Skunky’s Monkey House

I’ve recently been bothered by the really poor headlines and glaring typos on major news outlets web sites. I mean, who writes headlines like “Candidate X wins, what does that mean?”. It means he got the majority of the vote you idiot! I realize that wasn’t the intention of the question, but it’s still a [...]

He’s baaaaack! No, not me, everyone’s favorite racist asshat, the exalted, high and mighty Reverend Al Sharpton. This past weekend at a golf tournanament in Hawaii, a commentator made a poor judgement call and used the L word while talking about Tiger Woods. No, no, no, not that L word. I mean, Tiger’s wife is [...]

I don’t know what the hell is wrong over at Verizon but I’m beginning to think the place is being run by monkeys! For the past few months my internet connection has become unreliable in the evenings. Usually by 7pm EST I’m experiencing constant disconnects. Sometimes the the modem doesn’t even blink, literally. The DSL [...]

How many times have you read a news story where the reporter gets their information from some unnamed source that “spoke on condition of anonymity”. The reporter then goes on to write and quote this hearsay in the article as if it’s an official fact. I am so sick of the tripe that gets reported [...]

Yes, history is important. We can learn from it. We can use it to prevent repeating grave errors. We can learn a lot from history. Today on CNN’s front page the top story is “History floats to the top as lake recedes” and they show the photo of a drying, cracked mud covered lake bottom [...]