Reaction to Random Catalysts

For two Sunday evenings in a row, my car would not play the music nor defrost and warm and windshild wipe. It was like a selective fast for my car. Then, a week ago, on the following morning, the radio and heater worked just fine. And same again this past Monday. But then, come this past Monday... Sign in to see full entry.

I could not find my customized ear plugs and quality gloves when I went to work this morning. I keep them in a small fabric bag. They must be at work, I concluded. But my heart dipped when I did not see them in the my locker area. Through work, my ear plugs had been customized. They fit... Sign in to see full entry.

'The greedy are evil.' That's what the Occupy and dependency types tell us. They would have us to believe that the rich, just by virtue of having more money than others--more money than they ought to have--are greedy and evil. They claim that riches corrupt, regardless of how hard or honestly some... Sign in to see full entry.

Always playing it safe will not get you far in writing. Sometimes you have to be vulnerable, that is to bring exposure to deep-seated struggles in your life, or relate past embarrassing moments, or agitate points of view with elements falling outside of the conventions. We are not pegs to be put in... Sign in to see full entry.

What is happening? Is this America? We are losing our freedoms. In Los Angeles, it is now against the law to throw footballs or frisbees at the beach. At an airport, a lady could not fly to where she wanted to go, because her mandatory pat-down was rendered impossible by the absence of any female... Sign in to see full entry.

Liberals define compassion in terms of how many people government can help (with handouts), but conservatives define compassion in terms of how many people they are able get off government dependency. A related metaphor to this is that liberals hand the dependants fish, but the conservatives teach... Sign in to see full entry.

During log-in procedure to a machine at work, one of the outgoing operators commented to me how silly and unnecessary all the little steps that are put in place for the data control for the shifts. The procedures go through frequent changes, and we on the floor are made to re-learn the data entry... Sign in to see full entry.

My Facebook Scrabble play on two recent occasions has been interrupted. What came into play was the need for a browser update. On the first occasion, I called a computer repair man and asked why my Scrabble application would not open. He told me I most likely needed to upgrade my browser. Not being... Sign in to see full entry.

On the night prior I had donned my car with two flowery, quilted throws over the windshield. Just as I had returned to my car on my last errand last night, the radio would not turn on and neither would the heater/defroster. That did not present a problem for getting home, but I did have concerns for... Sign in to see full entry.

Even though today centered around the Super Bowl, the Pro Bowl was in the news. National Football League Commissioner Roger Gooddall expressed his disappointment in the level of play at the Pro Bowl and suggested that if improvements are not made then he might scrap the Pro Bowl altogether. The most... Sign in to see full entry.