Posts in the "opinions & venting" Category...

Spending Like A Browser: The Ninety-Nine Percent Problem

blogger | opinions & venting 

[5 Mar 02013 | 505 views | 6 minutes of your time ]

It seems very much to me that the wealth distribution in the economy is symptomatic of the same root cause as is my inability to get people to read my websites.

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The Hollow Echo Chamber of Modern Cultural Review

opinions & venting | pop-culture 

[11 Jan 02013 | 524 views | 8 minutes of your time ]

Isn’t critical review all just a big popularity contest anyhow? Consumers doing what they do, consuming, and then scraping varying levels of fame from the chaff of greater things?

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Ticking Along: My Non-Opinion & Electoral Indifference

opinions & venting 

[6 Nov 02012 | 298 views | 4 minutes of your time ]

By the time we all go to bed tonight we’ll very likely have a pretty solid idea of how the next four years is going to unfold.

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Parenting Like Calvin (and Hobbes), Part 1

fatherhood | opinions & venting | scientist & skeptic | skepdad 

[13 Jul 02012 | 6,089 views | 9 minutes of your time ]

About a month ago I wrote a short post about reading through some of my old Calvin and Hobbes comics. By some miracle of the unintended combination of the right words and the information reliability score of this blog, that page …

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To Tell Others: Advice or Opinions

abstract & thinking | opinions & venting | scatter 

[29 Jun 02012 | 381 views | 3 minutes of your time ]

So, I was thinking and I wanted to suggest a few things for your consideration…

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To Break: The Tipping Habit

city & culture | opinions & venting 

[28 Jun 02012 | 591 views | 5 minutes of your time ]

I’ve participated on the giving side of this little societal charade since I was old enough, and employed enough, to be the one slapping down the cash or credit card at a restaurant.

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To Read: Your Stuff

blogger | friends | meta & methods | opinions & venting 

[23 Jun 02012 | 382 views | 4 minutes of your time ]

Here we are in the last weeks of June… Summer has officially arrived, school is out for the season, the days grow a little more lazy and for the second year in a row I continue partaking in my daily blogging …

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Watching: Democracy

opinions & venting | watching & listening 

[14 Jun 02012 | 275 views | 3 minutes of your time ]

Ah, June… Summer is at our doorstep, the days are (almost all of them) seeming to get a little bit longer, and for the second year in a row I am partaking in my daily blogging exercise, marginally focused along a …

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Reloaded: Smackdown Election Edition

fatherhood | opinions & venting 

[24 Apr 02012 | 378 views | 4 minutes of your time ]

A “reloaded” post is a quick-clipped summary of a bunch of small things from the past few days. I want to write them down, but I am either lacking in (a) details or (b) time. That’s just how it goes sometimes. …

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