With apologies to Anheuser-Busch's Budweiser beer, today's fashion shows are cluttered with beautiful Clydesdales. Seemingly gorgeous models strut their six foot, 100-pound frames down a runway and look like sultry horses.  more »

Cure gambling? Take a pill. Reduce your weight? Take a pill? Get more energy? Take a pill. I say, 'Take a placebo.'  more »

Freedom of speech is one thing. Freedom to terrorize is something else. If you can call me ugly am I free to threaten to kill you? Or fire you? A cartoon in a Danish newspaper draws the conflict strings closer together.  more »

American Idol started a new season in January and quickly became the top rated TV show. Again. As it was last year, this year's early season displays few of the potential Idols and most of the Idol wannabes. 15 minutes of fame is reduced to 60 seconds, but it's on national TV.  more »

An iPod owner has filed a federal lawsuit against Apple, claiming the device cause hearing loss in people who use it. What's next? Let's sue Oprah because she promoted a fiction book as non-fiction?  more »

What's the difference between the Sopranos and the phone company? Nothing that I can tell. Oh, wait. We get phone service and internet access from the phone company. They can hurt you. The Sopranos cannot.  more »

Slate has an interesting article on Michael Jackson, asking, "How 'Black' is Michael Jackson?" Good question. What do you mean by "black?" Race? As in negro? There's an easy answer to that.  more »

News from Business 2.0 says Apple may ditch the diminutive iPod shuffle in favor of a one gigabyte iPod nano. Is that such a good idea? Where's the Micro, Pequeno, and Invisa when we need them?  more »

One of these days I'll learn to buy stocks when they're low and sell them when they're high, instead of the other way around. You could make more money in the market by doing the opposite of what I do.  more »

I've been wanting to do this for about five years. A personal web site. A place where I can log in from anywhere, jot down a few notes, let everyone in the world read my prose and purpose and patter.  more »

Tera Talks is about Tera Jean Patricks. Me. It's a daily (sort of) journal about my thoughts on a variety of topics, concerns, issues. There won't be much on my life as history; childhood, adulthood, family, friends, career, though there's probably more than you need to know.  more »

Frequently asked questions being what they are, the most frequently asked is, "Is that your real name?" Of course not. It's...  more »