Chrisco Spins

Barack Obama is running for president with a message of unity. But not everyone is getting the message. Jose Ortiz is a Clinton supporter. His brother-in-law, Sean Shurelds, backs Obama. A political argument got heated between the two and ended with Ortiz stabbing Shurelds inside their family home. Shurelds is in hospital and Ortiz is in jail tonight. And to think, usually we can’t even get people to vote.

I heard a name for something today that made me smile. It’s a phenomenon I’ve known about forever, but no one had ever suggested a name for it. It’s called Ruthless Default and the name is absolutely perfect.

Ruthless Default is a term used by financial institutions when a borrower decides they are not going to pay another dime on their debt. I’ve known people to drive cars for years before the repo man caught up to them. I’ve known people to move out of an apartment in the dead of night to avoid overdue rent payments. And now I’ve got a name for it.

Ruthless Default is the last rebellion of the chronically indebted. And I love it. (more…)

My son started school a couple years ago. He entered a whole new world where mom and dad aren’t always there. I entered a whole new world where grown-up women say the craziest things.

I remember being a kid. Granted it’s getting a little fuzzier every day, but I remember. When I was growing up, parents didn’t sit at the playground while kids played. But thanks to either the incredible rise in child molestation or the incredible rise in the media’s coverage of child molestation (you be the judge), no parent would dream of letting their kids out of sight… ever.

So I stand around the edge of the playground with the other sane parents. We could talk about the parents who follow their kids right down the slides, but that’s a little crazy even with molesters lurking behind every tree. What I never realized as a kid, teen, or even as a 20-something was that seemingly normal adult women are severely fucked up. (more…)