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June 28, 2015
RRS: National Nude Recreation Week!
Next week begins National Nude Recreation Week. Here’s an ’11 primer so none of you get caught with your pants down.
A game of 8 ball played between two naked men is still called 8 ball.
That’s just one of the things I learned during the month it took me to exhaustively research my just-posted msnbc.com story heralding National Nude Recreation Week.
It’s an evergreen kind of
A game of 8 ball played between two naked men is still called 8 ball.
That’s just one of the things I learned during the month it took me to exhaustively research my just-posted msnbc.com story heralding National Nude Recreation Week.
It’s an evergreen kind of
June 25, 2015
Doc pays $500,000 for colonoscopy banter
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I was disappointed a northern Virginia jury awarded a colonoscopy patient $500,000 after he heard derogatory banter he’d inadvertently recorded during the operation.
The amount should have been more.
And he should have had to pay it!
Studies have shown work place morale improves when employees are free to blow off steam through irreverent comments about stressful work
I was disappointed a northern Virginia jury awarded a colonoscopy patient $500,000 after he heard derogatory banter he’d inadvertently recorded during the operation.
The amount should have been more.
And he should have had to pay it!
Studies have shown work place morale improves when employees are free to blow off steam through irreverent comments about stressful work
June 24, 2015
Human groomin' & the evolution of bugs
(677 words)
This weekend at a backyard picnic I saw a multitude of grown ups grooming bugs from one another the way fastidious zoo chimps do and wondered what Darwin would say.
Is man evolving or devolving? Is communal human groomin’ a evolutionary advance or a retreat?
I was raised to not put my hands on another human being without his or her explicit sober permission, this included
This weekend at a backyard picnic I saw a multitude of grown ups grooming bugs from one another the way fastidious zoo chimps do and wondered what Darwin would say.
Is man evolving or devolving? Is communal human groomin’ a evolutionary advance or a retreat?
I was raised to not put my hands on another human being without his or her explicit sober permission, this included
June 22, 2015
Running controversial story ideas thru Kyle Filter
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Anytime I’m tempted to write anything controversial I first run it through what I call my Kyle Filter.
The Kyle Filter is this: Would writing about this subject either sadden Kyle or cost me Kyle’s readership for that day?
Yes, I’m so desperate for readers I weigh the sensitivities of each and every one of you before tackling a topic.
The Kyle Filter is very explicit
Anytime I’m tempted to write anything controversial I first run it through what I call my Kyle Filter.
The Kyle Filter is this: Would writing about this subject either sadden Kyle or cost me Kyle’s readership for that day?
Yes, I’m so desperate for readers I weigh the sensitivities of each and every one of you before tackling a topic.
The Kyle Filter is very explicit
June 21, 2015
RRS: Why Father's Day always makes me blue
You’d think after 11 years I’d be over missing my father. Not that I’ll ever stop missing him. I mean over by missing him in my bones everyday. I’m not feeling as blue as I did when I wrote this for Father’s Day ’11. Those are his ashes in the decoupaged wine decanter I crafted for that purposes. I love being a Dad, but I still — on this day especially — really miss being a son.
I’m not
I’m not
June 18, 2015
To err is humon: blogs and typos
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I contend the gracious maxim, “To err is human,” should always include at least one deliberate typo.
“To err is humon.”
It’d be a handy reminder that even in simple sentences intended to forgive human carelessness mistakes are bound to happen.
My life is full of these handy reminders. Some of them read my blog.
I go to great lengths to ensure my blog is error-free.
I contend the gracious maxim, “To err is human,” should always include at least one deliberate typo.
“To err is humon.”
It’d be a handy reminder that even in simple sentences intended to forgive human carelessness mistakes are bound to happen.
My life is full of these handy reminders. Some of them read my blog.
I go to great lengths to ensure my blog is error-free.
June 16, 2015
I am being evicted from The Pond
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It’s not the kind of thing sensible adults brag about, but a long time ago on a weekend roadtrip I was thrown out of every bar in Oxford, Ohio, home of Miami University.
It was in, gee, 1984, I guess.
I wouldn’t exactly call it a quest. It just kind of occurred.
That kind of thing is bound to happen when you’re drunk, dressed head-to-toe in Ohio University Bobcat gear
It’s not the kind of thing sensible adults brag about, but a long time ago on a weekend roadtrip I was thrown out of every bar in Oxford, Ohio, home of Miami University.
It was in, gee, 1984, I guess.
I wouldn’t exactly call it a quest. It just kind of occurred.
That kind of thing is bound to happen when you’re drunk, dressed head-to-toe in Ohio University Bobcat gear
June 15, 2015
The story of the suicidal Corona drinker & The New River Gorge Bridge in West Virginia
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It was the kind of unsightly trash a devoted recycler like myself would instinctively take a few steps out of his way to retrieve for proper disposal. I do this especially when, as in this case, it’s in a national park spoiling one of the most spectacular views in America.
But I didn’t budge.
It was a six-pack of 12-ounce Corona glass bottles. Four of the beers had been
It was the kind of unsightly trash a devoted recycler like myself would instinctively take a few steps out of his way to retrieve for proper disposal. I do this especially when, as in this case, it’s in a national park spoiling one of the most spectacular views in America.
But I didn’t budge.
It was a six-pack of 12-ounce Corona glass bottles. Four of the beers had been
June 14, 2015
RRS: Use rice if phone drops into toilet
Hot and humid here again today. So we’ll be saving our salt shakers by mixing in some rice. This one was from last June and exalts the many miracles of rice, including how people advise you use it if you drop your phone in the toilet, something that never used to happen back when phones were still phone-shaped.
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I can tell the mean season’s begun because all the area salt
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I can tell the mean season’s begun because all the area salt
June 12, 2015
I stop blogging for week in West Virginia; readership surges
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One of the most unsettling aspects of me being a blogger is how blog readership invariably surges whenever I take a sustained pause in blog writing. Happened again this week. We took a family trek across wild, wonderful West Virginia and I hastily posted just one uneven, typo-laden piece.
Yet, my stats page showed a huge readership spike. It was the blog’s best week since
One of the most unsettling aspects of me being a blogger is how blog readership invariably surges whenever I take a sustained pause in blog writing. Happened again this week. We took a family trek across wild, wonderful West Virginia and I hastily posted just one uneven, typo-laden piece.
Yet, my stats page showed a huge readership spike. It was the blog’s best week since
