May 17,2006: Illegal Back Taxes?

The Senate bill to legalize Illegal Aliens (that's what they are) or Undocumented Workers, as both sides of Congress would prefer to call them, has a provision that part of the amnesty (err, guest worker status leading to potential citizenship) would require that these workers pay their back taxes. Exactly HOW do you track the taxes of a person who was either paid under the table in cash, or has been using somebody ELSE'S social security number for the past five years? This smells like balogna (baloney for you spelling impaired folks) to me, and I do NOT like the taste.

April 11, 2006: Anime Meaningless?

I was minding my own business, when this mother and daughter came into the restaurant and starting talking about animation ... I nearly spewed my shrimp and pork roll when the daurghter said the Japanese stuff was so "meaningless"

March 24, 2006: Stonehenge Hijinks

The stone was such a sore thumb, that I had to wonder if everybody was completely oblivous, or if I had missed the memo from the Illuminati that blinded us all to what looked like a spray-foam stone with a big hole in it.

March 21, 2006: 21st Century Flop

The twentyfirst century has been here for five years, and yet we're still not wearing jet packs and the closest things we have to instant feasts is Microwave food and MRE's. We're not living in the future epitomized by the Jetsons. In fact, I don't think we're living in ANYBODY's vision of the future. We were promised a lot of fantastic advances in technology. There are some obvious reasons why we don't have them.

March 21, 2006: The Fourth Branch

As anybody who graduated from highschool should know, our government has three branches. They're the Judicial, Legislative, and Executive. At least, those are the offical branches. However, there is another group of people who have a huge influence on government. I am speaking, of course, of the Lobbyists.

March 6, 2006: Denny's Debacle

Some of you may think I'm a complete softy about my restaurant reviews. Well, here's the proof that I'm not. Read on, and you will understand the true horror of what it means to starve at a restaurant.

March 1, 2006: VIP Restaurant

Annette and I ate at VIP a few times last year, and never went away unsatisfied. Today's lunch was par for the course.

March 1, 2006: Cell Phone Manners

The Cell Phone has only been in use for the last 33 years. Our cell phone manners are still abysmal. You'd think we would have built on our regular phone manners. perhaps we did.