Starving In Moderation … And It’s A Good Thing

Mentioned around these parts that fat is the current reality.  BMI WTF, basically.  Since Half and theKid left (allthesads) meals have become fairly optional, and been able to just scavenge and scrounge around the house for foodage.  That, and some hot yoga (do not—repeat—do not look that up on Tubes of You) and some house-based …

Rule of Threes

Buncha famous folks dropping like flies here recently … Mr. Blonde / Sidewinder / [“Sil” looking to get Press(ed)], Theo Huxtable, bat-eating Ozzy, Terry “little bit racist” Bollea, the guy that absolutenightmarehorrorshow (but really good NGL) “Wolf Creek” was based on, that bombshell from that show from last century … watzerbuhkit … “WKRP in Cincinnati” …

Kindness … or Cruelty?

Found an … interesting? Tuber of You – The Functional Melancholic (geddat?) – who offers a fairly, well, dismal outlook with which mefound meself in subtle agreement.  Essentially, TFM discoursed re the global trend towards anti-natalism, that birth rates are declining in most places around the world (but for some areas of Africa and parts …

Self-imposed First World Problems

Like most issues related to be human in Western society, this is a self-inflicted wound, one which makes no sense and for which no one in power (see: masters of mankind) has provided a viable, sustainable option. Ahh, the conundrum of childcare. Society insists that breeding is necessary to maintain the aforesaid society, while yet …

Law #21 – Stupid Is as Stupid Does, or the Law of Forrest Gump

On a Friday morning in New York City, a woman entered a bank and asked for the loan officer, explaining that she needed some cash and wanted to use her $500,000 Rolls Royce, parked right outside, as collateral.  She ultimately borrowed $5,000 for two years, at an annual interest rate of 10-percent, and handed the …

If It Can Be Driven, Flown, Floated, or Fornicated – Borrow & Return

A line from a short-lived cable TV series offered some advice to young pro athletes that was truly offensive but factual … if one can drive it, fly it, float it, or (fornicate with) it, don’t buy it, just borrow it for a while then give back (to the owner? to the streets?) when done. …