thefuddler
- Location
- Future 86, New York, USA
- Birthday
- December 10
- Company
- My own
- Bio
- I'm a reasonably good writer with an Internet connection. I'm rather opinionated on certain topics. I live in a town whose primary function is as a rest stop at the intersection of two interstate highways. I have too many radios!
All postings in this blog are Creative Commons The Fuddler. Non-comm, attrib, no derivs.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Surrender your privacy for up
to 50% off regular prices!
February 25, 2013 06:26PM - Twelve-Twelve-Twelve, or I've
all but had it with Open Salon
December 12, 2012 07:09PM - Do you believe in signs?
May 16, 2012 09:20PM - Aphorisms and Quotations!
Special today!
April 01, 2012 10:22PM - 2012 - So far, a very bad year
for sex, and for women
March 03, 2012 03:18PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Y'ever get the feeling
that human resources people
have far
too much time on
thei…”
March 31, 2013 09:20PM - “Hear,
hear!!!
Want to rate
it but the rating function
doesn't!”
December 12, 2012 07:17PM - “Our bodies were not
designed to be sexualized
after
menopause in women and
in men…”
October 24, 2012 12:53PM - “How could the Supreme
Court which gave us
Citizens
United and
effectively
repeale…”
October 24, 2012 12:19PM - “Do nothing, for 15
minutes or a day. Isn't the
former
referred to as
meditation a…”
October 24, 2012 12:00PM
Thefuddler's Links
Surrender your privacy for up to 50% off regular prices!
I never thought I'd actually go through with it. It was all so quick.
A while back, Giant Markets (not affiliated with the southern supermarket chain by that name), a long-established local supermarket chain was bought out by a regional chain from Pennsylvania, W___ Markets. Unlike the loca… Read full post »
Twelve-Twelve-Twelve, or I've all but had it with Open Salon
So, here we are again, a day which will never come again, one with three repeating numbers. The next such day will be 2/2/22.
This seems like as good a day as any to let all concerned know that I've applied to be on oursalon.ning.com. The reason should be obvious. Not… Read full post »
Do you believe in signs?
A few months back on NPR's hour-long interview program, Fresh Air, host Terry Gross was interviewing C. Peter Wagner, the man behind a rather interesting movement called The New Apostolic Reformation, part of a larger movement known in some circles as dominionism. Its followers… Read full post »
Aphorisms and Quotations! Special today!
Low cost doesn't necessarily indicate inferiority. A high price
is no guarantee of quality.
"The right thing to do ain't necessarily what you wanna do." - The
Who, “I'm A Farmer”
Not all darkness is evil. Not all light is benevolent.
Any new technology can and will be misused.
When a public… Read full post »
2012 - So far, a very bad year for sex, and for women
Last week, America's preeminent talk-show blowhard made on-air remarks which not that long ago would have ended any broadcaster's career in a
… Read full post »Some very unconventional advice about romance.
As an old girlfriend and I were driving into town one day in her 1998 Toyota, a passing gravel truck dropped a bit of its carelessly-secured load right in front of us.
… Read full post »Is Sex Addiction A (Genuine) Social Disease?
(Some links may be NSFW)
By the time I'd gotten to the corner, the bus had already rounded the opposite corner, leaving me in a cloud of diesel smoke.
It was the early 1980's. I had left
… Read full post »A few brief (but powerful) reminiscences about World War II
Last Wednesday marked the seventieth anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Although World War II was well before my time, and apparently none of my
… Read full post »Something about a run of ones...
It's a coincidence that doesn't happen very often, a run of the same digits when you write out a date numerically. You probably remember 9/9/99 even if you can't recall what you were doing on that day. (Some of
… Read full post »The 9/11 hype, and why I'm boycotting it from now on..
Like a lot of other bloggers, I'm here writing my recollections of the day in which the worst attack on American soil since 1865 occurred. I could write pages of florid prose, but because I know there's plenty of that in the traditional media and blogosphere, I'll give
… Read full post »And that's the way it was and is.
My father called him “Mister Disease”. He wasn't slagging on America's most trusted news man, he was just cracking a pun. In his mother
… Read full post »The next best thing to being there.
Paying For It, Writing About It.
A graphical memoir about a subject which no one wants to talk about but everyone has an opinion on.
Some weeks ago, I was at the gym working out on the rowing machine when I spied a young Asian man over near the free weights. He was wearing a… Read full post »
It didn't happen. Now what?
"The evaporation of 4 million who believe this crap would leave the world an instantly better place."
- poet and NPR commentator Andrei Condrescu, speaking about a pamphlet abour The Rapture which he was handed by a
… Read full post »Wesleyan students defend Planned Parenthood.
I found the video you see above via Susie Bright's Twitter feed (go, Susie!). The students who made this definitely knew what they were doing, and saying.
(One kid jokingly drops the F-Bomb at the very beginning, otherwise the rest of it is pretty much PG-rated.)… Read full post »
Too Much Information, or How I Learned To Start Worrying
I'm a Cold War baby. My generation lived under the Damoclean sword of nuclear war. I grew up taking part in those laughably pointless duck-and-cover drills which all American schoolchildren participated in in preparation for World War III, also known as “The Big Showdown with the Russi… Read full post »
Smell The Coffee, It's 1980 Again.
The newly-dominant Republicans in the House of Representatives are bound and determined to show all those freedom-hating liberals just who is charge. One way which they plan to achieve this noble end is by sticking it to the environmental
… Read full post »Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Up Close And Personal!
Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made. - Mark Twain
Listen to the Youtube clips you see above. Don't forget to pick your jaw up off the floor afterward.
Not since the Wikileaks affair have we gotten
… Read full post »No Valentine yet (and that's OK)
I keep telling myself that V-Day (or VD as some folks refer to it for some Freudian reason) is a commercial holiday, that the red plastic, foil and cardboard hearts which I see everywhere have no more significance than the plastic mistletoe and the strings of colored lights I… Read full post »
This posting deals with human sexuality. It may not be work-safe.
(I began this article as a comment to another blogger's posting. I decided to make it a full-length posting because I wanted/… Read full post »
Let's just say...
Freedom is when one may do whatever one pleases within reason and with proper regard for the rights and the well-being of others.
License is when one does whatever one pleases but without regard for the rights or the well-being of others, let alone reason.
Free… Read full post »
How I met John Lennon (Sort Of)
I was fascinated by jukeboxes when I was a kid. They were everywhere when I was growing up – in greasy-spoon diners, in upscale eateries and even in the dining room of the posh country club which my father
… Read full post »An Idea Whose Time May Have Come Again?
For those of you who haven't yet heard, like economic disaster another unwelcome phenomenon from the distant past has made a comeback.
I refer of course to bedbugs.
The little bastards only existed in biology and pest-control industry literature when I was growing up. I only
… Read full post »Book Burning Canceled, Desired Effect Achieved
Did you hear about that pastor, the one down in Florida? He's not gonna do it after all.
Do what?
You didn't hear? He was going to burn a Muslim holy
… Read full post »Who is Target targeting?
Following is an excerpt from an article from consumerist.com. I think that what it talks about is more than a little
… Read full post »
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