One of the men below is Dennis Rader, the infamous BTK serial killer who murdered 10 people in Wichita, Kansas. The other guy is really fucked up.
Dec 082009
As I wrote in this post about the very beginning of my stand-up comedy career (such as it was), Dave Chappelle was a regular at the comedy club in Washington, D.C., where I made my debut. This was back in 1991, so Chappelle was only 17, based on the birthdate given for him on his [...]
Dec 072009
I love stories about regular people standing up to the sleazy practices of corporate America, particularly banks. A recent favorite was the tale of Ann Minch, the California woman who told Bank of America to get fucked after the bank jacked up her BofA credit card interest rate to 30% for no reason other than [...]
Dec 072009
Has there ever been an annual charade more insipid or cynical than Fox News shout-fest bully Bill O’Reilly’s grandstanding efforts to gin up a scary “War On Christmas”? Here’s O’Reilly’s latest pathetic effort to position himself as the Christian holiday’s noble and heroic defender:
Dec 012009
I got laid off yesterday, nearly 11 years with the same online publisher ending with a two-minute phone call from the CEO. It was one of the best days of my life, not because of the adrenaline-fueled euphoria you initially feel when you lose a job you loath, but because it gave me an excuse [...]
Former Bush press secretary Dana Perino, her feet firmly placed in Opposite World, on Fox News last night (video below) discussing President Obama’s moral obligation to label the mass shootings at Fort Hood by an Army major – and Muslim – an act of terror: “We did not have a terrorist attack on our country [...]
I was in my usual coffee shop the other day when a guy with a very young boy began vacating an adjacent table. I had my laptop on and was going through my Twitter friends timeline, trying to tune out the surrounding commotion, when I heard a small voice to my right say, “Dad, is [...]
It’s weird when you take a break from a blog. When the hiatus drags on too long, you start to feel awkward — even embarrassed — about coming back. Which, when you think about it, makes absolutely no sense for two reasons: 1) It’s your fucking blog, and 2) No one really noticed you were [...]
I know some of my good friends on Twitter have noticed I haven’t been tweeting as much lately. It’s not for any bad reasons and it isn’t by design; it happened gradually as a number of activities and other phenomena began competing for my time and energy this spring. So in the interest of full [...]
