Monthly Archives October 2007

“How can we in the news media do a better job of focusing on bullshit?”

I love the little “WAR for the White House” graphic. Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters

WriMoFoSho

Go to my author page (and if your participating, by all means add me as a writing buddy). This is where, starting next month, you can track my progress towards the 50,000-word goal. Place your bets now on whether or not you think I’ll make it.

I guess all the tortillas were already booked.

What do you see in this photo? Just some fire, you say? Why you dirty, hell-bound heathen. Only a despicable atheist could deny the plain fact that it is none other than Pope John Paul II taking a break from eternal paradise to give a little wave. Gregorz thinks so. But don’t take his word [...]

Brevity is the soul of wit. Which is why, as anyone can see, it’s so important to pare down (remove) every extraneous bit you can to the core, essential, and ultimately most important insight.

I love boiling life down to simple axioms, finding the pithy proverbs that summarize everything neatly and wittily. “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.” “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” It’s all part of my search for [...]