On To Plan B
My wife recently read a book outlining a decent spiritual/mental model to help one to deal with the ins and outs of daily life. The model goes as follows: Either the night prior to or the morning of a day…
Category Observations
Paging Senator McCarthy, Senator Joe McCarthy To The White Courtesy Phone.
It’s fortunate that Congress disbanded HUAC, else I might have had to place a call this evening. You see, I witnessed my family watching two former European Axis powers competing against each other. Playing metric footballsoccer. On the Fourth of…
Gettin’ In That Patriotic Spirit
To my mind, it just doesn’t get any better than Ray Charles singing “America the Beautiful”. So get your official 4th of July celebrations off on the right foot and give Sir Charles a listen.
Signs Of The Times
Anger management issues aside, I think that the true ramifications of the Times’ (LA & NY) release of information on a top secret financial surveillance program are starting to become clear. The Times’ revelations have effectively killed the SWIFT program,…
Thank Heavens For That!
I get all manner of annoying spam comments that pile up in my Akismet queue and I normally take a quick fly-by of the queue each morning to make sure that no legit comments were accidentally flagged. This morning, I…
Right. What’s A Cubit?
Okay, this flooding thing is getting on my nerves. It was raining so hard two nights ago that our house was almost shaking from the sheer force of the water – darn storm woke me up at 3:30am, then the…
Hey, I Can Keep Perfect Time!
“White men can’t clap.” -Senator Barrack Obama (D-IL) [paraphrase] Wheee, ain’t reverse racism and generalizations fun? Color this cracker amused.
Just When You Thought They Couldn’t Get ANY Dumber
…A Senator goes and proposes a pimp tax. I’m pretty certain that it’s official now: Congress has jumped the shark.
From The Department Of Particularly Bad Ideas
I know, rather than educating people on proper firearm safety and coming to the realization that some people are morons no matter how many times you tell them not to look down the barrel of a loaded gun, let’s password…
Brain. Hurts.
We’ve been over this a million times: some people have way, way too much time on their hands. As further evidence, I present a 2D representation of a 3D representation of a 4D house, constructed entirely using the tools provided…
