I’ve not been happy with the national Boy Scouts of America over the past few years because of their anti-gay stance, but throwing these idiots out of the organization was the right thing to do. Pushing rocks off other rocks on private or public land is one thing; doing it in a protected park is …
No bulk white mushrooms. No packaged white mushrooms. Criminis, yes. Portobellos, yes. But I wanted white mushrooms to sauté and put on chicken! Safeway’s ordinarily pretty good, but there’s one big flaw with the place: they don’t do any of the buying locally. They buy local veg, but the authorizations are all done out of …
Shane Victorino of the Red Sox hit a grand slam home run in the 7th inning of Game Six of the ALCS tonight and the Red Sox bullpen made the 5 – 2 lead stand up. They’ll face the Cardinals in a rematch of three earlier World Series: 1946, 1967 and 2004. The Cards won …
I think I saw this joke on Twitter, but I can’t say for sure. PETA has suggested it too. “If the Redskins just changed their logo from a Native American to a potato, they wouldn’t even have to change their name.” Hmmm.
Hee! On Wednesday, McCain said Gohmert had “no intelligence” in response to Gohmert’s charge that McCain is an al-Qaeda supporter. “Sometimes comments like that are made out of malice, but if someone has no intelligence I don’t feel it as being a malicious statement,” McCain said on NBC News. “But yes, there’s polarization here, and …
Today in a committee hearing on Capitol Hill Terry Gowdy, a Republican from South Carolina, kept demanding to know why the Director of the National Parks Service shut down the national parks during a government shutdown. Jonathan Jarvis, the Director, explained that D.C. parks and memorials must close during a shutdown under the Anti-deficiency Act, …
I used to think John Boehner was a modern political version of George Babbitt, a successful climber prosperous but worried, wanting – passionately – to seize something more than motor cars and a house before it’s too late. Substitute Speakership for the cars and the house, then add “well-remembered” to it, and that’s what I …
Roger Simons has written a good column at Politico which ends with this joke aimed at Boehner and his fellow Republicans: Question: What is the difference between the people who shut down the government and the people who have been furloughed? Answer: The people who have been furloughed actually want to work. The whole thing …
Clothes, not money! Whaddya take me for? Also, there’s a baseball game on in which I have no particular rooting interest, so I won’t agonize over it the way I expect to tomorrow when the Dodgers play again.
A nice wealthy ($8M or so in his personal fortune) Congressman, Steve Pearce (R-NM), suggests that furloughed workers just go get short-term loans if they need cash for bills or living expenses. “If you are a furloughed government employee, we encourage you to reach out to your financial institution as soon as you worry you …