by Slade | Oct 16, 2018 | Current Events
The French are good at two things: Eating snails and making up words that we don’t have in English. Seigneur-terraces is their word for people who sit at coffee shops and take up tables for hours without spending any money. When I waited tables, we used to call them,...
by Slade | Oct 4, 2018 | Current Events
You probably know by now that I have basically eschewed politics, given the finger to both sides, and hunkered down as a spectator to what I think has become the XFL of global politics. What that allows me is the freedom to watch it without having a team, the same way...
by Slade | Sep 4, 2018 | Current Events
Flags are symbols. Symbols take whatever meaning you give them. Don’t tell me what the flag means, I have four of them hanging in my living room, flown over missions in Kyrgyzstan, Iraq, and Afghanistan. I know what it represents to me and how I feel about it,...
by Slade | Aug 7, 2018 | Current Events
I’ve only been to jury duty once, I think. It was probably twenty years ago. I’ve never been back because they mail you a jury summons and I haven’t done anything other than dump my mailbox into the trash for the last I-don’t-know-how-long. I honestly don’t get...
by Slade | Jul 11, 2018 | Comedy, Current Events
I was texting with a friend of mine yesterday about the insanity of our information pipeline. She was trying to remember the psychological term for some thing or another. I honestly can’t remember exactly what we were talking about, but it was akin to Survivor’s...
by Slade | Jun 21, 2018 | Current Events, Kicks in the Ass
People believe different things. They believe those things because they are selfish. It’s okay, you are too. We all are, in basically every decision we make. And we disagree because we want different things. There are people fighting to gain what should be basic...
by Slade | Jun 8, 2018 | Current Events, Travel
I don’t do heroes. They’re just not my thing. I would be lying though, and boldly, if I said Anthony Bourdain was not one to me. I still struggle immensely with where I am headed in this industry. I’ve always felt scatterbrained about it, and while stand up is...
by Slade | Apr 10, 2018 | Current Events
If they give away super powers, you won’t find me in the Omniscience line. The internet is like having every possible thought all at one time, and this constant access to information and opinion ruins the experience a bit. While I’m admittedly dating myself here, I...
by Slade | Feb 20, 2018 | Current Events
People say that teachers should be armed. I’ll grant that that’s one possible course of action. Here’s some perspective though. My mother taught school for thirty years, give or take. I cannot fathom a real-world scenario where she takes down a determined...
by Slade | Feb 13, 2018 | Current Events, Kicks in the Ass
As we move in to an age of increasingly more connectedness, our personal space becomes much more sacred. I have an abundance of digital “help,” from the smart security cameras at my house to my Google Home to my Hue lights to all of the various apps I use on a daily...
