My Soap Box

A close game, down to the last minutes, a perfect season destroyed and a Cinderella finish. At least that’s how I see it. The Super Bowl seems to have taken on a significance to some that somehow transcends sports. Parties are planned around the occasion, scads of money are bet on not only the... Sign in to see full entry.

CrapLoad News peels back the layers in this eye watering special report. Reporters are gathered around to tell us just exactly what it was everyone said, even though we heard the words perfectly well on our own. Through the magic of electronics, Crapload News has been able to focus a neutrino beam... Sign in to see full entry.

Why not watch something that might enlighten one? With Mythbusters you get the combination of outrageous myths – electrocution from urinating on the third rail of a subway comes to mind – and the equally outrageous and ingenious methods used to test these myths and urban legends. This is science... Sign in to see full entry.

Winter is overrated, that’s my take on it. Oh sure, it is cool to look at, literally and figuratively. On one hand there is the Currier and Ives element as a soft blanket of glistening snow drapes the landscape while cheery light spills out of windows and picturesque smoke curls from chimneys. On... Sign in to see full entry.

Big money in your mailbox? Unless you live in a cave, you know by now that an economic stimulus package has been proposed. While its not set in stone, nor the ink dry on your check, one sunny day in May, you will see a tax rebate. What is the government thinking? I mean besides “how many votes will... Sign in to see full entry.

A new cartoon comes to town. Cartoons, are supposed to be funny. Aren’t they? Most of the time these days, it seems the most a cartoon can do is make me smile. Some try to be socially relevant and that is ok, that might be the only social relevance some people get. Some of my favorites are long... Sign in to see full entry.

Religion, as practiced in Iraq is crazy by any standards. The headline, by Alexandra Zavis of the L.A. Times reads, At least 80 killed during holiest Shiite Observance. What kind of religion is it that includes killing during its holy days? According to the story, it’s the Mahdi, an obscure doomsday... Sign in to see full entry.

It’s called Teeth and I’m not sure whether it is a spoof or just more evidence that Hollywood’s mind is, I’ll be polite, not right. The preview I saw showed a young woman getting a gynecological exam. Anxiously, she asks the male Dr. “is everything all right down there?” The gist of it is she has... Sign in to see full entry.

November 22, 1963, what of significance happened on that day? Most of us probably wouldn’t know right off hand. But if I mentioned the names, John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald, you would (or at least should) know right off what happened that day. For those of us who remember that day, it seemed... Sign in to see full entry.

Expressing opinions can be a prickly business. Especially if those opinions run counter to popular trends. Too often I am guilty of soft-pedaling an issue because I don’t want to offend anyone. The very nature of an opinion means someone, somewhere will disagree. For instance, I was watching an... Sign in to see full entry.