Funny Stories: The Gas Mask
When I was around junior high age, I developed a pretty nasty allergy to grass. I probably still have it to some degree, but if
When I was around junior high age, I developed a pretty nasty allergy to grass. I probably still have it to some degree, but if
In honor of all the unsung heroes working at fast-food joints around the country, providing us with quick and cheap food options, I’ll relate a
My Aunt Kay really hated Frank Sinatra. I knew this, but I never knew why. I had always assumed it was because he was supposed
When my son was in junior high, he had a girl who liked him. While I don’t know all the details, apparently something went wrong
I was probably 13-14 or so, and I was playing around with the kids on our street. I found a length of metal pipe around 3
15 The Prospects of International Order One of the lessons we should have learned is that economic planning is bound to be harmful, not only
So my oldest son had a Japanese girlfriend for a while, whose name was Ai, pronounced like the letter i. She was a fashion student at
Wherein I embarrass my coworkers to my own amusement. So when I was working in construction, we were over in the Cheviot Hills area of
14 Material Conditions and Ideal Ends Hayek mentions that his generation likes to flatter itself that it give less weight to economic matters than previous
I was a youth leader at a little Baptist church up in Monrovia. After about 5 years I moved on. But while I was serving
“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.“
This website was formerly “the TL;DR place” on tumblr. But I occasionally posted things that I wanted others to see, and they were unable to access the content without tumblr accounts. I called the blog the TL;DR place because the writing I do here is essentially a place for me to process through my thoughts. Most of my friend group isn’t all that interested in the same things, so I write rather than talk through it.
The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.