Archive for November, 2009

Thanks…a Lot!

I’ve always loved Thanksgiving, (finally, a national poll in which I would fall within the overwhelming majority).  For me, there’s the vivid memory of family gathered at my Auntie Annie’s house for the feast, the football games and all of the other trappings of the day.  When I moved to…

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Bureaucratic Incompetence 101

You know what burns my ass, even more than a three-foot, scented Yankee candle?  It’s all the mindless conservative posturing about evil government this and too much government that.  Well, move over Rush!  If the present bureaucracy-in-charge continues to shoot itself in its collective foot, (even using a politically correct…

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Hey, There’s Water on the Moon!

A few weeks ago, NASA rocketed a bomb into a crater on the lunar surface followed by a second payload of data-gathering devices.  They were trying to determine if there was water on the Moon, and guess what?  They say there is.  So, I’m taking that information, (I long ago…

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Spin

’m not certain where the contemporary term ‘SPIN’ came from, but I’m going to decide, (for myself and anyone who wants to tag along), that some smart ass politico coined it late one night during a conversation that went something like this: “Damn it, Dick!  When this gets out you…

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Four More Questions

Yeah, I know it’s not Passover, but… Q’s 1.  Is it just me, (again), or could the drug manufacturers who were given the contracts to supply the H1N1 vaccine be screwing up on purpose to underline just how inept the government is in trying to run health care?  Add to that paranoid…

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