Author Archives: Mark A.

Have you ever been in a situation where you’ve somehow become trapped by a blowhard who won’t shut up? And have you ever been in a situation like that where the blowhard has unregulated authority to speak as long as they want? What do you do when a boss / professor / classmate / fellow […]

This post will be short, because I’m tired and if I look at this computer much longer I may very well go insane. I had to replace the motherboard, processor, and case of my computer. In other words, I had to completely rebuild the damn thing, all the while making sure I didn’t lose any […]

And then bloggery will continue as usual. That is all.

Computer’s down again. Second time in two weeks. And it’s not like I’ve got a crappy computer. I think my motherboard my be the problem, so that means I’ve gotta build a new system, which is really what I want to spend my time doing right now. So, I’m typing this in the business center […]

Time to ease back a bit on the anger, and resume with the usual jackassery. I thought I’d make this post as light and inconsequential as possible, and what better way to achieve that goal than with some clips of news personalities going down in flames. First up, Authur Chi’en. He got fired from WCBS […]

In this video Keith Olberman finds words for many of the thoughts I’ve been unable to write down. Here’s a quote: “This is the law and order and terror government. It promised protection, or at least ameliorations, against all threats, conventional, radiological, or biological. It has just proved that it cannot save its citizens from […]

I’ve been waiting to post on Katrina not because I don’t have anything to say, but more because I’m not sure I can express myself without a) offending people with certain political affiliations; and b) I’m not sure if my prose is strong enough to express exactly how I feel about the whole disaster. So, […]

The computer has been broken, my wife is in Galveston, and the material I need to read for Tuesday hasn’t even been bound yet. Not a good week. Yet, in light of the national disaster, my problems are practically non-existent. Am I the only one that finds it extremely disturbing that our society is only […]

I’m so relieved Katrina didn’t decimate New Orleans as the media had led us to believe it inevitably would. The destruction was bad, but not as bad as the media outlets had predicted. My wife has family who live near New Orleans, so it was a relief to learn the hurricane weakened when it hit […]

As regular readers to this blog know, every so often I go through my bookmark tab and pass along links that aren’t interesting enough to warrant a post on their own, but are interesting nonetheless. These links we call leftovers”¦get’em while they’re hot: First one’s a video clip: Watch as Jon Stewart eviscerates Christopher Hitchens […]