Michael Hoag

Michael Hoag


  • September 10, 2011

    The Black Friday Effect

    Their eyes flashed with mindless rage under the glow of fluorescent lights as a store full of bargains on clothing and electronics lay before them.  Not content to wait until the opening of Walmart at 5 AM, the mob stormed the front doors, tramp...

  • August 23, 2011

    Lies, Compromise, and Reptiles

    The hills are filled with the stench of elections.  Voter drives, primaries, and political smears -- oh, how they tease my nostrils like a pan of warm sticky buns!  Months of black eyes and hurt feelings will culminate in the next installme...

  • August 7, 2011

    In Defense of Our Document

    Well, that's it.  Constitution's irrelevant.  Outdated.  Finished.  We've got Twitter, iPads, and Lady Gaga now.  We're more advanced and enlightened than the Framers could have imagined in the dandiest of drunken stupors....