My Soap Box

If you want to know how cold it is, then imagine this....You are a transgender well-digger with brass testicles and you ride a broom attatched to the hubs of hell. Now that's cold. -12 F Could be worse. Sign in to see full entry.

What exactly is an opinion? Everyone has an opinion about what an opinion is, but for those that want to be accurate, let’s go to the dictionary. (Webster’s New World Dictionary - third edition) 1 a belief based not on certainty but on what seems true or probable. 2 an evaluation, estimation, etc. 3... Sign in to see full entry.

I am appalled at what passes for prime time entertainment on TV. People eating fish guts? Is that really what I saw? Now there’s a socially uplifting skill. Maroon people on an island, then pit them against each other. Nice microcosm of modern society. Why promote co-operation when we can foster... Sign in to see full entry.

How many have watched a beef being slaughtered? The custom meat cutters come right to the farm at a time set by the farmer. That time is determined by feeding schedules, weather and the health of the animal. The custom meat cutters would probably not take a “downer cow.” None of the people I have... Sign in to see full entry.

Call me paranoid, call me a worrywart, just don’t call me late for my cheeseburger. When I first heard about Mad Cow, my imagination took over as I tried to sort out just what this might mean. Were Mad Cow scientists cloning people, or was that just a bunch of Bull? Were there Aggressive Bovine Peer... Sign in to see full entry.

To follow up money = happiness, lets turn our attention to the Lottery. Righteous and practical people deride the Lottery as a waste of time. Why then, is it so damn popular? These days as the gap between the haves and the have-nots widens into a yawning chasm, what hope do the lower class have of... Sign in to see full entry.

Poetic Dewdrop inspired a few thoughts. Too many times we hear the trite homily, Money can’t buy happiness. That has to be uttered by people who don’t know how to spend their money. If it can’t buy happiness, send some to me so I can put a down payment on some contentment. The folk song Richard... Sign in to see full entry.

I don’t know how it is for everyone else, but at first the BN just seemed like a place to blow off steam, after all it’s just the internet, right? I blathered on about things, posted some poems and made jokes. Then one day I got my first comment, proof that someone had indeed read something I had... Sign in to see full entry.

I heard an advertisement offering people who had too much to drink, rides home. It was sponsored by a local alcohol distributor, and the tag line was, “Drink responsibly.” Now correct me if I am wrong, but the over riding consensus seems to be - the point of drinking is to facilitate... Sign in to see full entry.

I know I should get worked up about something, how about former attorney general Ramsey Clark offering to represent Saddam Hussein? What kind of crap is that? Surely there can be no defense for what Saddam has done. Is he going to say Saddam meant to kill all those folks in the nicest way? Ramsey... Sign in to see full entry.