Forget the Alamo?
To the People of Texas & All Americans in the World: Fellow citizens & compatriots—I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna—I have sustained a continual Bombardment & cannonade for 24 hours & have not…
A category I created and then removed long before I added these posts to my Wordpress site (2006) I discarded the category because I didn’t want the blog to be dominated by a list of daily complaints. In 2019 I decided that Daily Beef doesn’t have to be daily for it to be called “Daily Beef”. If the fact these don’t appear daily is now your beef, feel free to write about it.
To the People of Texas & All Americans in the World: Fellow citizens & compatriots—I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna—I have sustained a continual Bombardment & cannonade for 24 hours & have not…
This subject has come up on the Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe a number of times. Steve will harp on about the need for Iron Man to have fuel tanks. “Where does he keep the fuel in that suit?” I…
Texas calls what it does for the primary election an open primary. There really isn’t an animal called open primary. What they mean by open is that it there is no membership in a party required to vote in that…
This morning I was woken up by my son raging about something from the doorway to our bedroom. He and the Wife were having a heated discussion about the internet being out. Again. I’d been asleep for about three and…
Amazon Prime is making their entire video system ad supported: Earlier this year, Amazon announced plans to start incorporating ads into movies and TV shows streamed from its Prime Video service, and now the company has revealed a specific date when you’ll…
In what ways does hard work make you feel fulfilled? There is an ableist subtext about this entire daily prompt. Nonetheless, I have a few articles that I can reference for insights into how I find work fulfilling. When I’m…
I’m splitting time between writing, gaming and nursing family members for the foreseeable future. Because my writing office is harder to get to, because a writing mindset takes time and energy to do properly; whereas the PlayStation with Horizon: Forbidden…
Someone posted to the Meniere’s subreddit, bitching about their lazy sister and her vain attempts to hold down a job. How she whines incessantly about being dizzy and unable to even get out of bed. “Is it really that bad?”…
I never liked drinking alcohol. Still, it’s what we did to socialize and I wanted to fit in. So I drank. I sometimes drank a lot. A lot more than any sane person should drink. Always, every time I drank,…
June 17 – I have been without electricity for hours now since that minor thunderstorm last night. Austin Energy can’t tell me when my power will be back on and their outage maps are no longer letting us know where…