Author Archives: AdaptiveCurmudgeon

Here are the last few bits of wisdom before I go back to bitching about politicians arranging deck chairs on the Titanic and musing about the wonders of wood heat: Continue reading →

COGs are not stupid. They are productive, predictable, and conservative. Some folks associate those traits with “dumb”. That’s a common, but stupid, misinterpretation. Continue reading →

COGs eat food because it tastes good and starving is stupid. COGs believe people to get too weird in their relationship to food are only doing so because they have too much spare time. Continue reading →

In keeping with yesterday’s clarification I’ve added a twist to my “Spot the COG” game. Today I’m offering a COG and a “beyond COG”. Continue reading →

I am remiss. I was so intent on honoring the staid and uncool but ultimately essential COGs that I left out the more colorful elements of my unified field theory of everything. Continue reading →

COGs have a lifestyle which has become remarkable as society around it has evolved (see: tanked). Many demographics have somehow created a mess of their own lives while COGs keep keepin’ on. COGs take pride in their household’s lack of drama. Continue reading →

In honor of COG week I propose a game called Spot the COG. Which of these two images represents a COG? Continue reading →

COGs correctly view politics as a flamboyant method to avoid getting a real job. However they seem to wind up financing damn near everything through their taxes. You’d think this would encourage them to get more active but instead it encourages them to view the rest of the population as useless layabouts. (Which, statistically speaking, is true.) Continue reading →

When I was growing up I was taught that the advent of the personal automobile was a vast improvement in the freedom, mobility, and general welfare of all Americans. This was true. Children are now taught that people should enjoy being herded onto mass transit to sit between homeless derelicts that throw up on your shoes and gang bangers looking for a fight. Continue reading →