Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. Desperately insecure, fearing his woman will leave him if she is exposed to other men or to anything resembling life, the male seeks to isolate her from other men and from what little civilization there is, so he moves her out [...]
The only way to follow up a night in which you stumble into bed at 3:30 in the morning is to stumble into bed at 4:30 in the morning. It's been a long weekend, folks, and all the over-the-counter pseudoephedrine in the world couldn't keep me from crashing before my work-day ended. I was a busy bee, productive as all hell until about 90 minutes before my shift ended. Then I totally crashed and couldn't function any more. I was so anxious to get out and go home that I left without my computer. Good thing Nicci doesn't [...]
Happy Easter, Easter People. I'm a Jew but that did not stop me from partaking in some celebratory grillin' and chillin' tonight. I had a hot dog, a cheeseburger, and s'mores made with Peeps. I found the "golden egg" during our Easter egg hunt (curated by Ken and Kt), which contained a condom and some lube! I watched the Red Sox beat the Yankees, and I was temporarily joyous, until I realized that the Mets open their season tomorrow. Upon realizing this I suddenly felt very, very sad. Is it pathetic that I'm hoping the team loses their first ten [...]

The great man and the megalomaniac share one thing in common, and this would be a deep, abiding sense of destiny. Shoko Asahara, born blind in his left eye and partially sighted in the right, into a large, poor family of tatami mat makers aspired early on to be a leader. He ran for class president in elementary, junior high and senior high school. Though he was continuously rejected by his classmates, he never doubted his sense of destiny. Though he was not loved, he sought to bend others to his will through threats and fear. Nor [...]