My previous essay caused a bit of a stir in Beaumont, which is nice since most of my readers find their way here either from other US states or from foreign countries with names like UnpronouncableLand. Now I’m faced with the troubling task of either trying to expand my local reader base with more homegrown content at the risk of alienating all of my non-nearby readers, or just saying “Screw it!” and continuing to write on...

I apologize for the lack of a regularly scheduled Thursday essay, but I was saving myself up for something special. Or, more accurately, I was waiting to experience an event before beginning to write about it. I’m funny that way, slave as I am to the tyrannical rule of a temporally linear existence. Anyway, tonight was the night of the monthly meeting of the Board of Education of the Beaumont Independent School District, which...

I didn’t write anything yesterday, because I simply haven’t had time to get everything accomplished and something had to slip. This week, I chose Coquetting Tarradiddles. Next week, I’ll choose something else. However, since I am not without compassion or at least a work ethic best described as Puritanical, I can’t let a week slip by without posting two new entries. So, while this is a little late and sort of...

After enjoying a recent Facebook-powered mini-debate over the Tea Party movement, I decided to write up a short and jagged little rehash of stuff I’ve already said. It should come as no surprise to regular visitors to my little corner of the Internet that I loathe the Tea Party movement, but what is probably less obvious is the fact that I don’t actually hate the teabaggers themselves. Not really. (Yes, it’s a derogatory...

The other day, I stumbled across the news that South Carolina is now requiring that all subversives register with the state. There’s even a $5 filing fee and a $25,000 fine if you fail to register within thirty days of starting up your subversive organization. The logic, I suppose, goes something along the lines of, “You better let the state know if you’re planning to overthrow the state, otherwise the state will fine you...

The geek half of the Internet (the remaining 50% being divided equally between bored housewives, cheating husbands, ambitious business majors and porn) is abuzz this morning with news of yesterday’s decision by the seventh circuit court of appeals to uphold the decision of a Wisconsin prison banning its inmates from playing Dungeons and Dragons. It seems that some murderer by the name of Kevin Spacey Singer filed the appeal after the...