday evening’s commute, in which the region was hit with a moderate-not large-amount of snow. (We’re talking at most eight inches, or, as I refer to it, a John’s worth. Hiyo!) […]
I don’t feel very proud admitting this, but last night, I skipped watching the State of the Union address. At first, I felt no remorse about the decision, but it didn’t take long for the Tweets tagged with “#SOTU” to begin popping up in greater and greater number. And, while […]
I apologize for the title, which sounds like a line from Shylock’s “If you prick us, do we not bleed?” speech in The Merchant of Venice. An Alabama law firm is alleging that Taco Bell’s beef, well, doesn’t legally qualify as beef. (To be exact, they found it to contained […]
Yesterday’s article, “I Miss AOL Instant Messenger (“article” sounds much more professional than “blog whose third paragraph I wrote while on the john”) seemed to get a lot of people reminiscing about the good old days of instant messenging, myself included. Tons of you reminded me that there was far […]
By today’s standards, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) is a friggin’ fossil. It does nothing other than let people send text messages to one another, a job Gchat, Facebook and your cell phone have more than taken over by this point. But in its day, there was one thing AIM had […]
*Unless it’s on HBO and I’m sitting unswashed on my couch at 3pm on a Sunday, in which case, sure, what the hell. The Social Network tells the tale of a Jew who attended Harvard and went on to make billions of dollars. Now I know that’s a story we […]
Do you wish someone a happy MLK day? It sounds a little morbid, given the whole assassination aspect of it all. What I do know is this: Enough of you are off work today and thus not online that I ain’t writing sheeeeit. Instead, I’m going to go eat my […]
I have a cat (there’s something inherently creepy about a heterosexual male saying that, but bear with me). It craps in a box, lives on a pillow under the heater, only intermittently shows any interest in me and, every few years, costs me several hundred dollars at the vet. But […]