It occurred to me this week that humans mostly start out as Communists but end up as Capitalists.
Okay, those are loaded terms and filled with enough competing ideologies and propagandized misuse that a bald statement like that cannot be left to stand. So, I’ll try and say what brought me to this observation. […]
It’s Memorial Day weekend. Monday is the day that we Americans set aside to honor our fallen soldiers. I was thinking about that and that got me to thinking about how we shouldn’t honor all the soldiers. I mean, some of them did horrific things. Now they may have done them […]
I live in the southwest U.S. which makes it easy to eat a lot of Mexican food, which I like. There was a comic I watched once whose routine included playing a waiter at a Mexican restaurant dealing with somebody new to the cuisine. They’d look at the menu and ask what a […]
Earlier this week was May Fifth, Cinco De Mayo, the day that Americans get to play at being Mexican. Its something we like to do, play at being something we’re not. We’ve got a number of holidays that are built around the concept. On St. Patrick’s Day we get to be Irish. […]
Last weekend I went to the The Annual Grilled Cheese invitational. This is an event where people compete to produce the best grilled cheese sandwich. It’s rather like a chili cook-off with a high dose of silliness thrown in. Actually it occurs to me you could do a good event that combined […]