I don’t want to talk about healthcare today. Not much, anyway. It’s weird to be in a maelstrom of euphoria that seems so unwarranted and unfounded, touched with a counterpoint of ludicrosity almost as bizarre. It’s a little like the…
Category: A Day in the Life
I Want to Live in a Tall Building
This post has been over sixteen months in the making. Yesterday we spent most of the day at Ariel & Michael’s, hanging out with banter, books, and Boggle. It was exactly the kind of day we’d hoped to have when…
Why I Don’t Believe in Representative Government
Forty-seven million Americans are without health insurance. Why? Because they can’t afford it. And what’s Washington’s solution? Require people to buy private insurance with the government providing a subsidy to the health insurance companies. What a pathetic state of affairs…
Become a BP Fan on Facebook!
Despite my concerns with Facebook’s impact on blogging, the time has come for me to recognize that the train is leaving the station and I might as well get on board… The Blue Pyramid on Facebook Click the above to…
Man vs. Machine
There’s something very weird about expecting turnkey results from technology and having it back out on you. Back in 1995, my high school friends and I saw “The Net” when it first came out. The internet was just a vague…
The Week That Was (or: How are We in Middle March?)
It’s been a bit of a weird week. It seems a lot of people are discombobulated. In flux. It’s hard to say how much of that revolves around the fact that my life is thoroughly immersed in people who rely…
A New Hope
Two days ago, I was falling apart. Now I’m putting it all back together. In fact, I started writing a post called “Disintegration” around this time on 3 March. All I could get through was a single line. It read:…
Wildly Content
Waking up to a snowstorm, with a tournament ahead and yesterday’s great news behind, I find myself to be wildly content. It may seem like a strange state of being, to feel such a passionate sense of a relatively dispassionate…
American Dream On Advances in ABNA!
About an hour ago, it was announced that American Dream On had bested 80% of its competition in the General Fiction category of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and has moved on to the second round. Given that was based…
A Thousand Words
It’s not exactly people bringing down the statue of Saddam Hussein, but this kind of image is being levied to the American people as a sign of the grand liberation they’re bringing to a backwards and otherwise hopeless land in…