Well, it’s Sunday, and it’s time to announce the winner of the caption contest, and for another Weekly Question of the Week*! (* title does not intend to suggest weekly appearance) First was the caption contest, which I probably ruined by telling the back story of Muschi and Mauschen – the cat and bear who […]

A couple of weeks ago the Romney campaign, admitting that things had been rocky, announced its intentions to revamp its campaign.  Sure enough, since then Romney’s campaign has been in the headlines nearly every day. Now, revealed for the first time here at The Byronic Man, we present the memo outlining the revised plan for […]

Elegance At Home, With Your Host: The Byronic Man!

First thing’s first: voting on the caption contest!  I was worried that I’d put up a sub-par photo for you, in terms of being caption-worthy.  I was also worried too many people would know the back-story.  But even if I did, the entries were awesome, thus establishing one of my goals: to be able to […]

A quick Friday story of why you just have to love the state of Oregon. Meet Governor John Kitzhaber.  Governor, everyone.  Everyone, the Governor.  Now, Kitzhaber is a doctor with serious moral issues with the death penalty, which is still legal in Oregon (it’s been outlawed twice and made legal twice). When he was governor […]

We’ve explored The Good. The Bad. Now it’s time to look at The Contentious: the top 5 sequels for inspiring shocked looks and cries of “What?!” when hearing someone else’s opinion about it. 5. Terminator 2: Judgment Day.  Why people hate it: The original Terminator was a water-tight science-fiction action movie.  The sequel throws out […]

Okay.  So.  Well.  The political conventions are over and, I’ll be honest, I was a little hurt that neither party made me their presidential candidate for the upcoming election.  I know the two main candidates have gotten a lot of hype and media attention, and I’ve decided that the problem is that I haven’t made […]

Well, the political conventions are over, and at last the great national question of who – who – will get the nominations for the two parties is settled.  Now we should take a break from all this serious political debate and complex rhetorical analysis of global issues and take time once again for a caption […]