Remember the cartoon images of anarchists? The guy in the trench coat with the cannonball-shaped bomb and the lit fuse? After hearing somebody on CNN calling the terrorist who was caught on Christmas Day last year the “underpants bomber” I’m surprised some enterprising cartoonist hasn’t come up with an iconic image. I imagine Hanes and …
Back here I mentioned I’d found Meg Gardiner’s thrillers. The library was short two of the five books in her Evan Delaney series, so I asked that it acquire them. Then I forgot about it. Lo and behold, here we are ten weeks later and I got a notice in my e-mail that the books …
It’s always been true that small shareholders have very little influence over the companies whose stock they own, so I don’t think they’d be able to change Halliburton’s behavior and outlook. It’s a damned shame that’s true, because if ever a company needed to be reined in, it’s Cheney’s former outfit. On Thursday, a government …
Oh me oh my and a custard pie. Listen to these two sing and play this classic country song. I’d have tried to scrape together the ticket price to see these two together.
It must be a holdover from when I worked swing shifts, but I always get that “day out of school” feeling if I don’t get into the shower until after noon. Since I’ve been handing Mom chicken soup and tissues all morning, that’s what I’m looking forward to a little later. Meanwhile, I’ve been looking …
I’m thinking of migrating this blog from its Movable Type platform to the WordPress platform. I’m about six years and two major versions behind MT, and its comment spam blacklist plug-in is failing or has become inadequate. That blacklist was incorporated into MT’s software by version 4 if not before, but I never upgraded (on …
Every once in a while somebody says to me “Why did that political analysis article appear in Rolling Stone, of all places?” I have to tell them that politics has been covered in that magazine’s pages since the 1960s. Hunter Thompson’s gonzo journalism first appeared in RS, illustrated by Ralph Steadman. So now we come …
I went out to the mailbox this afternoon and found ten pieces of mail. One weekly newspaper, two mail-order catalogs (Christmas? Already?), and seven campaign brochures, of which two were local and the remainder national. Enough already!
I had my “get-acquainted” visit with the VA Health Care system today. It all went well, except. There’s a parking structure there with five floors, and it took me fifteen minutes of driving up and down before somebody pulled out and I managed to sneak into that spot before anybody else. So I was five …
Ack. Laundry day without even the redeeming feature of a baseball game to watch between folding. See, this is why I want seven-game series to GO to seven games.