Wal-Mart is at it again… yesterday, they closed the Super Wal-Mart in my town and moved four miles away into a new Wal-Mart SuperCenter.
Why? The old Wal-Mart was perfectly good, the building can’t be more than 10 years old, yeah traffic is a pain in the ass during the Christmas season, but it is [...]
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Oh Big Box Mart!
TheBisch Held Hostage: Part Deux
Earthlink is pissing me off again.
I have gone for another week of barely having Internet access… and this time the technical support staff all the way in India believe that the problem lies here within my house.
So, while I sit here blogging and surfing on one of my neighbor’s wifi access points, Earthlink is ready [...]
What’s Burger King Up To Now?
Have you seen this? Burger King is serving a new exotic food…
Makes you want to go out and get some right now, doesn’t it?
Bend Over, Here It Comes!
Remember a couple months ago, when it was announced that oil companies like Chevron and Exxon made record profits in the wake of the “gas crisis” of Katrina? Yeah, be prepared for that to happen again, this time with the natural gas companies.
I just got my gas bill yesterday and I couldn’t believe how [...]
Wordpress 2.0… Who cares?
The software I use for this blog is called WordPress… for those of you who are familiar with WordPress, you probably know that version 2.0 came out not too long ago. I haven’t upgraded to 2.0 yet, and the other day Owen wanted to know why.
I haven’t upgraded for a number of reasons… most [...]
Nick Gholson says…
As most of you know I am by no means a devout Christian, or even an occasional church goer, but this summarizes the point I was making the other day regarding Christmas.
Nick Gholson says:
I don’t believe in Santa Claus, but I’m not going to sue somebody for singing a Ho-Ho-Ho song in December. [...]
What’s wrong with Christmas?
I’ve been noticing something different as I go through the mountains of newspaper ads and wander the aisles in stores this Christmas season. Nobody uses the word Christmas anymore. It’s always “Happy Holidays” or some variation to include all of the other holidays that have popped up over the years (ie: ::wikipedia(”Kwanzaa”)::, and [...]
The War in Iraq
If you consider that there have been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theater of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000.
The rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 firearm deaths per 100,000. That means that you are about [...]
