Blame Tom Sawyer: Americans have a skewed view of childhood and summertime. We associate the school year with oppression and the summer months with liberty. School is regimen; summer is creativity. [via] Tom Sawyer doesn’t factor into it for me, and I don’t think my view is skewed at all since it is based on [...]
We had a magnitude 3.6 earthquake in the DC metro area this morning. I felt it but had no idea what was going on at the time. Earthquakes aren’t common around here. Here’s the thing: People are falling all over themselves to say “Oh, that’s NOTHING.” and “I grew up in [insert place here] where [...]
Dislike. Sympathy. I’m glad you posted this link although it is an unpleasant topic so I want to make it clear that I don’t actually like the unpleasant topic contained therein. I ALREADY KNEW ABOUT THIS. I’M WAY AHEAD OF YOU AND MUCH COOLER. Hellooooo, you forgot to credit me for this link. Oh shut [...]
Until last week, I hadn’t flown anywhere in a few years, so I was largely immune to a lot of the weirdness going on with airlines. Sure, I’d flown since it became necessary for us to take our shoes off and thereby open up the airport flooring as a new frontier of heretofore under-explored germ [...]
Stop me if I’ve ranted about this before. Well, actually, stop reading because you can’t stop me. I’m currently watching a program on the History Channel (not to be confused with the History International Channel, which is known around these parts as Hitler & Hauntings TV) about ancient aliens, because, you know, there’s a slew [...]