Rest In Peace Already, Would Ya?
Celebrity deaths are a weekly or monthly event, and they seem to have taken on a life of their own. There are the careers of the celebrities in question, and…
Of Life Insurance and Other Imaginary Wealth
I keep seeing these commercials for life insurance in between my viewings of the Patty Duke Show and Mr. Ed on my favorite converter box channel. I never really grasped…
Gawd Bloimy: A Course In Linguistics
In a time where the governments and the general public are hot on the heels of the banking corporations, trying to instill more transparency into their dealings, it seems one…
Quantity Vs. Quality
There are so many fast food restaurants nowadays that I imagine the competition for the American gullet is quite competitive. For some reason, however, I have noticed an awful lot…
Dental Case
Bad teeth run in my family - I'll just come right out and say it. I have to, anyway, as it is the basis for this column. After years of…
Easier Than a Richmond Tobacco Party
I try not to get too political when I write my occasional column here at The Owl. I do enough yelling at nazis and pea-brained right wing clowns on Youtube,…
Thirsty Work
This week the British Government, led by 'Old Scrotum-Face' Gordon Brown, announced one of the most offensive and ill thought out so called 'policies' of his rocky and tenuous career…
Hooray for Insurance
We have all grown accustom to getting the hideous things in the mail, but whenever I am home and I hear the footsteps on my front porch and the metal…
Education in Diplomacy
About eleven years ago I decided to return to school to work on fulfilling some required classes that I just gave up on. I left art school in 1984 with…
Two For One: The Hensel Twins
When I saw this on YouTube™, my first reaction was shock and amazement, but ever since I have been left with questions that only mount. Abbey and Brittany Hensel are…