“There is one possibility. Highly experimental,” Dr. Maureen Wiest told her dying patient. “A technology that’s never been tested on humans.”
“I’m all ears.” Actually, he was hungry. Terminal cancer was no match for Vernon Ames’s appetite. He pulled a Three Musketeers bar from his pocket and began to unwrap it. “But you said it was inoperable. Hell, I don’t really give a s###, let it kill me.”
I am tired of this country catering to the idiots. Really, it’s not my job or the government’s job to ensure that lazy and ignorant people function in this society. We all have an individual responsibility to learn and understand our surroundings, and it’s our own darn fault if we fail to follow this one basic guideline of human existence.
There was a time—really not so long ago, in the grade scheme of things—when default working hours were 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Eight hours. Included in these eight hours were a break or two, most notably a lunch break which would either be a half hour or hour in the middle of the eight hour day.
Millions of displaced, possibly illegally hoarded commas were found on Tuesday during a routine inspection of the Associated Press building in New York, Off on a Tangent has learned. The commas were stored dangerously in cardboard boxes in a locked, underground room. This surprise find exposes the AP to increased scrutiny in the midst of a worldwide comma shortage.
Today, California voters made history. There is a previously little-known caveat of California politics called the recall, which allows the citizens of the state to effectively undo an election. This process is such a strange and potentially destabilizing thing that—while eighteen states and the District of Columbia have recall procedures—it has only been used once in United States history at the governor level before today (Governor Lynn Frazier was recalled in North Dakota in 1921).
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.
