by Shimbo A joke I often told on the early episodes of the Never Daunted Radio Network came from a night of generally unfunny amateur comedy at the D.C. Improv. During one set, a kid who split his time writing for the Washington Post made a joke about living in what, at the time, was considered by some to be… Read more →
by Shimbo More and more, it’s harder to tell real stories from those that might appear in the Onion; this one is no different. A 9-year-old girl gets to spend the formative years of her life in therapy after shooting a gun instructor in the head, killing him, while he was showing her how to shoot an Uzi, authorities said… Read more →
by Shimbo I love people. Except when people are busy being “people”. One of the natural by-products of the Internet Age is an increasingly solipsistic point of view; how could it be any different? So often we sit behind our computer monitors or our smartphones, and digest everything the internet has to offer, while filtering it through our own ideals. Sometimes… Read more →
by Ed Button For those of you who haven’t somehow been on the internet in the past two weeks or so, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a campaign that seeks to raise funding to fight amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. It’s a condition that affects voluntary muscle movement, and eventually leads to death. The “Challenge”, as it were, is… Read more →
by Shimbo 37 years. I’m trying to sit here and convince myself that’s still young, and I suppose it is, I mean someone 20 years old would look at me and laugh, probably as much as I laugh at someone 27 who thinks the end is near. Maybe the end is always near, and it’s important that we remember that… Read more →
