Author - Chris Weagel
Chris Weagel writes about the intersection of technology and parenting for Wired Magazine. No he doesn't. He can't stand that shit.
[START QUOTED LETTER] Dear Honey, I'm sorry. I am a conservative husband, belong to the Tea Party and I voted for John Kasich. I have been married to a Cleveland teacher for almost 14 years and my vote let her down. I apologize: For letting people tease you about having the summer off and not asking them to thank you for the tough days ahead that begin in early August. I know for a fact you work more hours in those 10 months than many people do in 12. All those hours are earned. For complaining that my Sunday is limited with you because you must work. For making you think you have to ask permission to buy a student socks, gloves and hats. For not understanding that you walk through a metal detector for work. For leaving dirty dishes in the sink [when you awoke] for your 4 a.m. work...
They grind up diamonds and pour them into pure spring water. Then drop it into your eyes. For at least thirty minutes, you can see four additional colors normal humans are blind to.
Then you’re sick for the next week.
Starts at $40.
At such moments, it’s also hard to contest the conventional wisdom. To do so will guarantee that you’ll be treated as some kook or pariah. It won’t even matter if you’re vindicated in the long run. You’ll still be remembered as some weirdo who was out of step.
And those who push the misguided consensus will mostly go on to bigger and better things, as people who have proved their worth even if they got it all wrong. Such is the way the national U.S. political/media system now works – or some might say doesn’t work.
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In response to the tragic events in Japan, the more than 65,000 Wisconsin workers represented by AFSCME Councils 24, 40 and 48 are donating $50,000 to an earthquake relief fund established by RENGO, Japan’s trade union confederation on behalf of all AFSCME members nationwide.
“Even as our members are facing great stress from being singled out as scapegoats for our state’s budgetary problems, their true nature shows though,” says Marty Beil, executive director of the Wisconsin State Employees Union, Council 24.
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We were working down at the Circle K, making slushes when it happened. He burst through the door with masks on three sides of his head. A dragon mask, a sheep mask and an angel mask. He was wearing two coats, so I couldn't tell which way his arms were going or if they even were arms. Carrying on and banging a tambourine and screaming about getting his "RIGHT HONEST DISCOUNT ON TOWELS AND SEAT COVERS." Just kept repeating that. He hadn't gotten but 14 feet before Sally tripped the silent alarm and I and Robert climbed wholly into the slush chamber on machine two. That's where the authorities found us, cross-eyed and speaking only in numbers. But the bond we developed that day remains strong. I attribute that to the long hours we spent staring at one another's tongues. [The above has been...
Have you ever seen a file cabinet explode?
Neither have I.
Have you ever seen a file cabinet explode while it sat with other exploding file cabinets on the back of a truck going 80 mph along a Cincinnati highway?
Answer: Not yet.
Knife gambling is the worst kind, but also the most rewarding. That's the kind where each of the games is run by a large, talking, anthropomorphic Knife or Blade. He (usually a he) deals the cards and calls the numbers and counts the chips. And when you lose, he takes your palm and makes a deep lasting gouge. He aims to scar.
Some of these knife-men have mustaches, which is odd considering they share no other mammalian traits.