grin and bare it
A blog by Matthew Dicks
Ice the bunny
My wife can’t throw away stuffed animals, even if she despises the furry, inanimate objects. Tonight she attempted to throw away a worn-out, bedraggled, hand-me-down stuffed bunny, but try as she might, she couldn’t bring…
Read MoreRead, damn it
From the Washington Post piece entitled Get a Good Read on the Market: Pick Up a Book: As Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman Charlie Munger has said in assessing the success of his bossandsidekick, Warren Buffett:…
Read MoreTurkey baster
I’ve often been advised to learn something new everyday. And I try. Today’s bit of knowledge was especially interesting. I learned that artificial insemination via an anonymous sperm donor can be done from the confines…
Read MoreStepping back into history
I spent the afternoon visiting my childhood home in Blackstone, Massachusetts, a house that I lived in from the ages of three to seventeen before my evil step-father stopped paying the mortgage, forgot to tell…
Read MoreMass suicide is clearly insane, but the parting of the Red Sea lives in Crazy Town, too.
I’ve been thinking a lot about Heaven’s Gate. Remember the cult? They were the people who believed that an alien spacecraft was following behind the Hale-Bopp comet, and that in order to catch a ride…
Read MoreBeware of what?
What does the homeowner want me to believe? Beware of God, because horrible crimes and atrocities are committed in his name (not to mention a number of atrocities committed by the Big Guy himself, if…
Read MoreWould I even be hungry?
This list of final meal requests from death row inmates fascinates me. Each represents the last request from a dying man. Like Gerald Mitchell: One bag of Jolly Ranchers. And how about Miguel Richardson: Chocolate…
Read MoreDo I have to be a Frenchy?
New Rule: When you don’t know something, there is no need to announce your ignorance to the world, because it might just be something that everyone else knows, making you look even stupider than you…
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