Author: Mark Draughn

  • Ready For Action?

    Gumballs I’m starting to get interested in photography. This Christmas my wife gave me a new digital camera that has all the features I need to practice my picture taking without being able to blame the camera for the bad ones. Yesterday, I was driving around and got caught at an intersection that was blocked… Read more

  • God Bless HIPAA

    Glenn Reynolds’ wife is home from the hospital six hours later than expected because of all the paperwork. Over at Three Men And A Blog The Doctor is using this as a reason to complain about all the paperwork too. As for me, I don’t mind the paperwork so much. In fact, I kind of… Read more

  • Hunter S. Thompson, R.I.P.

    I haven’t read a lot of Hunter S. Thompson’s work, but I enjoyed reading what I did. I’m not sure there was a point to it all, but it was fun along the way. So now he’s gone and killed himself. Self-inflicted gunshot wound, right in the head. Anybody shocked by this turn of events?… Read more

  • The Pitter-Patter of Jackboots

    So there I was, eastbound on Higgins Road, crossing Nagle Avenue, when out of the corner of my eye, just down Nagle at the Foster Avenue intersection, I see a flash. I circled around to take a look: I, for one, do not welcome our new robot overlords. UPDATE: Here are some shots showing the… Read more

  • Marriage Is an Institution

    Wedding bells are in the air for Mary Kay LeTourneau and Vili Fualaau, and isn’t it about time these two crazy kids got hitched? Get them a gift. People have often noted that society normally treats statutory rape differently depending on whether the older person is a man or a woman. A man is assumed… Read more