Happy PG-13 Halloween!!

Hey, let’s break up a family – The Claudia Núñez story

I received a gift last night. Along with some other bloggers, I got to meet Claudia Núñez, her husband and her two children. I got to put an actual face with the illegal immigration issue. But, this is really not about me. But one thing became crystal clear to me last [...]

Stormy Monday – Anniversary of Duane Allman’s death

Thirty-five years ago today, Duane Allman (Allman Joys, Allman Brothers) died in a motorcycle wreck. It’s hard to really hear the song “Layla” anymore because it’s been played 6 jillion times on classic radio, but if you listen to it closely and forget that you’ve heard it before, you’ll be hearing one of the [...]

Any race cards in this deck?

According to some bloggers and pundits, racial discrimination is an historical artifact. Not surprisingly, these bloggers and pundits are usually middle-class white guys. Perhaps they can explain why black people pay a higher rate of interest for houses than white people, even though they have the same or similar credit ratings.
The point here [...]

I’ve gotta be me, or at least one out of 147…

HowManyOfMe.com

There are:
147
people with my name
in the U.S.A.

How many have your name?

I glommed this totally from Thomas McKenzie’s cool blog.

We wanna dance with your dates, or, Titan Football: where knowledge is good…

Pacman Jones aka Mister Blutarsky is at it again. The Titans best cover guy can’t quite seem to stay out of the clubs and out of trouble. According to THIS, Pac was hanging out at Club Mystic sometime around 1:00 AM last night and was trying to dance with the friend of someone [...]

How to make a LOT of money, or, a picture is worth 1,000 regrets

I was driving around running errands (the chief errand being to ingest some Mothership BBQ) when I heard a commercial for some balm that supposedly removes tattoos painlessly over several days. I have no idea if the stuff works (I’m tatless, so I can’t be a test case), but I was thinking, based on the [...]

To my seeeester, and the good folks of St. Louis..

along with the Republicans in Saint Louie Louis, congratulations on a big World Series win. Ya gotta love it when the little guy, i.e. David Eckstein, is the MVP. Eckstein is an unlikely hero, but the kind of guy you want on your team. One of my favorite stories about Eckstein is [...]

Stick it in yer ear, Edna St. Vincent Millay, or, notes from a hockey game

Last night I’m watching a GREAT hockey game. The Preds are playing the team that knocked them out of the play-offs last year – The San Jose Sharks. The Sharks are all about 6’9” and 280 and can somehow skate like Dick Button, without all the mincing.
There are four minutes left in the [...]

What’s the difference between Rush Limbaugh and the Hindenberg?

One is a large Nazi gasbag and the other is just a blimp. An old joke, I realize, but one I felt worth resurrecting thanks to Limbaugh’s attack on Michael J. Fox. If you haven’t seen the clip, go HERE.
Limbaugh’s attack is so far beneath contempt that you can’t make out the [...]

For the love of God, Tim, SHUT UP, or, Nothing a little duct tape couldn’t fix

Is there anybody out there who can throttle Tim McCarver (one of the Fox announcers for the World Series)? Apparently I’m not alone. As some of you may know, I love the baseball, and I’ve watched nearly every pitch of the W. Series. I’ve also had to turn down the volume to avoid [...]

Voters with a blue dress, blue dress, voters with a blue dress on..

I saw this ‘comment’ on a bumper sticker yesterday….I have to say I kinda, uh, REALLY got a good laugh.

Living the Playboy life, or, put a cork in it…

I was thinking about running for political office in the future, but then I remembered that when I was a teenager I used to hide Playboy magazines under my mattress. The hiding places were so well thought out that my mother only took about 15 seconds to discover my cache when she ventured into [...]

OH…there IS a new course, or, Bush burning old rhetoric

Tony Snow, the Prez’s Press Potentate, has announced that the President will no longer use the term ‘Stay the Course’ in conjunction with the war in Iraq. Slightly different than the Prez maintaining that his administration was NEVER about stay the course.
I guess the old test marketing department kinda decided that ’stay the course’ [...]

This one goes out to Newscoma

My friend and I wish you the best, and want you to know we are thinking about YOU.

I guess we were on a different course, or, has the world just gone insane

From the Stephanopoulos interview with President Bush broadcast October 22nd:
STEPHANOPOULOS: …..James Baker says he’s looking for something between –
BUSH: Cut and run –
STEPHANOPOULOS: — cut and run and stay the course.
BUSH: Listen, we’ve never been stay the course, George.
uhmmmmmmmm…
A free Iraq will mean a peaceful world. And it’s very important for us to stay [...]

No brother left behind, or, Nepotism! Boom

According to THIS LA Times story, a goodly amount of the ‘No Child Left Behind Funds’ are being spent on products from a company called ‘Ignite! Learning’. In what has to be an INCREDIBLE coincidence, ‘Ignite! Learning’ (hey Tim W., does that look funny to you) is owned by someone named Neil Bush who [...]

Papa don’t preach, or, Don’t Cry for me Malawi

In fun celebrity news for a Sunday it turns out that the kid Madonna is kidnapping borrowing attempting to adopt just MAY be not up for the taking…Malawian Father of the Year is now claiming that he had no idea that Madonna wanted to ADOPT his son…apparently he thought it was just some kind of [...]

Deep in the Sherwood campaign forest, or, Sir, I’ve never choked my wife

Did anybody notice this past week that President Bush campaigned with a certain Congressman Sherwood in Pennsylvania? I realize that in my state of being intensively cared for and non-ritualistic blood-letting, people may have been talking about this like crazy and I just missed it..
Normally, this would not be much of a story. [...]

The coffee gods must be crazy

Now they’re playing with us…I’m getting the feeling that we, the citizens of Salemtown/Germantown are Charlie Brown, a coffee house is the football, and the powers that be that control where coffee houses are located are Lucy..witness

Just a few days ago, this sign looked like THIS.
sigh….