Ah, the halcyon days of youth, when we pledged eternal loyalty to our current best friend, frequently sealing the bargain with the exchange of tokens or blood! But, fortunately, we grew up, and learned the folly of making long-term contracts without an escape clause. Our wisdom was even continued into the realm of technology. As […]

You recall, no doubt, Dear Reader, from your misspent youth of watching cowboy movies, that ranchers in the Wild West allowed their herds to forage on the open range. Because more than one herd might be munching in the same area, and these herds might be under different ownership, it was the practice to mark […]

We are all well aware, Dear Reader, that the purpose of a Government advertisement or slogan is not to inform, but to deceive. How else may we explain that the motto of the Strategic Air Command, the now disbanded organization that flew big, ugly B-52 bombers loaded with thermonuclear death over our heads twenty-four hours […]

As an experienced Citizen of the World, Dear Reader, you are no doubt acquainted with the German predilection for organizing and channeling human activities into the proper path. They achieve this end by training the populace to SIT DOWN, SHUT UP, AND OBEY ORDERS! Sometimes this approach leads to episodes of unpleasantness, such as World War […]

In 1983, Monty Python, the British comedy group made up of English Literature Ph.D.’s who decided they wanted to do something meaningful with their lives rather than rot in Academia, did a famous sketch on organ transplantation. A fellow answers a knock at his door by two white-coated minions of the National Health Service (Britain’s […]