Growing old and sex I think that it was Euripides, the Greek playright. He was asked how he felt upon reaching such an advanced age. He replied, ” I am only grateful to be released from the grasp of the great beast of sexual desire.” I’ve read that it you get almost the same amount [...]
I’ve been on Choudery Road in Delhi, India. It’s always crowded with cars, lorries, pedicabs, 3-wheeled putt-putt cabs, bicycles, horse carts, donkey carts, and sacred cows that drop their poop that’s immediately scooped up by a young boy whose mother will dry and burn it in the cookstove, busy especially on a workday noontime under [...]
Commy Pinko Fag This is how describe my political leanings on facebook: “commypinkofag”. Accurate, and I am not going to change it for the sake of not hurting anyone’s feelings. Commy (commie): I left Wabash College after my sophomore year in a state of total confusion. Didn’t know who I was ( hadn’t yet realised [...]
Young men of rome There are so many of them, the young men of Rome, and they are so beautiful! They know how to wear their clothes, and they have the bodies on which to wear them. You’d cry, if you compared the youths of Greenville, SC, with the youths of Rome. Roman young men [...]
“‘I like being able to fire people who provide services to me,’ Romney told a breakfast forum of the Nashua Chamber of Commerce. ‘You know, if someone doesn’t give me the good service I need, I want to say, ‘You know, I’m going to get someone else to provide this service to me.’’ Hey, come [...]
We were in CostCo the other day before the New Year, buying supplies, when a terrificly loud noise happened right by us. An employee was removing the items from our cart, one of which was a bottle of Prosecco (Italian version of champaign); the bottle exploded in his hands. My first reaction, was to shout [...]
What pisses me off? When you are asked to enter your credit card number (or any other long series of digits), and the instructions are: Without Spaces. Those long numbers are separated by spaces for a reason: to make them easier to read, and easier to remember. It’s a psychological thing called “chunking”. Easier to [...]
In 1797, work was completed on a road through Saluda gap between Greenville and North Carolina (I believe this is the present Rt. 276) . According to Greenville, A History by A.V. Huff, Jr.: An annual event was the passage of thousands of turkeys, driven in flocks of four hundred to six hundred. The birds [...]
We attended a funeral today. I swear, I will never attend another funeral in South Carolina–unless it’s an RC mass (which might last for 20 minutes–and has nice-smelling incense). For over an hour we were harangued and preached at by two, count’em two, baptist preachers. “I’m sure everyone here is a Christian,” said one of [...]
Tags on pillows, on mattresses, on anything withf a fabric or stuffing that needs to be identified. You need to know what’s in the thing you bought, because there may be llergies involved. Okay, I get that. But that tag, that’s so ugly–why is it sewn into the seam? Sure, you don’t want it easily [...]