As a follow-up to my article I hate St. Patrick's Day , I thought I'd be an equal opportunity hater and express my disdain for Cinco de Mayo as well. This is a dumb celebration cooked up by Chicano nationalists in America. And the same idiotic "We're all Irish on St. Patrick's Day" crowd looks forward to getting drunk and causing trouble. Gringoes galore. Even el Presidente Jorge Bush is a fan. Where I grew up there was a substantial community of Americans of Mexican descent. They w...

I just looked at an article that criticized heterosexual men for being upset thinking that homosexual men were attracted to them (personally, if what I've seen and heard is true, the perceptions of heterosexuals aren't always unwarrented). While this has nothing to do with homosexuals or homosexuality, I thought it made an interesting point about the male ego: ... The merits of polygamy versus monogamy have been debated for thousands of years. Both sides normally assume that men, o...

Well, it appears tornado season is arriving here in Illinois at its normal time. I've seen tornado warnings as early as mid-February and as late as late October here. I'm looking out the window now and I see a completely clear sky and a sun that is getting close to falling below the treetops. But the line of storms will be here soon. We enjoyed a beautiful, albeit windy, 75 degree day here. Tomorrow should be about 20 degrees cooler. Tornado season means one thing here. There will be a...

With today being my thirty-fifth birthday, I decided to rummage through the crap in my basement to see what I've collected over the years. I got to the musical collection. I reached in the box and pulled out a Ministry cd, The Land Of Rape And Honey . It was a cassette tape when I first got it as an angry youth during my freshman year of college. But my lousy walkman way back when tore the tape up. So I later got the cd. I can't understand why I ever put this album in a carboard box in...

Ok, perhaps hate is too strong a word. Can't stand is more appropriate. I grew up on the South Side of Chicago in the 70's and 80's. The neighborhood was made up of various groups of people. There were those of Polish, Irish, Mexican, Lithuanian, Bohemian/Moravian (what you would call Czech) and German descent. If I had to guess ratios in 1980, I'd say 30%, 25%, 15%, 7.5%, 7.5%, 5% , 10% other (Slovakian, Slovenian, Croatian, Greek, French, Puerto Rican, Scandinavian are some I re...

drmiler: One thing I can tell you with absolute certainty. You personaly do not have any AP rounds unless you lifted some from an armoury. They are illegal to own or sell in the US. The closest thing you can get is if you have some "Wolf" brand 7.62x39 ammo which has a mild steel core but is NOT an actual AP Round. Your right about another thing. If your going to answer this maybe you should start a seperate blog. I'd rather you get the points than AJ. The federal law sou r ces I have...

Let's start off appropriately. Innocent until proven guilty is really only relevant within the court of law. So to all his supporters, please stop exclaiming Michael Jackson is innocent until proven guilty at the top of your lungs. The only people that that concerns are the judge and, more importantly, the jury. But is innocent until proven guilty even a realistic statement? Is it even logical? I argue that based on the setup on our legal system, it is a total fallacy to use s...