July 2008

I had to pickup a prescription for someone today at a small independent pharmacy. I didn’t know when they opened but I figured 9am was a reasonable bet. And I figured if it was 10, I could hang out and get some work done at the Starbucks down the block. I showed up at the […]

OK folks it’s on!!! I wrote in May that we should boycott movies. They’ve gotten too expensive and the prima donna actors are rich enough. You can see my two posts on this topic here:http://adam-1001words.blogspot.com/2008/05/boycott-movies.htmlhttp://adam-1001words.blogspot.com/2008/05/movie-prices-are-set-to-rise-dont-let.html Well now the movement has doubled in size. There has been a new comment posted in support of the movie […]

I recently wrote about an incident where an Ohio public school science teacher was fired for preaching after repeated warnings and using some sort of device to “burn” an image of a cross on the arms of several students. [See my original post.] I don’t really care what you think about religion in the public […]

Have you noticed that when people meet others for the first time they tend to ask a very small set of initial questions? Where are you from? What do you do for a living? Do you know my buddy Bob? Where did you go to school? I have always felt that these were such small […]