Oh dear. She’s getting comfortable, but this is going too far. From Events When I went to bed she was on that rug on the floor next to the bed. I got up in the night and when I came back into the bedroom I found her up on the bed. It was 2:30 am …
Internet, meet Abbey. Abbey, meet Internet. From Events Here’s a close-up which shows her spots and her all-black ears. From Events She’s a six-year-old rescue dog which I found online and went to see today. She’s so quiet and docile I couldn’t resist her, so she’s got a new home.
The White House offered up a snapshot of what would happen if there’s no deal and the sequester happens: Cuts to education: Up to 70,000 kids would be thrown off Head Start. 10,000 teachers’ jobs would be at risk. 7,200 special-ed teachers and aides might lose their funding. Cuts to small business: They’d lose up …
My head is spinning. For months the Republicans have been saying that the defense cuts featured in the sequester deal (~$500 billion, $55B of it this year) are dangerous and we’d all die as a result of our national security being so weakened. Iran and North Korea would take advantage of our cutbacks in defense …
Here’s a one-word summary of the reason the Post Office wants to discontinue Saturday delivery of first-class mail: Congress. “Oh come now,” you say? Consider: Congress has required that the USPS pre-fund its future health care benefit payments to retirees for the next 75 years, a burden no other entity, private or public, has to …
Today is National Pancake Day, so that’s what’s on for dinner this evening. I see that this “holiday” is one of those announced by a corporate entity with an axe to grind (or pancake to flip), similar to all those that seem to have been invented by Hallmark, but that’s okay. Break out the Bisquick …
Due to my attendance at a buddy’s Super Bowl soirée yesterday I did no laundry. I have rectified that today. We’re clean, we’re clean! I also found time to finish reading Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance, which I’d started on Saturday evening. How’s that for an exciting Monday?
Well, that turned out to be a much more exciting game than most viewers thought it would be after the first half and the first play of the second. The Ravens jumped out to a 28 – 6 lead just a minute into the 3rd quarter, but then the stadium lights went out for 34 …
This makes absolutely perfect sense. Let’s regulate guns instead of abortion. 24 hr waiting periods before purchase, parental consent, mandatory viewing of gunshot wound videos — Steph Herold (@StephHerold) February 2, 2013 via Steve M. at No More Mr. Nice Blog.
Arrived in today’s mail: David Weber’s A Rising Thunder. Notified that inter-library loan copy has arrived at my local branch: Lois McMaster Bujold’s Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance. Which to pick up first?