Of course truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction, after all, has to make sense. (Mark Twain)
A hypothetical situation: You’re addressing a body of elected representatives, most of whom you assume (rightly or wrongly) are not jabbering, drooling lunatics. You tell them to select from the assemblage someone who hasn’t held a job in his adult [...]
Archive for the ‘Musings’ Category
Let’s Be Frank
Bill Chinnock: RIP
I was pleasantly surprised to find an acquaintance on Facebook recently. His name is Mark Saleski. Finding him on Facebook reminded me that we initially connected because of the passing of Bill Chinnock, an amazing musician and human being who left us three years ago last Sunday: March 7, 2007.
When I learned of Bill’s passing [...]
What Might Have Bin (Laden)
When you come right down to it, it doesn’t make the slightest bit of difference where Osama Bin Laden is, does it? We’re talking about a socially maladjusted crank, who shows up once in a while with the video equivalent of schoolyard taunting; and we all get our shorts in a bunch:
You can’t catch me. [...]
Going Out With Shoreline Out And About
Global Swarming
A confession: I don’t believe in man-made global warming. And the only thing I don’t believe in even more than man-made global warming is that phonies like The Reverend Al Gore, High Priest of the Church of the Warming Globe, should receive Academy Awards and Nobel Peace Prizes for ranting hysterically, ignorantly, and self-servingly. But, [...]
Morning Stroll
Beg, Borrow Or Wheels
Going to Bat for News
Offensive Defense
The passing of Alexander Haig over the weekend had me thinking about the fact that we don’t revere our soldiers the way we used to. Readers of Shoreline Out & About may think me apathetic to points of view falling to the left on the political spectrum. Not so. I’m entirely sympathetic to the fact [...]
Hunter S. Thompson: RIP
Hunter S. Thompson died at his own hand five years ago this coming Saturday, February 20. I learned of his passing at about 10:00 the next morning. Despite my brute incomprehension of what I was reading, it struck me as a rather Thompsonesque moment: It was snowing – bleak, cold, brutally cutting. I’d gone to [...]
Sister Justice Gets LASIK
In yet another burgeoning government industry, the FBI has an entire website devoted to hate crimes alleged to have been committed in a given year, replete with myriad tables to accommodate myriad categories of said crimes. This used to be my favorite table because it carries the suggestion of clairvoyance, which might come in handy [...]
Happy Birthday YouTube

So, Youtube turns 5. Kinda weird, isn’t it? I mean here is a phenomenon that took the world by storm. Another example of a great idea that goes “viral”, and nets it’s creators 1.65 BILLION dollars. Yeah, that was BILLION. But why is that? Because in this world of instant gratification, Youtube was the firstest [...]
Childhood Crushes
The Rush to Rushmore
Some of last year’s news was just too good to leave alone. This, the sixth in a modest series of reviews of some of 2009’s more entertaining stories, commemorates a notable but little noted coronation from August 4 past.
As any self respecting Three Stooges fan knows, “Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither was [...]
Murder on the Rhetoric Express
“First I would straighten out the language.”
— Confucius, asked how he would restore order to the world.
Among the other experiences of my working life, I’ve served two of America’s major insurance and financial services organizations. Those are the terms, of course, by which those companies chose to describe themselves; and the self-referential selection of those [...]









