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Iraqi Leaders Call For Moment Of Violence During Ramadan
BAGHDAD—"In this time of fasting and contemplation, we should ponder the mutual rage, hatred, and bloodlust that we all share," said Sunni separatist Omar Muhammed Bakr.

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I’m SHOCKED, totally SHOCKED, or dog bites woman, or, what, gambling in Casablanca?

Hillary acknowledges she has thought about running for the presidency in 2008.
Normally, I support the Democratic candidate for the presidency. In this case, I truly believe that Hillary would perform the dance of the seven veils for Jerry Falwell and bring him the head of Al Gore, if she thought that would help her [...]

How do you spell D E S P E R A T E?, or, G.O.P. bin worried

I thought the 1964 ‘daisy‘ ad against Barry Goldwater was the ‘gold’ standard for low-down political advertising, but folks, we got a new contender.
“What is yet to come will be even greater,” the ad quotes bin Laden as saying, before concluding with the words: “These are the stakes. Vote November 7.”
All I can say is [...]

I don’t care, I just don’t care

Oxymoronically, my level of apathy regarding Sara Evans and her pending dee-vorce has reached new heights.
I don’t care in my car,
I don’t care in a bar,
I don’t care on the street,
I don’t care when I eat,
My dreams are evans free,
and will be til i’m seventy..
I don’t care when I’m in bed,
I don’t care what Brad [...]

All I ever got was milk and cookies, or, I get high with a little help from my MOM!!!

I’m guessing that NIT Guest host BusyMom probably hasn’t used THIS carrot to get her kids to do their homework. According to the story, a Pennsylvania mom rewards her 13 year old son with some of her chronic when he completes his homework. I’m also guessing that the kid has done [...]

Oh yeah, we might have an oopsie with this giant needle and you could almost die - sign here..

Doctors always pick a great time for you to sign these amazing waivers about what might happen during the procedure that is JUST ABOUT TO HAPPEN. Seriously, the other day, they were just ready to inject the joy juice in the IV to knock me out for an endoscopy (I have these stomach issues), [...]

More on unschooling - are you listening to yourself?

When it comes to rants as art form, Sarcastro and early Dennis Leary are on the short list to the hall of fame. Kat-Co has already highlighted today’s masterpiece.I’m thinking I may understand the genesis of the behaviour that leads to the stupid-ass driving Sarcastro eloquently details.
I wrote earlier about unschooling. A very nice [...]

Faces of Oktoberfest

Didn’t the Beatles write a song about this…something something on the hill, or, why are there two thousand four inch divots in that hill over there?

Courtesy of the fabulous Rex. L. Camino, this story kinda rolled out in front of me, and I couldn’t resist.
TENNAGER MARRIES HILL TO SAVE MOTHER FROM CURSE
What were the final words of the wedding ceremony - ‘you may now roll down your bride’?
The groom claims to have no remorse, but I bet he hasn’t met [...]

Holy mother of all that is caffeinated, please, oh, please let this be true!

This had better not be some java-teasin’ jive.

Light at the end of the tunnel, or, yummy yummy yummy, i’ve got a camera in my tummy

Time yet again for another scope,
thankgod, descending, is the rope,
hoping no signs are found,
as the camera goes down,
reading all ye who enter abandon hope

If only we armed our cats and kittens..

THIS never would have happened!
From MSNBC:
A school principal has resigned and could face felony firearm charges after he shot and killed two orphaned kittens on school property last month.

Maybe if they had been taught to scratch and claw…

That’s great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane…*

Titans AND Commodores win on the same weekend. Is it the end, is it Porklips Now?
Today, Vince Young was a little less young. And, there was another sign of the end times:Lamont Thompson actually covered some of the Redskins’ receivers.
Somewhere, Big Orange Michael is searching for Sarah Michelle Geller to succor him in his [...]

Warner parks Presidential ambition, or, Warner puts a governor on the presidential race..

I don’t know if the head-honchos that steer the Democratic party notice it or not, but people who become President these days are generally former governors, and often governors of southern states. Bush the First was an exception, and he did beat a governor, but considering that governor’s campaign (Michael DuCaCa), I think that Van [...]

Dore’s pound Dawgs, put Dawgs in their place, kennel the pooches, or, Man bites Dawg

I read that Georgia A.D. Vince Dooley (who must be 95 by now) was offended last week when some announcer or writer claimed that the Vols put the Dawgs in their place after whomping them badly in their football encounter. Ya gotta say now that the Dawgs are muling in the back of the doghouse [...]

Heutiger Tag ist Oktoberfest. Fall ist hier. Glauben Sie dem Summen!, or, For Councilman Crafton, It’s time for OKTOBERFEST..

Come on DOWN…

How to get to Chattanooga in 10 hours, or, would a THOUSAND gallons be dangerous?

Yesterday morning I was mentally tripping the light fantastic and ready to hit the road….to Chattanooga. I love Chattanooga. I really like the regional Health Dept. folks down there. I was planning to spend the better parts of two days working with some of my fellow Health Department peeps and hitting this great sushi joint [...]

Stepping up to Oktoberfest (Saturday October 14)

Tomorrow is a big day for our next-door neighborhood - Germantown. Oktoberfest is always a lot of fun including beer, brats, home tours*, beer, incredible reuben sandwiches, polka bands, jazz, beer and lotsa other good food and people watching (not to mention beer).
Salemtown Neighbors (the neighborhood association for us up in S’town) will have a [...]

I was born way too late, or, Unschooling, no fooling…

I was reading MSNBC.Com last night (at Portland Brew, and yes, we’re still NOT online in the hutchmo household), when THIS headline caught my eye:

A controversial chapter in education: unschooling
Seems the latest in education is taking home schooling to an entire new level (personally I think the level is the basement, but I’m no home [...]

Is it me, or is the service industry slowly descending into b-a-n-a-n-a land?

Maybe I’ve just been evil and the karma-kats are onto me. If you read this (thanks and watch out for YOUR karma), you know that I’ve been buffeted by the check-out lines at my ghetto Krogers and Walgreens and Wal-Mart, not to mention the aforementioned desk clerk at Motel 5 aka La Quinta in [...]