Get out there and vote the right way, people!
Chris Pine as Leonard the Co-worker gives you several good reasons why you should vote Republicans out of office wherever you can:
Archive of entries posted on November 2016
Birthday desserts
We went to the local Mexican restaurant for a birthday lunch today, combining my sister’s day (October 30) with my own (November 4). After the usual tacos, enchiladas, burritos, ensaladas and chimichangas, the restaurant gave my sister and me each a free birthday dessert. First, Flan for my sister. Then, Sopapilla for me. Finally, a …
Kindle Test
Before I went to the reunion in Northern Virginia I bought a Kindle Fire HD 6, which has a 6-inch display screen. I thought that would be big enough to read comfortably while on airplanes. It turns out I read all of Simon Winchester’s “A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the …
Another one of these things
Yep. That’s my age today. I don’t feel a day over 56, though. I’ve been on some of the remaining parts of that road in Arizona and in California.
What’s the search term for this?
If you need a new one of these things because the old one doesn’t fit your new glasses, but you didn’t buy the old one, what term would you use to search for it? I tried about four different phrases before I came up with an image sufficiently like it that I could get the …
Vote these useless people out!
Headline: If GOP Holds House, Clinton Investigations To Begin On Day One Jason Chaffetz, of the House Oversight Committee: It’s a target-rich environment. Even before we get to Day One, we’ve got two years’ worth of material already lined up. She has four years of history at the State Department, and it ain’t good. These …
Pipelines leak and even explode
A pipeline which runs from Texas northeast to NYC sprung a leak in September and disrupted the flow of 1.3 million barrels of gasoline per day to drivers in the Southeast and possibly even further up the seaboard. That wasn’t enough, though. Part of the thing has now exploded in Alabama, several miles from the …