This Day In History
If one were to listen to the radio or turn on the television today, there’s a good chance that they would be informed that today, February 3, is, in Don…
Fast Food and Communications
Just like any other part of the country, Iowa is peppered with endless fast food restaurants competing for your appetite, as well as your wallet. When one sees the commercials…
Brokeback Brett?
Brett Favre, rough and tumble quarterback of the Green Bay Packers and New York Jets and spokesman for classy Wrangler Jeans, is having his manhood questioned in some corners. It…
PETA Made Me Want to Eat Fish
So PETA has launched a new campaign to stop people from fishing and eating fish. Their plan is to rename fish "Sea Kittens" and yes, it is for real. This…
Chocolate Season
There is an unwritten, cyclical occurrence that takes place every year that I have coined the term "Chocolate Season" for. Starting somewhere around October 31st when tiny, plastic,anemic approximations of…
Jeff Bridges Eats Oscar
Jeff Bridges will be receiving an honorary Oscar for Best Cumulative Eating at the next Academy Awards ceremony. The Oscar will be presented by friend and fellow glutton, John Goodman.…
Phone Phun
I worked as a long distance operator for three years third shift. They paid you like 12 percent more than normal if you pulled the graveyard shift, and I figured…
Death & Taxes
In March of 2008, the war in Iraq will begin its sixth year. In that month we will be half way to matching the record, held currently by the war…
Addie the Misunderstood
In the words of the old British Music-Hall classic: "Hitler has only got one ball, The other is in The Albert hall, His Mother, the silly bugger, Cut it off…
Mr. Productivity
Before I became the success story that is Kipp Wieland, I once worked at a Holiday Inn here in Cedar Rapids (it has been demolished since). I had dropped out…