North Korea

I love these guys. They are so crazy. Ever since the Taliban was routed I was worried that I would be deprived of “examples of crazy regimes”. But thankfully, North Korea has stepped up to the plate. Honestly, these guys are fucking nuts. Their “beloved leader” Kim Jong Il, is Read more…

Kavalier and Clay

Okay, so on my wife’s prodding I read “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay“. She always reads these “literary” type books and then shames me into reading them. The other one she made me read is The Secret History by Donna Tartt. I really didn’t like either of them. Read more…

Fantasty Football 2005 – Week 1

It has begun. The epic head-to-head fantasy football challenge of which Pete “Ball Sucker” Guzik and I are the only participants. Drafting new teams each week, we tally up the points each week in the ongoing struggle for bragging rights. It must be mentioned at this point that this is Read more…

9/11

Today is the fourth anniversary of 9/11. In general I tried to avoid TV news coverage. But I was channel surfing before going to bed and got sucked into a documentary about Flight 93, the one that crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. It was interviews with the family Read more…

Honoring the Dead

I have to say, I agree with the families rallying against the “International Freedom Center” which is proposed to be placed on Ground Zero. At frist glance, the mission of the IFC sounds unassailable, “to understand and appreciate the story of freedom as an ongoing world movement, and to learn Read more…