It’s mid January, and I feel like I have to write the usual holiday wrap-up/year in review post. I feel like this will be the shortest one ever because both the holidays, and the year, feel like they have been snatched and tainted. Getting to my family’s Christmas was coloured with a bit of Carin-style …
Monthly Archives: January 2015
I Said Pick Me Up At The Bar, Not The Bars!
The Van Buren County sheriff’s department says a 39-year-old woman mistook the Van Buren County jail for the bar where she was trying to pick up her boyfriend. The department says Deputy Robert Miersma spotted the Hartford-area woman backing into the jail parking lot in Paw Paw about 2 a.m. Sunday and noticed she smelled …
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You’ve Got To Know When To Hold ‘Em, Know When To Fold ‘Em, Know When To Win A Big Jackpot As The Cops Are About To Haul You Away
I wonder if this guy went and bought a lottery ticket after his brush with the law. If not, he probably should have. It was definitely his lucky day. Police said Thursday that two officers carrying out routine checks at an arcade in the western city of Bochum late last week discovered that a man …
Who Needs Handcuffs? No, Seriously, I Have Handcuffs
It’s doubtful you’ll hear much arguing when you make a statement such as if you’re in business, it’s good to advertise. It’s a very true statement. But also a true statement is for every rule, there is an exception. And in the business world, that exception can usually be found right around the point where …
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Lock It Or Lose It, Chief
“This is literally a wake up call not only for me personally, but for all of us, to lock our cars at all times because you never know what or who is lurking around outside and around our homes and in our streets.” Those are the not uncommon words of a person who just had …
Bill Burr On Letting Go Of Religion
Bill Burr is a name I’ve heard, but don’t know well. But based on this clip from one of his TV specials, I may have to get more familiar. He makes a good point. It’s a lucky thing for religions that they get to tell their stories to kids, because who the hell’s going to …
Dear Rental Companies: Please Don’t Cave And Pay These Idiots
the music business makes a lot less money than it once did. I get it. But when it can still afford to pay people to come up with an argument like rental cars are public places and since they have radios in them everyone should have to pay license fees, it still makes more than …
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Dealing With Religious Protesters
This is helpful. And sensible. And funny. And a lot of other things religious fanatics aren’t. The focus is on concerts, but you could apply it to just about any extremist protest situation, I imagine. How to deal with religious fanatics protesting concerts
An Actual Silent Night Would Have Been An Upgrade
I know it’s not Christmas anymore, but I just had to post this because it’s so amazingly bad. So bad, in fact, that had I not been warned ahead of time that it was supposed to be Silent Night I may not have recognized it. Seriously, what the hell is this woman doing? Warning: Audio …
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Goodbye, Grandma Wettlaufer
In my life, I’ve lived through my fair share of death. Friends, friends of friends, family of friends, family of mine…I’ve dealt with it all. My first brush with it (or at least the first I remember) was the year when four relatives went on me. Three I was pretty close to, one I can …
