by admin | Mar 30, 2012 | Randomalities
Throughout the workday, Facebook hums along in the background. It’s my virtual water cooler, where all my friends gather to discuss… well, sometimes nothing much at all. More often than not, they post little pieces of art that have some supposedly deep...
by admin | Mar 29, 2012 | Growing Up
As a kid, I loved The Jetsons. I guess every kid did back then. We were all living at the dawn of the space age where technology held the promise of solving all our greatest problems. While I’m still waiting for the day when I can take a pill that tastes like a...
by admin | Mar 28, 2012 | Life Lessons
While everyone else worries about Y2K and the end of 2012 bringing about momentous change to the world, I am plagued by April. Yes, April. Not a specific year (though years ending in ‘4 seem to be harbingers of major changes), but April in general. For most...
by admin | Mar 27, 2012 | Growing Up
Growing up kind of poor but not knowing it, I always got to live through my friends vicariously, who would go on a big family vacation to Disneyland or some other theme park each summer. Our family didn’t seem to ever have the money to travel far, and even if we...
by admin | Mar 26, 2012 | Religion
I’m not a big fan of sequels, but they seem to be all around us these days. There are even sequels to really bad movies that themselves, didn’t deserve to be made in the first place. Even Gone With the Wind got a sequel, and as we all know, it never needed...
by admin | Mar 23, 2012 | Randomalities
My son was recently thinking about sports. I guess this isn’t unusual for many teenagers but it certainly is for anyone with the last name Zerr. We aren’t, now how should I say it, exactly sporty. At best we were all mediocre in sports, except for my...
by admin | Mar 22, 2012 | Politics
Men in this country love to go to war. We just left Iraq, we’re still in Afghanistan, we’re picking a fight with Iran and at various times in our history we’ve battled the Mexicans, the Brits, the Koreans, the Nazis, the Viet Cong and the Grenadians....
by admin | Mar 21, 2012 | Family
Over this last weekend, I was reminded of the birth of my son almost 14 years ago. It was one of those stories that I still have a chuckle over, largely because like nearly all stories of children coming into this world, this one didn’t go according to plan. We...
by admin | Mar 20, 2012 | Culture
There was a story in the Seattle papers a few weeks ago about a little boy who brought a gun to class. Not any gun, mind you. But a .45. Well, to make a long story short, the gun in his backpack discharged and the bullet hit a classmate who suffered life threatening...
by admin | Mar 19, 2012 | Politics
If you remember your American history, which Rick Santorum obviously doesn’t, the quickest way to get any Americans to do anything is to make it illegal. That’s why Prohibition failed so miserably. It was one of the biggest disasters in the history of...
