Monthly Archives: June 2013

Pie Are Round, Not Square

Posted on June 29, 2013 by squathole

Jules, this one’s for you. Today’s email brings a polite little note on behalf of an agency to which I offered my grant writing skills.   Seems they’re having trouble making a decision, and it will be a few more weeks … Continue reading →

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Fourth Time Was the Charm

Posted on June 28, 2013 by squathole

….. as Darwin nods. A drunken Houston man shot himself in the head Thursday morning as he played with a gun in the parking lot of a local business, police said. Witnesses claimed he was showing off the gun, a … Continue reading →

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Rent A Room

Posted on June 27, 2013 by squathole
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The Fat’s In the Fire

Posted on June 26, 2013 by squathole

It’s cruel to be kind, it’s hip to be square, and now it’s sick to be fat. The American Medical Association has officially recognized obesity as a disease. “Recognizing obesity as a disease will help change the way the medical … Continue reading →

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Waste Pros, Alright

Posted on June 24, 2013 by squathole

I write this last Friday, while AT&T was repairing damage to its cable where the sewer replacement team tunneled through, knocking whole neighborhoods off line and leaving us with no land-line service.  It’s all back to normal.  Whatever “normal” is. … Continue reading →

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Fail

Posted on June 22, 2013 by squathole

This is how columnist Joe (JCCigar@aol.com) Cardona begins his column on the Miami Hurled Opinion page today: As a student at Florida International University in the late 1980’s, in search of my identity, I attended a seminar that examined important … Continue reading →

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Infrastructural Catastrophe at Hollywood’s El Paso II

Posted on June 20, 2013 by squathole

Lookit that sombrero!  Was it an act of vandalism? Remember, before this place was converted to a Mexican eatery, it was a pizza place.  They simply repainted and Mexicanized the ghastly statuary that adorns the exterior.  That sombrero was an … Continue reading →

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Game of Thorns

Posted on June 19, 2013 by squathole

I am happy to report that I retain all appendages issued with my standard equipment at birth after using a chain saw for the fourth time.  For a ten-thumbed clodpate who inevitably breaks either every tool he handles or the … Continue reading →

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Stacked

Posted on June 17, 2013 by squathole

In the words of Maynard G. Krebs: Boom, Boom, Ka-Boom. The four 350-foot-tall candy cane-striped smokestacks that have towered over Port Everglades and spewed pollution over Fort Lauderdale for a half century will come down on July 16. Florida Power … Continue reading →

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A Mickey Mouse Solution

Posted on June 12, 2013 by squathole

We could call this Fucking Goofy, Part 2. The Disney Institute, a consulting and teaching firm housed within one of the world’s most successful companies, has turned its attention to Broward. The school district hired Disney late last year, and … Continue reading →

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