http://bluntwit.com Absurd musings on life, the universe and nothing Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:24:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So why do you read anything anyway? Great literature, newspapers, magazines, blogs; every word we digest builds up emotional muscle, laughable ligature, spiritual sinews. Like calories, we intake words to live. They inform us, educate us, entertain us and on rare occasions even enlighten us. Unlike bricks and ... http://bluntwit.com/what-do-you-read-on-the-toilet/ For those of you who don’t know the man … The visagely intense Neel Kashkari is the wunderkind that Treasury Secretary Paulson appointed Interim Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability. In this role, he heads the Office of Financial Stability, the office set up to buy troubled financial ... http://bluntwit.com/a-modest-proposal-to-bailout-capitalism-and-save-the-world-as-we-know-it/ I recently read a statistic that more people had moved out of the great state of California than moved in over the past year.  This has gotten everyone from governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to my local paper boy nervous.  "What if you all move away, what happens to my route," a ... http://bluntwit.com/raging-fires-in-california/ Some ardent junkies never ever leave their widescreens because so many exciting shows get broadcast week in and week out on US TV. Little beknownst to them, however, these choice shows are but the lucky survivors of a brutal Darwinian whittling process. You see, prior to each season, ... http://bluntwit.com/tv-shows-that-got-canned/ Some days insight fills you like helium does a balloon.  You float along with a merry lightness of being.  And sometimes the signposts of life light up in bright neon and suddenly you know where you are going and why you are here. Sadly, my tale today describes the other sort ... http://bluntwit.com/the-unbearable-lightness-of-being-fishing/ What goes around comes around, funny how life has a way of balancing everything out. Several years ago when we were visiting my brother in California his young panicky cat slipped under his car and refused to come out. After a watching the entire family try to coax the timid ... http://bluntwit.com/do-you-speak-cat/ So you might have heard a piece that runs occasionally on National Public Radio called “This I Believe” in which Americans from all walks of life share their personal philosophies and core values that guide their daily lives. That show itself is based on a similar show from the ... http://bluntwit.com/always-look-on-the-absurd-side-of-life/ So on a recent flight I felt queasy and slid the little white bag out of the seat pouch in front of me and drew it to my mouth. This sent my two seat mates into rapid, perpendicular leans away from me. No feigned concern registered on their faces. ... http://bluntwit.com/patent-trouble/ Have you ever been tongue tied, rendered mentally or emotionally vacant; found yourself searching, praying for an excuse for your own insouciance? Well, I have. And to assist you in coming up with that ‘just so’ pretext for any transgression, big or small, I have decided to give up a few of ... http://bluntwit.com/excuses-for-why-you-haven%e2%80%99t-been-___ing-lately/ Looking over my recent Blog postings a clear pattern of silliness and disdain for facts emerges. I feel myself being made fun of, mocked for my inane ramblings and pigeon-holed as a one dimensional 'humorist Blogger' by the serious Blog community. So I've decide to change all of that here ... http://bluntwit.com/help-blow-the-lid-on-a-heinous-government-coverup/