he drinks a whiskey drink, he drinks a vodka drink

Like most single Americans between the age of 21 and 36, I regularly go out and drink with large groups of people. Wait staff at bars accommodate large groups by ringing an entire table up as a single check. However, in an informal gathering, people come and go at different times. They [...]

to the logical limit

A little under a week ago, I took some flack from folks on LiveJournal for my assertion that sitcoms were an inferior form of art to more active, plot-driven stories. Well, that wasn’t really what I was asserting. What I asserted was that I didn’t like it when sitcoms did that, and that [...]

hit the shore ’cause I’m faded; honeys in the street saying money, yo we made it

Pascal’s Wager is an argument for belief in the Christian God – not proof of its existence, but merely a contention to believe in it – that runs as follows:

[E]ven though the existence of God cannot be determined through reason, a person should “wager” as though God exists, because so living has potentially everything to [...]

you want stylin’, you know it’s time again

A coworker came by my desk waving a sheet of paper. “We’re doing betting squares for the game this weekend. You want in?”
“No thanks,” I said.
“Come on. Only five bucks!”
“Thanks anyway; I’ve got better things to spend my five bucks on.”
“Like what?”
“I don’t know … lunch? Movie tickets? Beer?”
“You won’t [...]

when the law break in, how’re you gonna go?

September 25, 2008: Lawmakers reach nearly reach deal on $700,000,000,000 bailout*
By the time that bright, cold day in April rolled around, I’d been dealing for the monthly Mount Weather Blackjack Game for half a year. I’d been introduced to Mount Weather – the secret FEMA facility in which most of the Bush administration had [...]

professor? what’s another word for pirate treasure?

Before taking the current job, I had one interview and a follow-up with Extensive Enterprises (they took over the old Bear Stearns offices downtown). I had almost reached the elevator after the second interview when the COO caught up with me in a hurry.
“I actually wanted to talk with you a bit more before [...]

cash rules everything around me

So I was sitting on the roof of the Temple, cooling my heels and drinking an Ecto Cooler Hi-C, when the devil appeared behind me.
“Hey Satan,” I said.
“Hey Professor,” he said, sitting down next to me. He kicked his feet over the side.
“I guess you’ve heard that shit’s pretty bad, what with the collapse [...]

what you gonna do (do) after dark?

Did I ever tell you about my time as an economic advisor to the Bush administration? It was a while ago, before I met most of you, and I don’t like to bring it up too often.
I met the C-in-C in a five minute meet-and-greet at his ranch in Crawford. This was early [...]