the game of life

ABC News asks a question with two wrong answers: "$599 iPhone Buyers: Hipsters or ‘Losers’?" The very idea that owning a gadget like the iPhone would make you hip is pretty ridiculous (and definitely not hip).  A bit like those dorks who think it’s macho to have a big-screen TV.  Hey, it’s nice, but it Read more

Not everyone empathizes with the foreclosees: "This is what happens when you lend money to poor people."  The best insight: When the only time you’ve ever seen a lion is in his cage in the zoo, you start thinking of him as a pet cat. You forget that he wants to eat you. Read the Read more

Rule #5:  Double dating with your mother is not hip. [Thanks to the Mrs for this one.] And check out this rather confined, but amusing, take on hipsters. Read more

Too, too true: "There’s no escape: Along with hippies, drugs, poverty programs and classic rock, it seems that my generation–and the country–is destined to keep debating Vietnam till the end of our days." We’d get rid of a lot of foolishness if most of the Boomers would just drop dead.  I’d rather get a root Read more

Rule #3:  Buying the latest gizmo–be it iPhone, Tesla Roadster, or Ken Onion chef’s knife–will not automatically make you hip.  You should combine it with seemingly effortless technique and artless modesty–and NO SHOWING OFF!. "It’s nothing, just a little treat for myself.  A Pocket Phone (Jetta, Ginzu) would probably do just as well; I was Read more

Rule #1:  If you ever describe yourself as hip, you’re not hip. Rule #2:  If you try to be hip, you’re not hip.  These people are not hip. Rule #10:  If you need to follow a set of rules to be hip, you’re not hip. Rules 3 through 9 are still in the oven.  Stay Read more

How does George W. Bush, a towel-snapping Texan who puts his feet on the coffee table, drinks water straight from the bottle and was once caught on tape talking with food in his mouth prepare for a state dinner with the queen?Why, hand her a cold Lone Star in a silver-plated koozie when she comes Read more

The word gringo gets bandied about perhaps a bit too frequently here in San Antonio, and I’m always a bit puzzled when I hear it describing me.  Now Mark Krikorian at NRO comes up with the definitive response …my own reaction to hearing the word "gringo" used in a non-ironic way is to look around Read more

The ladies of the Rutgers basketball team will be meeting privately with Don Imus to discuss his "nappy headed ho’s" comment.  Speaking only for myself, I’d rather see the meeting televised on ESPN, with each team member taking turns slapping Imus up and down the basketball court, berating him: "Who you calling ho, you pitiful Read more

vanderLeun is on a tear: "In order to bring pride back to the millions of single mothers of five under the age of 20, the word ‘bastard’ shall be expunged from all dictionaries and literature, to be replaced with "village child." Read more