Author Archives: AdaptiveCurmudgeon

I’m a patron of the bacon! Continue reading →

Back in the stone age I had a newspaper route.  This was back when it was considered a good thing for youths to work. One effect of my righteous, underpaid, non-minimum wage, child labor paper route was that I read … Continue reading →

I have obtained photographic evidence that Pony conventions exist.  (In case you thought they were a figment of my fevered imagination.)  I blurred the photos because… well mostly because I found the “pixellate” button my my photo software. I enlisted … Continue reading →

“Leather clad bikers… Rainbow sparkly ponies…” A juxtaposition formed and took a dump in my skull. “Aaacckk! You’re not helping!” Continue reading →

Watch out for pretentious yahoos trying to make you into a human being. First of all there is the implied assumption that the prospective student isn’t yet a self realized individual. Who wants to service an ego so inflated that it considers would be apprentices nothing more than a mass of unformed dingbats? Second, unless you’re an utter moron you already know how to read. Finally, if you take on five digits of debt to learn to “say how you feel” you should emerge with a notepad full of euphemisms for “screwed”. Continue reading →

I’ve written about the 55 MPH speed limit before.  It, like the AMC Gremlin and possible annihilation by Soviet missiles, was an experience.  It made an indelible mark on my psyche.  So much stupidity.  So much misery.  And that’s just … Continue reading →

McSweeney’s nails delicate sensibilities with a sledgehammer of satire. “By now you’re probably wondering what this is all about, why FBI agents pulled you out of your barista job, threw you on a helicopter, and brought you to NASA headquarters. … Continue reading →

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Hat tip to The Silicon Graybeard.

The which burners only cared about Martin as an excuse and Zimmerman as tinder. They have no sympathy in their world view for the continuing unremarkable loss of life surrounding Sanford Florida. Roughly one person every three months is gunned down and they don’t give a shit. Continue reading →