Homo sarcasmus - a new species of blog from Heath L. Buckmaster

Posts under ‘Awareness’

Have some class on Independence Day

The whole purpose of Independence Day is to celebrate that long, long ago we decided that being Brits wasn’t our thing any more.
Whether I agree with that decision or not is mostly irrelevant since we can’t change it now - but the point is that the country said, “to heck with rules and regulations made [...]

This is what Pride has become…

Over the weekend Sacramento celebrated its annual Gay Pride. But you wouldn’t know it from reading the news. KCRA devoted exactly 40 words to the story, and here I present them to you with a link to the original article (which contains exactly the same number of words):
Gay communities and those who support them are [...]

My June Crush

I realize I’m a day early, but who cares.
Today I announce my June crush.
Isabella Rossellini, the most beautiful woman in the world. And here’s why…
Doesn’t get much better than that does it? You can watch the entire series on Sundance.

I can hear you smiling!

Do you have those moments when you’re talking to someone and you’re perhaps sharing a humorous story or a touching moment and you can almost hear them smiling?
Yeah, I don’t either. You can’t hear a smile.
Or can you?
gizzen - to grin audibly. (C. Clough Robinson’s Glossary of Words Pertaining to the Dialect of Mid-Yorkshire, 1876)
The [...]