Category: Lifestyle
A Reading Suggestion for Freedomists and Other Right-Wing Nuts
Anyone familiar with this blog knows I’m a freedomist. I despise the tyranny of mandatory toil (i.e., a 9-to-5 job), and I despise the tyranny of a nanny state (i.e., a government that “cares” so much about the downtrodden, stupid, and prodigal, it is perfectly willing to dispense with freedom and assert abject control over…
You Don’t Have a Right to Be Above Suspicion
In my freshman year at Buffalo University (1979), I lived on the sixth floor in one of the towers in the Richmond Quad. Because I lived on the sixth floor, I naturally used the tower’s elevator a lot. And I’ll never forget the day I got on this said elevator and became the victim of…
I Cut Wood for 30 Days
Because I’m a fan of bodyweight training, I come across a lot of YouTube videos like the one below. Well, since I’m a little long in the tooth, I really have no interest in doing 100 pull-ups or push-ups a day for 30 days. I just don’t have the intestinal fortitude to push myself physically…
The Miracle of the Modern Home
Mrs. Groovy and I are big fans of Peyton Place, which we watch on YouTube. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Peyton Place, it was the first nighttime soap opera in television history. It ran from 1964 to 1969. Anyway, it was based on a book of the same name. Peyton Place was…
Beware of Vicebergs
Don’t ask me why, but my twisted mind last week thought it would be interesting to equate some of my vices to icebergs. Here’s my reasoning. I’m told by Google that nearly 90 percent of an iceberg’s mass is below the water line. In other words, an iceberg has a visibility ratio of 1 to 9.…