If elections in the US were held today…

Then apparently I’d be voting for Dennis Kucinich. Pick Your Candidate pegged him as holding my position on nearly every issue aside from Net Neutrality. His Wikipedia entry describes him as a vegan who opposes a knee-jerk military response in the Middle East, is for universal health care in the US, and so on. Good … Read more

Schools that make you smarter? Impossible!

I raised two kids, and I don’t think either one of them got much out of school. My son, in particular, was shuffled through a ‘special ed’ system far more concerned about teaching kids to behave well in school than in learning to think and solve problems. I talked to both my kids’ teachers about … Read more

Briefly BOC

More on this later… TONS of pics… here was BOC’s setlist: Opening > This Ain’t the Summer of Love > OD’d on Life Itself > Burnin’ For You > City in Flames (with Rock and Roll) > Shooting Shark > Godzilla > Don’t Fear (the Reaper) Was nice to hear some of their earlier stuff. … Read more

The Oyster Boys vs the Space Truckers

Blue Oyster Cult opening for Deep Purple here in Connecticut? Brilliant! This will be my fifth time seeing BOC, but the first for Deep Purple. This will be the first time for my son; this is the first time I haven’t seen BOC in a bar, and he’s never been 21 in his life. I … Read more

Repent, Harlequin! This ain’t Harry Potter…

There are always those who ask, what is it all about? For those who need to ask, and for those who need points sharply made, who need to know “where it’s at,” this: – from “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman, Harlan Ellison Ellison leads into an excerpt from Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience, which ends: A very … Read more