Uber and like companies are cheating: cheating you, their drivers and the public.

We all rely on memory to get along in life. Think of how much we actually rely on people forgetting.

by Ronald Bruce Meyer (aka Uptight, Late-Night, Stage Fright Ronald, the Duke of Doggerel) 9 December 2001*   Between the hours of daylight and the fully settled sun Comes a time that's not yet nightfall, when the day is not yet done. Yet the darkness isn't ready yet to hang the noose on night, For […]

Why Hillary Clinton will Lose to Donald Trump By Ronald Bruce Meyer 7/31/2016 Now the balloons have fallen and the delegates have voted. The DNC got what it wanted: Hillary Clinton, the first female candidate to head a major party ticket in a general election. Hillary has everything going for her: experience, connections, money. She […]

Was I too quick to call out racism? It was about 9:00 and I called the nearby Pizza Hut. The proprietor answered with something unintelligible before saying “Pizza Hut,” then asked if I wanted carryout or delivery. I said delivery—if I have reached the Pizza Hut across from the 7-Eleven (my local one). He replied, […]

Trump seems to be afraid of damn near everything: brown people, other religions, the government, liberals, homosexuals, women breast feeding...

It was on this date, October 26, 1973, that American comedian and creator of the prime-time Emmy-winning satire The Family Guy, Seth Woodbury MacFarlane was born in Kent, Connecticut. He is best known for writing, directing, producing and voicing the title character in the 2012 comedy Ted, starring Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis, as well […]

It was on this date, October 24, 1945, that “one of the strongest voices challenging the teaching of young earth creationism and intelligent design in schools” American physical anthropologist Eugenie Scott was born. Scott grew up in Wisconsin, earned her BS and MS from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and her PhD from the University of […]

I manage this house; I don’t own it. But my real estate property management experience has taught me to be protective of property belonging to my clients. And as an assisted living manager, I am protective of the residents within. So when I saw two smartly dressed strangers approach the door of the house as […]

I’m going to make a plea for calendar sanity. It will fall on deaf ears because of (a) tradition and (b) inertia. In other words, because of the lamest excuse known to humanity: “We’ve always done it that way!” But here goes. Why is the calendar for January one row longer than it needs to […]