Avoid this
If you fill a mug with Cream of Celery soup and put it down on a tilted tray, it may spill into your lap. Doing so makes a helluva mess. It also means you have to find a Plan B for lunch.
Archive of entries posted on September 2010
Elected Democrats, listen up!
Updated below John Scalzi “goes off” on the Democrats. But if the GOP do take the House, it won’t be because Americans actually prefer the current Republican platform, which can be summed up as “let’s forget 2008 ever happened,” but because the Democrats have been so woefully incompetent on so many levels. [snip] Where the …
Catching Fire, Book Two of The Hunger Games
I wrote about starting “The Hunger Games Trilogy” here. I read the first book and was impressed with the world-building and the heroine. I finished the second (Catching Fire) overnight and am now even more impressed, although the world author Suzanne Collins has built is unreservedly appalling. I’ve read an awful lot of dystopian novels …
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Franklin Adams’s poem, updated
With all due respect to Mr. Adams and his poem, Polyethylene Glycol Electrolyte are the saddest of all possible words. It’s the glop you have to drink before going in for a colonoscopy.
Is my TV wrong?
What is this? Donovan McNabb is wearing a Redskins uniform this year? It’s all the science fiction I read, surely. It’s displacement of some kind.
Boehner and the Lobbyists
From the NYT. The Boehner for Speaker campaign offers donors who give the maximum amount special perks, like “meetings with Leader Boehner and much much more.” But his lobbyist friends and former aides said these incentives did not mean too much, because they already had plenty of access to Mr. Boehner. They just now want …
Top ten cover songs
My friend Kuff dug into his iTunes library to find his Top Ten cover songs. He even went to the trouble of finding YouTube videos of them when possible. He does this kind of thing every Friday, and I’ve been taking up his challenge and leaving my lists in his comments each week. Here’s my …
Jones and the Book
While I’m very glad I live in a country where I and my fellow citizens are free to express ourselves in a myriad of ways including book burning, I do wish my fellow citizens would exercise good sense in their self-expression. I get the feeling that Mr. Jones down there in Gainesville is threatening to …
How did American incomes get so unequal?
So asks Tim Noah, in a scheduled two-week series of articles which began last Friday. 1915, he writes, . . . was when the richest 1 percent accounted for 18 percent of the nation’s income. Today, the richest 1 percent account for 24 percent of the nation’s income. What caused this to happen? Over the …
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Great moments in Newspaper Layout
In today’s paper, you have to read into the story about yesterday’s Navy – Maryland football game to learn the outcome. The headline doesn’t quite cover it. This is not the end result the paper’s layout designers had in mind.