Month: March 2009

This letter is neither an encomium of Stallion Cornell nor a panegyric to his ventures. Instead, it is a fact-filled reportage intended to convince you that when one succeeds in eking out a kernel of content from Stallion's linguistic games and complex exegeses, it usually turns out to be either banal or blatantly false. And ... Read more

It’sbecome popular in conservative circles to cite Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged as a proper response to the current Obama unpleasantness. For those of you unfamiliar with this seminal novel, it’s the story of what happens when all the productive people of the world stop working. (It’s actually far goofier than that. The productive people all ... Read more

I’mwriting this knowing that I have a big meeting in fifteen minutes. Here’s the reason I’m never going to go very far. I hate meetings. I don’t mind meeting with people when there’s something to talk about – I just hate “meetings.” Where people sit around a table and have an agenda. Where someone always ... Read more

Whyis there snow on the ground this year on March 24? Why? Dear Thor, why?!! I just spent two hours folding clothes. We have a dishwasher, why not a clothesfolder? Why does Barack Obama keep promising to do very, very scary things? Why does America want him to do these things? Why do I want ... Read more

It’sover. I’ve tried to anticipate what I would write for a final review that would be a worthy capstone to four seasons of reviews. I even tried my hand at a few ideas over the past few weeks that might let me go out in a blaze of snarky glory. None of them worked, and ... Read more

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SoI don’t have HBO, but I do have access to YouTube, where I found the most controversial bits of the Big Love episode that depicts pieces of the Mormon temple ceremony. Watching it was quite an unnerving experience, more so than I had anticipated when I wrote about this earlier. I just don’t know the ... Read more

Thegood news is that even though Barack Obama is the President of the United States, John McCain isn’t. His stupid earmark crusade has now become the central issue of Republican politics, where suddenly earmarks are the only problem, earmarks are the reason we have such huge deficits, earmarks are the mark of the beast, the ... Read more

Ihave seen precisely one episode of HBO’s signature series “Big Love,” ostensibly written about a polygamous family in Sandy, Utah, with roots in early Mormon doctrine. What I can tell you, from that episode, is that nothing in the show bears even a passing resemblance to Utah, polygamists, or Mormons. Trust me. I live in ... Read more

Icome to announce my opposition to Daylight Savings Time in the strongest possible terms. I see no valid reason to let it continue. It is fundamentally disruptive of every aspect of life, with only antiquated agrarian benefits to show for it. We no longer need it. It’s completely unnecessary. It’s intrusive, maddening, and worse than ... Read more