A Terrible Poem Existing to Base Against.

by Jim Kopetz

Mayan Doomsday 2012 - Bucket Lists

We are all going to die.

Not to sound grandiose, but a truer sentence may not have been written in the English language. Doomsday is upon us, brave reader!

With the Mayan Long Count ending in a week, we must all examine our lives. Our time is  melting, shifting and shrinking with every passing second. Let us not waste it.

UPDATED: The Horror, The Horror: A Tragedy in Newton, CT

by Jim Kopetz

18 20 dead children. Nothing evokes the final words of Colonel Kurtz in Conrad's Heart of Darkness than the atrocity committed on this day in Newtown, Connecticut*.

Power Ball vs. Power Balls

First a quick shout out  to the lucky winners of Power Ball. You statistically defied and beat the odds in a monetary game, and won...congrats! Hope your monetary gain sparks a humanitarian cause. Call it the socialistic side of me, that is, however, where my heart takes me. But I will save my political and humanitarian wishes for another post. Here and now, I'd like to focus on another kind of win, so to speak, and surely akin to my humanitarian views!