Author Archives: Mark A.

Last week while driving home from Fort Worth my wife hit a small patch of ice and was involved in a car accident. She was driving our Jeep at the time, and when she left the road and hit the ice-covered median she lost control of the vehicle, and she ended up striking a support […]

I tried to post earlier in the day, but despite the technological sophistication of Starband the cloudy weather prevented me from using the Internet. Tonight on the Daily Show Jon ran a segment about the RNC’s new web campaign attacking Democrats for their “cowardly” stance regarding the Iraq war. The Republicans don’t really say anything […]

One of the things I find most loathsome about career politicians is their propensity for ignoring difficult and complicated issues while instead focusing on issues which really don’t matter very much (Hillary Clinton and Leeland Lee I’m lookin’ at you). Case in point: video games. The discovery of the “Hot Coffee” mod in GTA San […]

Blogger just lost the original entry for this post, so I’m going to try and remember what I wrote. Several authors have begun to post their new books for free on-line under the Creative Commons copyright. The first time I heard about this practice I thought it was a pretty stupid idea, but then I […]

Well, as you can see I found a Wi-Fi connection, but I’m not entirely comfortable posting in the midst of strangers. Gives me the heebee-jeebees for some reason. Anyway, since I’m not in the comfort of a home, not even my home any home would do, don’t expect any deep or insightful posts for the […]

Starband sucks, and so does blogging from a cell phone. I’ll find a WI-FI connection tomorrow.

Richard Pryor died today in his home at age 65. He had been suffering from MS for quite some time, so while this news isn’t unexpected, it’s still really sad. So many stand-up comedians try to duplicate Pryor’s humor and his stage presence but I don’t know if any of them ever succeed. I take […]

I don’t post links to other blogs very often, but you absolutely, positively must go and see this one. The blog is titled “The Whether Man” and since November 22nd the “Whether Man” has recorded a weather report from the rooftop of his Queen’s apartment every morning at 6:00 A.M., clad only in his boxers […]

While watching Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy tonight on HBO I was suddenly struck with a moment of insight: Tridents are spectacularly comical, especially if someone dies from a trident-wound. For my money, tridents aren’t used in movies as much as they should be, and I think any movie would benefit by the addition […]

I listen to the liberal media way too much, because I was under the assumption that Bush doesn’t care about issues like the effect of global warming on the environment. Well, after watching this special bulletin I know that not only does Bush care, he is also a very well-informed and educated man. In fact, […]