Author Archives: James Rising

I have never really had a run in with the police. I have had my share of what the troopers call moving violations. On one memorable occasion I was stopped for speeding on the interstate in town whose name ends … Continue reading →

Blog Post for Monday 3/28/11 – 19 degrees at 6:15 am OK, it’s getting colder? A dimly remembered childhood memory. No I take that back. I remember it VERY well. Brattleboro Vermont. 12,045 in the 2000 census. This would have … Continue reading →

You have to love good old American ingenuity. When Osama and his band of demented henchmen drove airplanes into American Icons they changed our lives forever. But try as they might, the evil that exists in the world is not … Continue reading →

Blog Post for Sunday 3/27/11 – 24 degrees at 7:52 AM – Just cold-too cold. OK- so I love the Direct TV commercials featuring the mini-giraffe. I posted the first commercial on Facebook and squealed like a little girl about … Continue reading →

The march of progress is often at the expense of something. Buggy whips are a good example- When Henry Ford rolled the first model t off the assembly line if you owned a buggy whip factory you probably could see … Continue reading →

Blog Post for Saturday 3/26/11 – 20 degrees. Spring is one week old tomorrow. Aggregate Saturday I am on West coast time. The NASCAR boys and girls are racing in California so my schedule more or less conforms to PST. … Continue reading →

The conspiracy theories are all true. Cars that run on water. Magic pills that cure disease. Diets that let you eat all you want of everything and lose weight. Area 51 is crawling with aliens. The pyramids were built by … Continue reading →

Blog Post for Friday 3/2/11 – 20 degrees at 6:11 am – kitchen heater on. As part of the class I am teaching, “Computers in Mass Media” we have a discussion every year about shorthand acronyms used in texting and … Continue reading →

You can be arrested for doing it in a public place. You will get dirty looks for doing it without buying something. And you will get turned down more often than a leper in a nudist colony. Sometimes just taking … Continue reading →

Blog Post for Thursday 3/24/11 – 27 degrees – just a light nuisance dusting of snow. School work Thursday So the assignment is to write an editorial making an assertion about the issue of ending the use of the R-word … Continue reading →