Category Archives: Bongos

Individual right, right on

The Supreme Court of the United States interprets the Second Amendment as protecting the individual’s right to own a gun. Some limitations apply. Offer not valid outside of United States.
Washington, D.C. residents: you may now lock and load in the privacy of your homes.

Farm Bill debate thread

Is anyone in favor of the Farm Bill’s sustained subsidy of profitable agricultural businesses or is this a moot point among us?

Hotels are funny

When Zoe heard that I’d be in San Francisco on business for a couple of days she wanted to join me. I decided to stay over the weekend so we could spend time here together. My flights and weeknights are a company expense but the weekend stay comes out of my pocket.
Automattic rides in style. [...]

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 [...]