Archive for the ‘Rant’ Category
Friday, March 25th, 2005
I noticed this article in the Sub-Standard, because I'm interested in news that affects families, since I have one. Family, that is.
Jake Zeiss bolts from his west LA bungalow before 8 a.m., red hair damp and shirttail flapping.
After seven hours of back-to-back meetings, he volleys for an hour with ...
Posted in Family, Rant | 4 Comments »
Thursday, March 24th, 2005
I know I keep harping on this, but you can pass all the laws you want, and the problems of underage drinking and DUI are still ones of culture, not legality.
Last I checked it was against the law to drink under 21, and/or drive under the influence; but it doesn't ...
Posted in Montana, Rant | 2 Comments »
Friday, March 11th, 2005
Right of passage: The right to pass through a territory or nation.
Rite of passage: An often formalized ritual signifying a transition from one phase of life to another.
Posted in Rant | 2 Comments »
Saturday, February 12th, 2005
If I were to ever set up a web hosting service, I would set up a mailing list so that customers would know in advance when their server would be going down for maintenance.
Just saying, is all.
Posted in Nerd Alert, Rant | 1 Comment »
Friday, December 31st, 2004
The term is: "grocerial," pronounced like two words: grow-serial.
It will come into wide usage soon, just after someone (not me — at least I'm pretty sure) finally cracks at the grocery store.
When it happens, the person who snaps will be fed up with:
People who "angle park" in the ...
Posted in Rant | 9 Comments »
Friday, December 24th, 2004
Recently, there have been some racist rumblings over in Bozeman, and Rob has been all over it.
Of course, he couldn't link all the sites he did without drawing their attention. So they paid a visit to his comment page, where I commented that he was in trouble now ...
Posted in Rant | 16 Comments »
Monday, November 8th, 2004
Can we please stop with the remakes already? I'm on my knees, begging.
I don't mind an occasional "Starsky and Hutch" or something of that nature, but this remake-mania has got to stop — now.
Let me explain.
Really, there are only 4 good Burt Reynolds films: Deliverance, Smokey and The ...
Posted in Rant | 3 Comments »
Monday, September 13th, 2004
When I think about the reason for my conservative bent, I think it can come down to one thing: responsibility. Growing up, I was taught that I should take care of my own business when I could, and not expect other people to do it for me. ...
Posted in Rant | 14 Comments »
Thursday, July 22nd, 2004
What posesses some people to park parallel across three parking spaces right in front of a store's entrance?
It's not like there's no room to park normally. If the vehicle was too long to fit correctly, wouldn't courtesy dictate that you should park out at the edge of the lot, ...
Posted in Rant | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, June 16th, 2004
I'm no lawyer, but I know one or two, and I think they'll agree with me on this.
The Guess-At-It editorial board (among other outlets) is complaining that the Supreme Court handily used the concept of "standing" to avoid ruling on the larger issue.
Well, sorry, gang, but this is a nation ...
Posted in Rant | 22 Comments »
Friday, June 11th, 2004
So, we have an unverifiable rumor, circulated by anonymous email (always a credible source of information), and the Lee chain, among other outlets, run it as straight news.
Read the following paragraph (the 8th of 14 total):
A spokesman for the U.S. State Department said Thursday that his office received no report ...
Posted in Rant | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, April 13th, 2004
Google's GMail service has barely hit the ground, and already the nannies want to shut it down.
The hue and cry is over privacy, since Google will be scanning all of the email that it hosts, and inserting advertising relevant to the message.
Pardon my French, but, whoop-ti-frickin'-doo.
If you don't want Google ...
Posted in Rant | 2 Comments »
Friday, January 30th, 2004
Listen up, ISP's, I'm only going to 'splain this once.
If you're blocking email addresses as a source of spam, it's a Bad Idea™. How many spammers do you think actually put their own email addresses in there?
A better solution is to block SMTP traffic from IP blocks that you ...
Posted in Rant | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, January 27th, 2004
If you're in the business of trying to do good things for folks, you are going to get burned from time to time. No two ways about it.
That's just the cost of doing this particular type of business. You suck it up and keep going, rather than subjecting ...
Posted in Rant | 1 Comment »
Monday, January 26th, 2004
As you may or may not know (or care), one of the courses I am taking this semester is "Business Law," the title of which is self-explanatory. (Har!)
Now, what I know about law, you can fit in a thimble. I know a little bit about Torts, from the ...
Posted in Rant | 7 Comments »
