Jason on July 5th, 2010

The driver of the ice cream truck in our neighborhood has a lead foot. Seriously, I have never seen an ice cream truck drive so fast. There has been a time or two when we fleetingly thought about buying something from him, but he is past our house and around the block before I can [...]

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Jason on August 14th, 2009

My 2009 predictions included this tidbit: 3. The zombie invasion will finally be launched from the Midwest and will explain why dead people have been voting in Chicago for so long (sleeper cells). I still have a few months remaining for this to come true (but who says it hasn’t come true already?). There is [...]

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Jason on August 18th, 2008

And neither does some news writers. A 16-year-old girl was driving and lost control of her vehicle. Her injuries were fatal. Yesterday’s headline: Girl in Fatal Wreck Sent Text Message Moments Before Crash At first glance, it seems this is sad case of not watching the road. The girls mother even says she hopes the [...]

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Jason on August 8th, 2008

Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards admitted to having an extramarital affair after months of denials. In admitting to the affair, Edwards told ABC news that he did not love the woman. I’m sure that makes his wife feel much better. OK, things that don’t make you sympathetic: trying to excuse your adultery by claiming [...]

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Jason on June 14th, 2008

Two days ago I was just about to walk out the door to leave for work when my wife told me that our neighbor called to tell us there was a police officer in front of our house with a gun. I looked out our kitchen window to see the officer walking up my driveway [...]

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Jason on September 19th, 2007

Today is “Talk Like a Pirate Day.” You can also find out what your pirate name is. My pirate name is: Dread Pirate Rackham Like the famous Dread Pirate Roberts, you have a keen head for how to make a profit. You have the good fortune of having a good name, since Rackham (pronounced RACKem, [...]

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Jason on May 29th, 2007

Yesterday Cindy Sheehan announced that she is quitting the (so-called) peace movement and moving back to California to “try and be normal.” In her resignation, she said: “…you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can’t make you be that country unless you want [...]

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Jason on April 24th, 2006

From the “I don’t think it means what you think it means” file: CNN says that Israelis are puzzled over the name Tom Cruise has given his newborn daughter, Suri. He says it is an ancient Hebrew variation of Sarah. Israelis say it sounds more like a blunt term that means “get out of here” [...]

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Jason on December 30th, 2005

A Florida teenager who flew to Iraq without his parents knowledge is headed back to the U.S. He apparently wanted to see the Iraqi elections firsthand. According to the AP, the teenager recently studied immersion journalism and wanted to see what the Iraqi’s are living through. If you haven’t heard of “immersion journalism”, that is [...]

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Jason on December 28th, 2005

Susanne Ostraff was taken hostage in Iraq by terrorists. The German government paid a ransom to free her. Her take on her captors? “I was so happy to know that I had not fallen into the hands of criminals,” So let’s get this right. She thinks the goons who kidnapped her aren’t criminals. Okaaayyy.

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