Life Lessons

I've decided to steal an idea from Gideon and write a quick list of things I learned in the last decade: I learned to ignore people who say the decade/century/millenium has one more year to go because there was no year zero. I learned that terrorism in the United States is a more real threat than I thought it was. I learned that just because the people opposing the president … [Read more...] about Things I Learned In the Aughts

Nah. Updating doesn't go quite far enough; I really should eat a little more crow. But just a little. Let's try that again -- and I'm going to leave the original up, for historical purposes. Bloggers -- well, ones who care to do it right -- don't throw errors down the memory hole. Hence, Version 1.1. Let's start off by reviewing the key paragraph in our last episode: On April … [Read more...] about The Smoking Gun, Part II: When the Going Gets Weird, the Weird Get Put on Patrol, Version 1.1

Life does drift, and the discussion over at SJ that Mark links to led to a digression into tactical pens, tactical pants, tactical shirts, and tactical underwear.  (For those of you who have never tried to pronounce the phrase, "tactical pants," please do try it; it's almost impossible to say without giggling.)Which reminds me of a story.But I gotta back up for a … [Read more...] about The Thunderwear Story

As I get older, I feel the need to pass on some of the accumulated wisdom of my years, so with this post I'm starting the Windypundit Life Lessons Department. It's too late to help poor Scott, but the secret to getting people to remember to give back a pen you've loaned them is to hand them the pen but keep the cap.  When they absentmindedly put the pen away, the need to … [Read more...] about Getting Your Pen Back