the other kind of social disease

The Meriam Webster Dictionary defines the term “social disease” as the following:
Main Entry:  social disease
Function: noun
Date: 1891
1: venereal disease.
I’d like to respectfully submit a second meaning:
2:any disease or condition that significantly impacts ones social life, friendships, relationships, and general interaction with society…
I was recently diagnosed with CFIDS or Chronic Fatigue Immune Deficiency Syndrome.  I have [...]

brass tacks

With all that’s been happening lately with the DNC, the delegates, the debates, the endless op-eds and platitudes, I wanted to bring up something of which, apparently, many of my peers are unaware.
4 amendments and 50 years separate the right for women’s suffrage and that of all men, regardless of race, to vote.
The fourteenth amendment was ratified [...]

bitch is the new black.

SNL last night was amazing- finally someone calls out the press for lobbing softballs to Barack and his decidedly humorless persona.  I have been worshipping Tina Fey for years, but last night’s Weekend Update was the jewel in the crown.
stop being fooled, people.  Obama’s “change we can believe in” is rhetoric, too.  Who do Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, [...]

i’d like to have something entered into the record, your honor.

i am not a slut. 
good jesus, i was just re-reading this fine collection of nonsense i call a blog and i come off as such a promiscuous ho-bag.  not so, friends, not so.  i can understand how you might get that impression, but there is definitely something you should know:
1.  this recent outpouring of encounters [...]

the back-handed compliment vs. the behind-the-back insult

i got my first writing assignment this weekend when a friend of mine, genghis khannie, a fellow blogger, put up an entry on the butterface phenomenon.  she and i discussed the situation that caused her to write this post, and the fact that she had gone quite some time on this earth without ever hearing [...]

greenpoint, thy fate is sealed

edward scissorhands lives on and from the evidence i´ve seen in the past week, he´s located somewhere in the english midlands, perhaps pumping some water out of his personal salon at this very moment.
i will write more about the vortex of insanity that is the isla de tenerife, but i just wanted to let you [...]

turns out the world isn’t watching

i got through security at laguardia pretty quickly this morning and headed to gate 4 for my 9:48 flight to the cleve for another day of marathon meetings.  i grabbed a couple of bananas and water at au bon pain and settled into my seat at the gate.i looked around and noticed that it wasn’t [...]

just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean homeland security isn’t writing all this down

LOS ANGELES, May 10 — Michael Moore, the provocative filmmaker who has made a career out of skewering automakers, gun enthusiasts and the Bush administration, is being investigated by the Treasury Department over a trip he made to Cuba for his new film, “Sicko.”
This month the department sent a letter to Mr. Moore saying it [...]

truth in advertising: when reality meets the tsa

so, on one of my many early morning jaunts to the cleve of late, i was standing in a very long security line at about, oh, five thirty in the morning.  nervous travelers abounded, anxious to catch their flights, but the line was not moving.  this gave me several long minutes to really take in [...]

aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhh

i just had to get that out.
unbelievable.  seriously. 
diogenes had nothing on me.  i would love to turn in my lantern and quit my quest, but at this point, i’d just like to prove that there is one, at least one, honest man out there.
update:
All better.  Sometimes I just need to write these things down or [...]