Hey, gun owners! The NRA has terrified you and filled its coffers by putting the thought of the Federal government compiling a database/registry of all you shooters into your heads. “Why, if the gubmint had that they could take all our guns,” screeches Wayne LaPierre. But. Unbeknownst to you NRA members, your organization has built …
Now this is a water slide! A picture of this has been making the rounds on Google-Plus so I thought I’d try to find a video of someone actually riding it. It’s on the northeastern coast of Brazil in a town called Fortaleza.
During the 1:42 this segment lasts, neither Bob Schieffer nor John Miller asked the obvious question: What right did the British security agency have to detain Glenn Greenwald’s partner David Miranda at Heathrow? Is every person in the world now fair game for various national security agencies at any time? Of course, neither Schieffer nor …
Three loads yesterday, one today. We’re clean, we’re clean!
I have new and desperately needed shoes! The old ones were cracking at the toes and at the base of the big toe. Nike Air Force 1s. I’ve never owned Nike shoes until today. Since I was there I went across the street and found (hooray!) the burrito distributor had delivered to the commissary between …
I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned that Slacktivist (Fred Clark) has been re-reading and critiquing the Left Behind books for several years. I’ve never read them, so Fred’s synopses have been my only exposure to them. Fred often shows disdain for the “writing” done by LaHaye and Jenkins, and I can understand why. Here’s a …
I went to the Commissary today to pick up dog food and a few other things, but most importantly to replenish my stock of breakfast burritos. I tooled up and down the aisles, dropping stuff into the cart as I came across items on my list, and finally got to the frozen goods aisle. ACK! …
The Egyptian Army has already gotten half of its country angry at the United States for supporting it in the old Mubarak days. Now it’s opened fire on its fellow citizens who happen to be pro-democracy supporters, so they’re even angrier with us. And the remainder of Egypt’s citizens thought because we weren’t demanding that …
On Sunday’s Weekend All Things Considered the musical segment at the end of the show was all about Italian contemporary music. It was fascinating to hear folk music from a country whose only music I know is opera. Here is the full version of the final song in the segment: “La Follia Italiana” by Paolo …
Not to say the oil industry is indifferent to the plight of its neighbors, but if their wells run dry due to the incredible amounts of water required to extract oil by fracking, “Too bad, so sad. We’re getting ours, though.” A few years ago, it seemed like a place on the way out. Now …