I blame Anthony Weiner. Sure, it could be the usual Summer Doldrums, wherein the sunshine and long, lazy nights make the idea of venting on the Internet seem dull puerile. And there’s a sting possibility that Crusader Kings has been eating into my blogging time. But I prefer to think that the prospect of commenting… Read More Severe Shortage of Craps to Give Ending
This is really embarassing and sad. Anthony Weiner has today boasted today that ‘people who know me are still going to vote for me’ as he headed back out on the campaign trail in Manhattan, in defiance of revelations about explicit messages and photos that he sent to a 23-year-old political activist a year after… Read More There’s Stupid, and Then There’s Anthony Wiener…
I was gone all weekend sans internet, so I’m just glomming onto this now. I am without words. See, if that had happened last December, I might have bought into all that Mayan Prophecy horse-puckers. I mean, what’s next?
You have been warned. If I was a cynical man, I’d suspect that whatever intern at NSTB “confirmed” this decided that it was too funny NOT to go on the air. In any case, if you’re like me, you will laugh, and then despise yourself for laughing. What makes it extra funny is the serious… Read More Everyone who clicks on this video is going to Hell
The terrorized wives of convicted lefty terrorists are less victimy than the hypothetical pregnant women who just need nine-month abortions. I mean, does Tetyuau Kimberlin even have cute pink shoes like Wendy Davis?
A while back, I jumped off an article about one of the world’s remaining functional monarchies, that of Morocco, to an argument that survival was the key to success for a monarch. I used the Capetians as an example. Today I’m going to unsay a little of that, and use as an example a dynasty… Read More Medieval Dynastic Fail: The Normans
150 years ago, today, my great-great-great-grand-uncle, Dallas Patrick, a private in 11th Pennsylvania Reserve Infantry (40th Volunteers), was taking part in the largest land battle ever to take place on the North American continent. I’ve been to Gettysburg on several occasions, and some part of me would kind of like to be there to see… Read More The Myths of Gettysburg
I am giving away 10 copies of my new book, Solar System Blues, to Goodreads members. Goodreads Book Giveaway Solar System Blues by Andrew J. Patrick Giveaway ends July 31, 2013. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win You know what to do.
Solar System Blues began as a spoken-word element of a band show for The Fest, a music and arts festival that my brother and his friends used to put on in Lancaster, PA every July. It’s the first thing I consciously created a First Draft for, and circulated said draft for comments from friends and… Read More My Daddy Drives a UFO….The Official Launch of Solar System Blues
I’ve ignored this, because I don’t often concern myself with cooking show celebrities, because I hate cooking shows. They inflame the desire but cannot satisfy it. They are to the palate what strip clubs are to the libido. What noise crossed my transom made it sound as though Paula Deen had dropped an n-bomb sometime… Read More Paula Deen is . . . an Old Southern Cook. The Rest is Kabuki.
