• Spring

    By William Shakespeare: When daisies pied, and violets blue, and lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, mocks married men, for thus sings he: ‘Cuckoo! Cuckoo, cuckoo!’ O word of fear, unpleasing to a married ear. When shepherds pipe on oaten straws,…

  • Boomerang Generation Sanguine About Staying with Mommy And Daddy

    More than three-quarters of young adults ages 25 to 34 who have moved back home with their families during the Great Recession and the troubled economic years that followed say they’re satisfied with their living arrangements and upbeat about their future finances. Those arrangements have benefited their parents as well: almost half of all boomerang…

  • March Madness

    As a general rule I hate college basketball. There is no real way to enjoy a sport where the players can be disqualified based on their grades, or where you can’t watch your favorite team due to the restrictions of the local cable provider. College hoops is nice if you can watch it on the…

  • Barbie in the Window

    One day a father gets off from work, and suddenly remember’s its his daughter’s birthday. He pull’s in at a toy store, walk’s in and asks the sales lady, “How much for one of those Barbie’s in the display window?” The sales lady replies, “Which one do you mean, sir? We have Workout Barbie for…

  • The Manly Attitude

    The Manly Man is a swaggering man, carrying himself with pride and self-assurance. He is not a follower and may not be a leader but, is unswayed by external forces. He goes where he wants, wears what he wants and says what he wants with no fear of condemnation. A real man may even eat…

  • Saturday Morning Fight

    Three black men and one Chinese woman walk into a room and close the door. After fifteen minutes, you hear rumbles of male voices, and an occasional shriek of a female who obviously has something on her mind. Now before your perverted mind goes too deep into the gutter, the four people are college students,…

  • Human Geography: Or the Age of Location

    I present for your amusement, a quick lesson in human geography. The process is simple, as we age, our bodies tend to represent the various parts of the world we live in. It is better to know where in the world you are going as you grow older, so that you are prepared when you…

  • A Blue Rose

    here’s a storey submitted by my mother. Not sure where she found it, but its awesome. She is truely an old dandelion. Having four visiting family members, my wife was very busy, so I offered to go to the store for her to get some needed items, which included light bulbs, paper towels, trash bags,…

  • Blind Rage: or Where the Dogs Can’t Go

    Society is becoming more self-centered and stupid every day. While watching the news and reading blogs on the internet, I see countless stories of discrimination against people based on race, color, gender, sexual orientation, and disability. As someone who has a disability, blindness, any attacks on people in that category really piss me off. Lately…

  • Appeals court rejects anti-gay graduate student’s bid for reversal of her expulsion

    Appeals court rejects anti-gay graduate student’s bid for reversal of her expulsion ATLANTA — The U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a decision by a U.S. district judge who ruled Augusta State University may expel a graduate student who refused to comply with graduate degree program requirements citing her Christian beliefs that homosexuality…