Be The Change
I’ve logged about 700 miles of driving in the last three days and I’ve seen a lot of cars. Today I saw a license plate holder that read “Be the change you would like to see in the …
Making Light of Loss
For Shame! I’m so very angry at this president. Tonight is the last straw. We need to rise up as a nation, with torches and pitchforks, and drive this monster out of our land. Here’s why: …
The Central Lie in the Iraq War
CAPTION From a speech President Bush gave titled “Plan for Victory” to United States Naval Academy Annapolis, Maryland on November 30, 2005. “Yet the terrorists have made it clear …
Pulp Novels
Sitting in brown paper shopping bag, somewhere in the garage of my memory My mother was a constant reader. She still reads a lot—more than I do—but when I was a kid, she was a constant reader. She …
Tiny Tractor, Tiny Farm
Toys for Old Boys I went for a walk around my neighborhood yesterday and noticed a guy down the street was putting a bundle of sticks into a wagon. Well, it wasn’t really a wagon but …
The Sound of 40,000 Disappointments
The NLCS Game 2 bottom of the fifth was riveting. When Oswalt struck out Edmunds, you could hear the sound of 40,000 disappointments! The camera stayed on Oswalt’s face then as he trotted off …
“Like Eating Pictures of Food"
I was reading this website, where the writer explains in terms of computers and operating systems. It gets pretty technical, but I was understanding enough to follow it when I came to this sentence: …
Projected to Live to 85
Digg.com turned me onto to this mortality calculator, which gives you a projected life span based on several health- and lifestyle-related questions. My results were that low-end estimates say 75, …
The Repeated Headline: Bush Invokes Sept 11 to Defend Iraq War
I wish I had a nickel for every time I have heard this news story in the last year. I’m starting to think that our Dear Leader is a monomaniac. Before September 11, 2001, tax cuts were his …
Reviewing 2002
I just went back and corrected some of the code from my 2002 archives. It took me about three hours. I didn’t read all of the posts, but I read a few of them. It’s amazing to me that I …