Browsing Archive: November, 2009

Capturing my own narcissism

Posted by Bryan D on Monday, November 16, 2009,

I never realized something about myself till just today; what petty forms narcissism can come in. I was looking at my web page today and I noticed that I went straight to the web counter and all of a sudden it hit me how vane I am. Now I could argue that in the world of pettiness this is somewhat of a non-issue.

Though it wasn’t so much the bee-line to the end of the website that I noticed, but the other thoughts that started running through my head. Like, who’s visiting my site? W...

Property Seizures

Posted by Bryan D on Friday, November 13, 2009,

http://www.detnews.com/article/20091113/METRO/911130372/1409/METRO

I read a story today in The Detroit News by two staff writers (link to story above) about how the Wayne County Prosecutors office is seizing people’s property, and not charging them with a crime. Also law enforcement openly admits in some cases that the people did nothing remotely illegal. Yet they seized their vehicles anyway, at a cost of $900 the first time and $900 additional each subsequent time, plus towing and s...

Death Fascination

Posted by Bryan D on Monday, November 9, 2009,

I read a story this morning in The Oakland Press by two AP writers, about how the site of the Cleveland serial killers house has become a unofficial tourist location. It got me wondering as to what it is that makes seemingly normal people act goofy around death, especially grusome death. Now full disclousure, I too used to rubberneck at an accident scene. I though have grown over this morbid fascination and I remember when I lost it. It was the night before Christmas Eve, a couple of years ag...