Irish-American Contributions to America:

Matthew Hogan | Comments (1)
March 17, 2009 10:46 AM

My annual, if increasingly outdated, not-so-reverent St. Patrick's Day look at my tribe's contributions to America. The part on the Irish (Gaelic) language is for us language nerds only but Irish-American contributions to municipal corruption, public vomiting, and terrorist fundraising are not overlooked....[More]

RIP Marwan Burgan

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March 7, 2009 09:29 AM

I could never perform this well in my best days, much less about 24 hours before I passed away from the ravages of pancreatic cancer and/or its treatments. Thanks for enriching my life and so many others' as well (including, like me, non-Democrats!). RIP always....[More]

The Future in All Its Facebook Horror

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February 28, 2009 09:26 AM

Shamelessly poached via Jim Henley, comes this vision of the future....[More]

Gender Observation & Hair Care

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November 15, 2008 08:59 PM

I've come to the realization that no matter how destitute, bankrupt, broke, foreclosed-upon, forlorn, bereft, or empty-handed a woman may be, she always has enough to buy hair color. I picture in some post-feminist future a lost all-woman astronaut exploration trip to the Martian poles. They are found months later...[More]

Paul Newman, RIP

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September 28, 2008 12:11 AM

Not a great fan, but always found him likeable. (For the MENA-oriented, he might be especially loved or reviled given his role as The Man Who Made Israel Sexy, leaving the gals sighin' for Zion.) And funny, he didn't look Slovak. Legends have come and gone recently. I am glad...[More]

Gender Differences, part 657

Matthew Hogan - May 22, 2009 10:16 PM | Comments (3)
Filed Under: American Culture , Egghead Stuff , Irony Watch , Random Personal , Rants- General

Just noticed over the course of a lifetime, though perhaps just in my narrow experience or my still narrower imagination, a subtle difference in how the shock-driven harrumph is expressed:

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Lawrence Olivier - Lawrence Olivier = William Shatner

Matthew Hogan - May 13, 2009 06:40 AM | Comments (0)
Filed Under: American Culture , Egghead Stuff , Random Personal , Rants- General

So went an old actor algebra snipe I read somewhere. Which while humorous, I do disagree. But this person here says what I want to say:

The insufferably cerebral and moralistic elements of Star Trek have been bad enough to make even devoted fans wince many, many times, and if the acting often seemed weak it might have been because so few actors can credibly recite some of the drivel generations of actors have been forced to say over the decades.

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Probing Fears and Medical Tests

Matthew Hogan - May 2, 2009 07:06 AM | Comments (1)
Filed Under: Random Personal , Rants- General

Three things I fear about the standard prostate exam:

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Keynes Enabled

Matthew Hogan - April 12, 2009 07:24 AM | Comments (0)
Filed Under: American Culture , Economic Issues , Egghead Stuff , Humor Attempts , Irony Watch , Rants- General , US Politics

Keynesianism is only a few weeks into official respectability here in the superpower, and already there is self-parody. ("The idea's to stimulate the economy. So what if we blow a few billion on the wrong things? ")

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