Christmas decorations are (mostly) taken down and ready to be stored in the closet for another year. Plumber for clogged drain called. No word yet from the Humane Society about the puddytat, who has taken to sitting outside surrounded by our ixora bushes. She won’t sit still long enough for me to get the camera, …
I called the Humane Society to get our name put onto the registry for the chip the cat already has implanted, and the lady on the phone there said “that number’s registered with us.” In fact, it was implanted in 2008, which is funny, because the vet I took her to on Wednesday guesstimated her …
A now-deceased blogger and friend once called Senator Jeff Sessions an “evil little troll.” Since Mac was from Alabama and so is Sessions, I expect he knew more than I about the Senator’s abilities and was accurate in his description. The Senator has proven Mac right once again: now he’s threatening Jack Lew’s nomination to …
Oh boy. No one. Not one of the 37 players eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame got enough votes to get into it this year. Why? Well, because a whole lot of members of the Baseball Writers Association of America developed a case of morals. Too many of the potential inductees, you see, had …
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It’s gratifying to go see the doctors on a follow-up to your surgery two months ago and be told that it’s all looking good and you should come back in a couple of months. Oh, and see dentists, periodontists, or anyone else you want to about having things done to your mouth. Hooray for the …
As usual, I have no dog in the BCS Championship Game hunt. I’m tired of the Southeastern Conference’s high opinion of itself. Wait. Actually, I’m tired of every sportswriter’s high opinion of the SEC. Notre Dame has been just middlin’ for the past twenty years, so I have no rooting interest in it either. I …
I’m going to indulge in some schadenfreude here. For 30 years we’ve gotten accustomed to seeing columns in the media declaring “Democrats in Disarray,” sometimes with merit, other times with none. It does my heart good to see an article in the New York Times with this headline: “G.O.P. Begins Soul-Searching After Tax Vote” and …
The 113th Congress in general and the US House in particular has just shown how unserious it is about reducing expenses which contribute to the deficit. The House’s Republican majority has just written its rules for the upcoming session, and the rules package says the House won’t comply with fast-track procedures for the Independent Payment …
I went to see The Hobbit in a matinee show today. Supposedly the movie was to start at noon, but it didn’t actually start till about 12:20 PM; it had about six or eight previews first. Good thing, since I didn’t get into my seat until about 12:10 PM. I haven’t read the book in …
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I took the pussycat down to a vet today to get her scanned for a possible microchip, and she has one. The number on the chip is not registered in the principal database used in Hawai’i, and after a few phone calls the vet’s clerk learned that it was issued by something called HPA. She …