Michael Rentiers

Do the toilets really flush backward down under? So I’m sitting on quite a bumpy flight from Washington to Los Angeles for the first leg of a little vacation trip to Australia. I’m really pretty excited about this one and I am going to do my best to post pictures and things as we go [...]

Old Media chokes on own narrative I used to believe that the mainstream media (termed “old media” from here on) was losing business and shuttering doors largely because they were giving their content away for free on the Internets.  And that may account for some, albeit less than I would have thought previously, of their [...]

You can keep the change The title is a bit of an unfortunate one.  The happenings in Columbia shouldn’t be about Sanford’s fate, it should be about our fate.  That about sums up my thoughts on the matter, but since this is a blog post and not a tweet-I will continue. I join the chorus [...]

We’ll all need some form of health care after this is over As long you aren’t stranded on a deserted island somewhere, (and let’s face it you wouldn’t be one of my tens of readers if you were) you have heard quite a good bit of the arguments surrounding the proposed health care “reform” debate.  [...]

I swear I’ve been in my 30′s for 10 years now. His Birthday is not for another week, but since we are celebrating today, I thought I would put up a little post. We’re down in the Holy City of Charleston today to help celebrate the 30th Birthday of one of my closest friends.  We [...]