Archive for the ‘Rant’ Category

Public Service Announcement

We will now take a quick break from our normal blog for a brief PSA regarding telephone manners. (Although I strongly suspect I’m preaching to the choir here.)
For those of you who weren’t taught phone manners in school, or from your parents, please note the following when you are calling a business. Or [...]

If You Can’t Say Anything Nice… Stay off the ‘Net

The quote on my Facebook profile page is one I lifted from Nathan Fillion on Twitter:  “It costs nothing to say something nice.  Even less to shut up altogether.”  It’s a lesson a lot of people trolling around on the internet could use these days.
I was bothered last week when Rush Limbaugh was admitted to [...]

Balloon Boy and the 24-Hour News Cycle

Want to hear something crazy? When I was Falcon Heene’s age, mumblehrumble years ago, you could only watch the news a couple of times a day. At certain, predetermined times. On one of only three channels. (Also, there were no remote controls, there were no drive-through windows, and dinosaurs still roamed [...]

Upcoming Movie Remakes Beg the Question — Why?

I’ve heard it put different ways. According to the Barenaked Ladies, “It’s all been done before.” Just recently, “Battlestar Galactica” reminded us that “This has all happened before and it will all happen again.” And of course, Christopher Booker (or William Foster-Harris or Stephen King or any number of other authors) told [...]