Road tripping
I can count on one hand how many road trips I’ve taken in my entire life and still have a digit or two left over. I define a road trip as traveling in a vehicle on the ground for a minimum of 5 hours one way. My family and I recently completed said trip from […]
July 19th, 2016Introduction to gunpowder
Within a couple weeks some people will be parting company with some fingers, maybe a hand or possibly their eyesight due to fireworks mishaps. When I was a young boy, the days leading up to the 4th of July were an important part of the male experience. It was our introduction to gunpowder. Procuring fireworks […]
June 27th, 2016Orlando newsnado
We’ve just been through another “newsnado”. That’s when a story packs such a punch, is so large, so jarring, so frightening that every other story is left in its wake. That story, of course, being the Orlando atrocity. Suddenly long security lines at airports, barely a whimper; the Stanford sexual assaulter’s light sentence- he’ll serve […]
June 15th, 2016The other 800-pound gorilla in the room
The latest social media sh.t storm going on concerns the killing of a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo to “protect” a 3 year old who somehow fell into the ape enclosure. This is a scenario I’ve been talking about for years on the airwaves. My take on this case and all previous incidents is “what […]
May 31st, 2016When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
Is everything upside down or just more upside down than usual? This presidential election cycle completely embodies the words of Hunter S. Thompson,”when the going gets weird the weird turn pro.” On November 8th, I presume Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will be our next president, but because we’re months away from that decision anything […]
May 11th, 2016
