Archive: December 2011
Anybody else got any big ideas? Original image courtesy of Wikipedia.

Let’s say you’ve gotten the best idea of your whole lifetime and you just have to share it with somebody. You grab the nearest Being by the lapels, even though he is a head taller and a fair amount wider than you. In your excitement and enthusiasm you fail to notice that this particular gorilla [...]

Black Friday crowd. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

I’ve never been able to understand the mayhem associated with the day after Thanksgiving, Black Friday, particularly since that day sort of marks the beginning of Christmas shopping, a holiday ostensibly about peace, joy and love. Not so for a 15 year-old girl from Muskegon, MI, who was trampled (fortunately not to death) by rabid [...]