This was an interesting and scary article I just read on Yahoo! Finance.  It says that social security is finally bringing in less money than it’s paying out.  And to add to that, because people’s homes and stock portfolios have depreciated so much, social security has become a much more critical piece of elderly people’s [...]

This has probably been well-covered in Dilbert, but there are some phrases I am so sick of:

Quickly touch base
Reach out to
Connect
It is what it is
Shoot me an email
Give me a buzz
Get on the horn
Any business motivation phrase like, “Attitude determines altitude”
In the loop
Fill you in
At the end of the day…
Outside the box
Take ownership of
Call it [...]

I hope this isn’t turning into an entertainment blog, but I think Conan O’Brien is worth writing about, no matter the forum.  Suffice it to say that I think Conan is the greatest person on TV.  In response to all of the recent shuffling of late night television shows on NBC, Conan issued this public statement (it’s [...]

It’s 2010.  I have nothing really to contribute to all the writings/summaries/best of’s on the past year and decade.  I’ll just say that it was an amazing decade of growth for me personally in many ways.  Blurt Daily was one of the ways which helped me mature.  We originally set up Blurt as a spontaneous way [...]

There are so many crises in our world right now.  Most likely, many of them are only a crisis because the media has told us they are a crisis.  In any case, people are talking about a water crisis.  The theory goes that with population growth and climate change, water is becoming more and more scarce and conservation [...]

This is a pretty random thing to be annoyed with, but I deal with it all the time at work.  It’s when you get an official notice from the government, telling you have to file a form or submit something online.  That’s bad enough.  But the thing that really bothers me is when they say [...]

Saturday Night Live is so good at distilling political issues down to a few jokes and pointing out the absurdities those issues.  This clip might be kind of long, and at times kind of crude (sorry), but it really does get a point across.  We may get annoyed and laugh at the spending that our [...]

Bryan sent this to me and he thought it was funny.  Andy thought it was “eh”.  I like it.  I think it describes perfectly how much confidence the American public had in President Obama when he was first elected.  Is he still this omnipotent?

OK, yes, I watch The Biggest Loser.  There is something exciting about watching big people lose weight.  But there is one aspect to one part of the show that has always made me feel uncomfortable.  And in the past two episodes, it has really become clear that it is a problem.  Two episodes ago (in [...]

Whenever a cartoon character had a good idea, the above image would pop up over his head.  Whenever our textbooks growing up wanted to show us a real-life application of the material being discussed, it would be printed in the margin accompanied by the above image.  The list could go on and on about where [...]