My friend Josh posted this picture on his Facebook page a little bit ago. It’s the now-closed Blackhawk Saloon in Kanawha County. I always liked the guy who owned this place because he pretty much gave a hearty middle finger to the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department and its smoking regulations. So, some background: I’m not a [...]

(via Google Talk) Me: Ask him how he plans to run his iPad without clean burning carbon neutral American coal. Me: Oh, and f-ck you. Me: Tack that on for me. Me:

(An occasional series of posts in which I rant about various misadventures in customer service …) So … maybe I’m just naive, but I’m one of those, “If you call me to tell me I’ve earned something, it should actually be true,” kind of people. With that in mind, today’s Punch a Kitten Award goes [...]

So, in what I hope to be the penultimate chapter of this lengthy story with Samsung, I’m inching toward being able to watch television in my living room again. Today, someone from customer service actually called me. I was expecting, to be rather honest, another complete blow-off, but sure enough, this afternoon, I got a [...]

Oh, Samsung. You are so on my list. Yesterday, after referring to a run-in with PNC that made me “want to drink and punch a kitten in the face,” I made this picture in Photoshop. Later, I was telling my friend Michael I needed to save this picture to bring out for the posts I [...]

(exchristian.net) So, Sunday morning, I get up, and I check some news, sign into Facebook and I see a link my friend Chris has posted. It’s a link from NBC Washington, so, being that I live here,  I was interested. And then I was really, really annoyed. He’d posted a link to an article called [...]

This clip from the 1993 movie “Falling Down” is a really, really accurate representation of how I’m feeling lately. It’s been a series of events for the last six days or so that seem to compound. One on top of the other. Another day, another reason to rub my temples in frustration or scratch my [...]

I was looking for the original version of this commercial, but someone already made the version that’s perfect for how I feel about this spot. The first time I saw this commercial for Chase Sapphire (which is a credit card for people in a hell of a lot better of a financial position than I [...]

In my list of people who should just be sterilized, these people are at the top. Eighteen kids. Why stop there, right? Duggars Expecting Their 19th Child Jesus. You know, here’s a thought … how about not being selfish assholes and adopt? You want kids so bad, I’m sure there are thousands of abandoned children [...]

Dear Comcast, I’m done. Seriously. As I told my friends on Twitter, as long as you keep employing people with intelligence levels that rival the Styrofoam cup, I can’t have anything to do with you. I don’t get what I’ve done to you to deserve this. I always say please and thank you. I always [...]