Month: February 2010
TL The Tour Guide
The in-laws are out from Wisconsin to visit. Yesterday The Wife and I drove down to the airport to pick them up in the late morning. The Wife suggested we take them to Philippe for lunch, which seemed like a… Continue Reading
No Longer The Outrage Of The Week
To Nick Gillespie’s three points, I would add a few more: Do you really have any doubt that in the 2008 elections, big corporations didn’t figure out a way to funnel big money to both Presidential candidates? What were 527… Continue Reading
That Figures
Of course I’d be linked up to several popular blogs on a post that contained a misspelling in its title. Oh, I fixed it now, but I need to remember the “i before e except after c” rule does not… Continue Reading
Wielding The Power Of Life And Death
Plenty of people, myself included, got upset when the Bush Administration reserved for itself the right to unilaterally engage in a warrantless wiretap. I thought it was an affront to the Constitution that the President, acting on his authority alone,… Continue Reading
Well Enough Again
A five-day course of antibiotics, a shot in the ass (which still hurts when I lay down on it just right), inhalable steroids for my lungs, and some powerful cough syrup to take at night has mended me nicely. I’m… Continue Reading
Super Bowl Ads
At the Super Bowl party last night, I was amazed at the interest in the advertisements by the other guests. Maybe half the people there even cared about the game at all. The cleverest ad, I thought, was the “Green… Continue Reading
Best Bad Guys In Science Fiction
I had a brief but potentially interesting discussion with a fellow Super Bowl partier last night, a guy who is more than a little bit of a leftist. HIM: “The Colts, man, they’re really good but have no personality. They’re… Continue Reading
Sarah Palin And The Hand Jive
Holy crap, it’s been three days and people are still blogging about Sarah Palin writing notes to herself on her hand while speaking at the Tea Party convention in Nashville on Friday. Seriously. How is that different than if she… Continue Reading
Pneumonia Asthmatic Bronchitis
After coughing and vomiting fits drove me off the bench while serving as a pro tem judge yesterday, and then literally kept me awake all night, I’m finally forced to concede that I don’t just have some minor crud. I… Continue Reading