Category Archives: Adhesive

Zoe’s dog, Olive


Crime statistics a map, not a compass

This discussion has legs.
Personally, I think that gun ownership is stupid. Guns don’t stop crime and all it takes is looking at other countries with strict gun laws to see what the result is.
You not wish to own a gun. That’s fine. I am a gun owner. Calling gun ownership stupid is a personal affront [...]

Overheard

From an email signature:
“Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars.”
Notice I didn’t tag this as “humor”.

To a stranger

Hi. I’m Andy Skelton. Nobody special. I’d like to learn your name and get to know you and I’ll tell you why right now.
It’s often said that you don’t get a second chance to make a first impression. I just now realized that I have always arrogantly believed my intuition about people based on a [...]

One Year Without Things I’d Rather Not Like

I had an idea for a New Year’s Resolution. This idea came while I was eating one of my favorite Ben & Jerry’s ice creams, Phish Food. It had been half a year since my last B&J fix (a longer-than-customary interval for me, also being a product of Vermont) and I found it less satisfying [...]