The local community rag, the Green Hills News, has only one thing going for it — the hilarious “Ticked Off!” section where locals call in to bitch about something, usually gays or immigrants or property taxes or lazy overpaid elementary school teachers or Muslims. Here are two typical gems from this week:
Recently when I went [...]

The Red Rubies, the girls softball team I coach, can still avoid a losing season by winning or tying their last two games. We won our second of ten tonight, the first that I actually was here to coach and see (the first was when I was in Savannah). We also tied two, so we [...]

(Lou Reed with The Velvet Underground, Live at Max’s Kansas City)
For any Janes out there, particularly the sweet ones, Goyatunes is reloaded this week with six versions of “Sweet Jane,” all live, starting with The Velvet Underground, on down to The Gang of Four and a long goofy version by Lou Reed by himself. This [...]

Nice color and bouquet — blackberries, licorice, a wisp of eucalyptus — but too much oak and a bit cloying. Initial fruit fades on the finish as structure loses focus and wavers. Quaffable and worth a taste; acceptable for casual entertaining, but don’t buy it by the case.

The Apple in the Big Apple from the inside of the Glass Cube. Now, you Windows users, prepare to be assimilated. Read more about Apple’s branding and design genius here.
Here’s another nice pic by Gary Allen, Apple enthusiast who travels the world to attend Apple Store openings:

Hell, here’s a blow-by-blow 8-minute video of the opening [...]

“We are trying to make an assimilation statement,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., one of the Senators who voted to make English the “national language.” Designating a single national language in a largely mono-cultural, mono-lingual country might make sense although it would still be silly and redundant, but to do so in a country as [...]

I don’t care if you like Apple products or not. You have to acknowledge, however, the brilliant branding of Apple products and Steve Jobs’ uncanny sense of style, design, innovation, and ability to define the cutting edge. I love Apple products not only because they are damn good and damn stylish; I’ve stuck with them [...]

A lot has been written about the emasculization of Japan and Japanese males after the war. First, a lot of males died in the war and under the new postwar Constitution women got a lot more rights. Japan has been the junior (= subordinate female) partner in the Japan-US Security Pact and in most international [...]