Peak Trump

There’s a campaign GIF for Trump that has him photoshopped to become Thanos. He claims his reelection is inevitable. Then,  snaps his fingers and Nancy Pelosi and a bunch of Democrats are wiped from existence. This GIF works on so many levels. First, I mean, come on, Thanos is the BAD Read more…

Housing First

Listening to a “Factually” podcast they talked about the housing and homeless problems in America. The guest, Dr. Sam Tsemberis, described his research working with the homeless which had shown how the most effective method to helping people who were homeless was to give them a place to live. This Read more…

They’re Not Stupid

Ever seen someone do something boneheaded? Ever hear someone say something so completely ignorant of basic facts that you wonder how they manage to feed themselves every day? You probably thought to yourself, ‘this person is a grade A moron.’ Now, think hard and honestly. Have you ever been that Read more…

Chasing the Dream

I was playing a game of Civilization the other night, a game I’ve played in various forms for almost 30yrs now. I set almost all of the settings to random and ended up with the Maori. I built my first city and started figuring out a win condition based on Read more…

Out of Touch Carnivore

We’re approaching Thanksgiving here in the US of A. One of the common tropes about the holiday is getting together with family and having to put up with someone’s old racist grandparents. Or uncle. That got me thinking. What out of touch thing will my generation do when we’re the Read more…

Ok boomer

There’s a new meme floating around the internet. In response to someone saying something condescending, ignorant, racist or out of touch Gen Z coined the response “Ok boomer.”  It’s a digital eye-roll. It’s flippant and irreverent. And it’s perfect. A fair number of people are quite incensed about it. There Read more…

A Little Knowledge

A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. We’ve watched the Houston Astros for the last few years. For the most part, we’ve just watched the games, not paying any attention to any news stories or learning anything about the players. Then that whole controversy with one of the managers Read more…

Big Needles

There’s a common trope about people being scared of the dentist. I’ve never had trouble going to the dentist though. Sure, it’s a bit uncomfortable and the scraping part is annoying. But your mouth comes out feeling clean. Plus having all my teeth at 80 sounds like a good life Read more…

High School Nightmares

One of my nieces started high school this fall. She was pretty nervous about it and while talking I mentioned I still have reoccurring dreams where I’m in high school. I’m late for class, haven’t done the assignment and need to get my books from my locker. But I’ve forgotten Read more…

Time to Go Outside

Ah the roar of jetplanes in the sky. That tells me it’s time to go outside. You might be asking yourself, huh? Well, every year Ellington Field hosts an airshow in mid October.  This also happens to almost always coincide with the first real cool weather in Houston. So we Read more…