Airports
Originally posted on Two on a Rant:
“Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.” –Henny Youngman I love to fly, to look out at the…
Category Archive: Rant
Censorship
I read that two WordPress blogs were taken down because someone in Pakistan complained. https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/05/17/wordpress-com-blacklists-blogs-critical-of-islam/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_content=links&utm_campaign=20190517 EXCERPT: “A few weeks ago Twitter Legal notified us that this tweet violated Pakistan’s (sharia) laws. @WordPress… Continue reading
Unsolicited
During this week, unable to talk due to laryngitis, I have had so many calls from various “unknown” numbers — or names I don’t recognize — that I’ve wanted to pull the… Continue reading
Just another way to make money.
I received a call around 9:30am For most people, that’s a ho-hum moment. For someone who has been coughing all night and FINALLY got to sleep, it’s more like road rage. True, I… Continue reading
And the Incompetence continues
The continuing saga of, “Not my monkeys, not my circus, so how did I end up in their cage?” If this is the future of on-line customer service, I’m doing all my shopping… Continue reading
This is what incompetence looks like
How to “owe’ $4.74 on a purchase that you never received: An email message from Comenity Capital Bank regarding my Haband Credit Card account said I owed over $15.00 and my payment was… Continue reading
Rant : Tired
Ever get to that point in life…where you’re just flat-out, been-through-ther-ringer…TIRED? Tired of cats drinking water out of your cup while you type on a substandard keyboard that makes your fingers cramp? Tired… Continue reading
Intermission
Did you know that epic movies — the ones made decades ago — had an intermission? When “Titanic” circulated the theaters, my daughter and I sat through the entire thing. At the end… Continue reading
Words to eat by
I tell people, “Never give up.” I’d eat those words, but I’m just too stubborn to give up. Actually, I’d eat just about anything edible right now, if I could. My definition… Continue reading
The occasional poet’s obligatory poetry rant
The occasional poet has taken a hiatus for a few months. Between NaNoWriMo and my day job I concentrated on 50,000 words in the month of November. For the past 4 months, my… Continue reading