Brian Gongol
- As Wally often tells Dilbert in the comic strip, I think I've found my new hero. (4.29.2001)
- Savings are the order of the day: Alan Greenspan says pay down the debt, Congress is thinking about raising IRA contribution limits, and an investment planner has gone to space. Hooray for fiscal sanity! The space tourist, by the way, says he doesn't expect "the kind of safety that you would expect in a commercial airline." Like the Cato Institute says, let him go, and let others do the same. (4.29.2001)
- I will resist the urge to comment on Macaulay Culkin's thoughts on Michael Jackson. (4.29.2001)
- Don't think you can be sent to jail for bad yardwork? Think again. Oh, and you can go for not wearing a seat belt, too. (4.29.2001)
- Just when you thought old Budweiser commercials and Backstreet Boys parodies were the only entertainment left on the Web, along came Kung Fu Stick Fighters. It's the last, best hope for the Internet. (4.23.2001)
- Answers galore to all your questions: What caused the tragic bombing in Kuwait, what Alan Greenspan is thinking (and how Milton Friedman thinks it's a crock -- even though I'd rather know Alison Deans' take on it anyway), who Watergate's Deep Throat was, how you're going to Paris 20 years from now, why Canada is pretty much like the U.S. anyway, and everything you needed to know about my graduation. (4.20.2001)
- Times are just great between the U.S. and China right now: we may be sending an aircraft carrier toward the South China Sea, while they're still blaming us for the whole incident -- and they have the backing of (gasp!) a newspaper in Tanzania. Someone needs to take a time-out. Or maybe Chinese President Jiang Zemin and President Bush ought to sit down and have a beer. Either way, brinksmanship is no way to go. The more we trade with China, the harder it is for the Communist Party to stay in power -- that's right: More trade means more freedom. As Neil Young sang, keep on rocking in the free world (though something tells me he might be a little more socialistic than is healthy). (4.16.2001)
- American men: Tired of being single? Move to Japan, where two-thirds of women ages 20-30 have never married. Might need to get to work, seeing as children are an economic investment. (4.11.2001)
- It appears that Gongol means "another time" in some African dialect. Go ahead. Look for yourself. If you're really into translations, there's a Morse Code translator on the Web. Translation has come a long way since a distress call (via Morse code) directed the Carpathia to the Titanic in 1912. In retrospect, the captain of the Carpathia looks like the kind of guy you'd want rescuing you, too. (4.11.2001)
- Time for educational reform: McDonald's is thinking of simplifying its menu. Meanwhile, there's a possible drought of Guinness in Ireland. Tragedies abound. (4.1.2001)