I work with the public, and have noticed something over the years that really amuses me: Anyone who owns a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, it seems, has to own not just the bike, but absolutely everything that has the HD logo on it. Everything they own has to have the HD on it somewhere. There was a guy who used to come into the restaurant I worked in back in West Virginia; from hat to boots, everything he wore-----EVERY TIME HE CAME IN-----which was frequently, he was a regular----was a...

I and my wife were forced to sit through a lecture, or rather a sermon, by my wife's aunt this weekend. Her aunt is a very devout Christian, one of those who refers to herself and those in her church as Christians, while every other Christian-based denomination is whatever they call themselves, if you get my drift. We were visiting, and were discussing the Halloween/birthday party my wife threw for her mom, who turns 50 on Halloween (the party was held on the 23rd). We were informed tha...

As promised, I have decided to expand on my article and write this little history of the gay man whom I called "Mike", an abrasive co-worker of mine I described in the previous post. Mike, when he first started working with us, was a nice, reserved young man of 19; responsible, caring, very religious and involved in his church, and fun to be around. He was engaged to be married to a nice young lady he'd been with since High School (none of us expected it to work out, of course, since she ...

A little less than a year ago, my wife and I moved to a new city. This meant that we left the wonderful, large, 3-bedroom house we lived in back home for a miniscule, 1-bedroom apt. where there's almost enough air for both of us to breathe at the same time. This meant, in turn, that the nice, big, full 7-foot Christmas tree we always stood in our picture window that faced the street was left in storage, and substituted this year with a pissy little 4-foot Charlie Brown-like tree we purchased ...

I have known quite a few homosexuals in my life, having worked with some, and just having known others as friends. Homosexuality itself is not something I support per se, but they're the ones who are going to have to stand before the Throne and answer for their activities, not me. Through this association, I have acquired what is colloquially known as a "gaydar"....that is, for those who don't know the term, I can often identify gays and lesbians, having just met them and with no other knowle...

Last summer, the liberal Left seized on a movie entitled "The Day After Tomorrow"(which always sounded like a James Bond title to me), in which the effects of global warming caused rampant destruction all over the world. They saw this, it would seem to me, as this generation's "1984" as a story predicting terrible things in the future if events continue unaltered. Friends, I'm here to tell you: Global Warming is a fraud, being perpetrated on us by elements of the Left who would love to ...

I am Rightwinger; I am 37 years old…..I was born in Wheeling, West Virginia in 1967, in “the dawning of the Age of Aquarius”, and in the dusk of the “Summer of Love”. Come to think of it, that’s a little ironic since, in the immortal words of “South Park’s” Eric Cartman, “Hippies piss me off.” My father was a Steelworker, my mother a housewife; yes, “stay-at-home-mothers”, back then, were still called “housewives”. This was only starting, then, to be looked down upon by the ultra-feminists...

I wrote this report for a class I'm taking, and would like a little feedback from you JUers, if you wouldn't mind. We were told to write a report on the 1970s.....being the oldest in the class by probably 15 years at least, I had to laugh. I'm very likely the only one there with a clear memory of the 1970s. The sad thing (for me) is, I wrote this report off the top of my head in about 3 hours.....no research needed. ~~~sigh~~~ Just a glance at some books and articles to check a few facts. ...

When I heard that Johnny Carson had passed on, it stunned me more than I thought it would have. When I was little, I used to stay up with my mom and watch The Tonight Show, and always liked Johnny, even though I didn't get all the jokes. Even when I got older and had school in the morning, I would often (if I could weasel it out of her) stay up just to watch the monologue, a practice which continues to this day; I have to at least watch Jay's opening few minutes. I miss the opening bars ...

I heard on the radio this morning that the Rabbi (I'm sad to say I came into the room a couple seconds too late to get his name) who introduced Madonna, and through her, Britney Spears and many others to the wonders of Kaballah, recently made a wonderfully profound and enlightening statement. It seems that the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust died because they were not practitioners of Kaballah. Yes, that's right; they died not because their persecutors wanted them, as ...

This is a hearty MERRY CHRISTMAS to all my fellow JUers. I know, I know.....many of you don't believe in or celebrate Christmas.....fine. Just please accept it in the spirit in which it is offered, okay? In honor of the holiday, I offer the lyirics to one of my favorite Christmas tunes from childhood: Snoopy's Christmas --by The Royal Guardsmen The news had come out in the First World War---the bloody Red Baron was flyin' once more. The Allied Command ignored all of its m...

My father, Larry, saw his last Christmas in 2001. At his funeral, I related the following tale as part a eulogy. My dad had a unique sense of humor. One Christmas morning, when I was six or seven, I jumped out of bed at some ungodly hour and crept down the stairs to begin the day's festivities. Now, it's important to note here that, in my house, Santa did not wrap his presents; he was a busy man, of course, and had no time to wrap all those toys and presents for every kid in the world,...

I got a little curious about the origins of this relatively recent addition to the holiday season, and did a little research. I took this from Wizblog: ~~~"Considering Kwanzaa Richard J. Rosendall takes a thoughtful and candid look at this relatively new celebration in a Front Page Magazine article. In the course of explaining the origins of Kwanzaa and its founding principles, Rosendall seems to ask just what exactly is being "celebrated" here, and why: My first impression of Kwan...

Got some bad news when I went in to work today; the owner has sold the place, and Monday will be our last day. On top of that, the new owner won't be keeping it as a restaurant, after all. It's going to be a tobacco shop. So, unless I want to sell smokes ( I wouldn't want to do that anyway....my dad died of lung cancer) and rolling papers for a lot less money, I'm out of a job. And at Christmas, nonetheless. The owner has been trying to sell it for some time, I have, in all fairness, to adm...

"Okay Sparky….sit! Good dog…now….roll over! Good dog! Shake….good dog! Now….don’t be gay, Sparky; don’t be gay! Damn it! Take off that pink bandana….where do you keep getting that?"----Stan Marsh, "South Park" Going on three years ago, we adopted a cute little puppy that was supposed to have been a pure breed Yorkshire Terrier…. Not a dog I would normally choose, but they were going to take him to the pound, and rather than subject the cute little guy to the whims of fate, we took him in ...