I know that the use of language in today’s mass media is geared toward a fifth-grade (or thereabouts) comprehension level. Surely, though, the folks we elect to serve in the highest offices should be at least a little smarter than a fifth grader. Perhaps we should have Jeff Foxworthy come and test the entire lot [...]
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It’s beginning to look a lot like pre-school…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged america, bush, congress, gay marriage, news, obama, politics, religion, wtf on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
America Can Do Better
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged megan fox, wtf on September 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What the hell is the deal with Megan Fox?
She’s currently on the cover of Rolling Stone, where she is being called “America’s Sexiest Bad Girl”.
I’m assuming that the look on her face there is an attempt at ’sultry’. I can only hope I’m not the only one who thinks she just looks like she’s squinting, [...]
Feeling Muldery
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aliens, antikythera mechanism, baghdad battery, cryptozoology, dropa stones, fox mulder, i want to believe, ica stones, lid of palenque, loch ness monster, mulder, nessie, phaistos disc, radioisotope dating, spirits, triceratops, weirdostat on September 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I want to believe.
Not necessarily in aliens or spirits or the Loch Ness Monster (at least not specifically) – but there is an awful lot of stuff out there that defies explanation. The planet’s weirdostat is set pretty high.
This image is one of the Ica Stones – a collection of well over a thousand stones, [...]
Surfacing
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beaches, florida, fort myers, palm trees on September 1, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Hi there, blogosphere! Long time no see!
For those of you not keeping up with D’s blog or keeping in touch by other means, we are now in Florida (state name: the Alligators With Mickey Mouse Ears State) – specifically, Fort Myers.
There are more palm trees down here than you can shake a stick at, unless [...]
Coincidence? You Be The Judge
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged coincidence, employment, house, job hunt, loss, opportunity, rochester on July 16, 2009 | 7 Comments »
For those of you as yet unaware of the situation, I have recently joined the ranks of the unemployed.
Along with the job, of course, goes the house we were gearing up to close on. Hard to pay a mortgage without an income.
I – and many others – have noted that it’s a very big ‘coincidence’ [...]
The Intro Riff: A Lost Art?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ac-dc, aerosmith, beethoven, classic, def leppard, guitar, guns n roses, intro, music, nirvana, rem, riffs, van halen on July 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
There are a few songs which most of us can identify within the first few seconds, and will be able to do so to the grave.
Love it or loathe it, the intro riff to Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is one of these. So is the opening to Aerosmith’s “Walk This [...]
Ding dong?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2010, 2012, 2016, alaska, governor, murkowski, news, palin, palin resigns, politics on July 4, 2009 | 11 Comments »
So the big news of the day is Sarah Palin’s resignation as governor of Alaska.
Supposedly, Palin has grown sufficiently sick of being savaged by the media as to warrant resignation. MSNBC is running a report that says she wants to be out of politics entirely, to take the time to raise her family.
Of course, many [...]
Happy Fourth!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged america, britain, independence day, july 4th, king george, liberty on July 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Happy Fourth of July to all my fellow Americans!
It still feels very weird to type ‘my fellow Americans’. Sort of like a new pair of shoes, which are very comfortable and look great, but due to their newness still seem a little awkward and tend to squeak if you turn around too fast.
Independence Day is [...]
Time for a goodbye
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged double neck, eds1275, gibson, goodbye, guitar on July 3, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Yesterday I said goodbye for the last time to a dear friend – one who was in my life for ten years, looked cooler than I ever could and was curvy in all the right places.
She was very much the centerpiece of my guitar collection, and never failed to catch the eye and spark conversation.
But [...]
Sixty is the loneliest number
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged al franken, climate change, democrats, filibuster, harry reid, politics, senate, supermajority, waxman-markey on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Or at least, it may feel that way to one Harry Mason Reid, currently Senate Majority Leader.
With the election – at last – of Al Franken, the Democrats have the “filibuster-proof supermajority” of which much has been said.
However, I think such things as the recent House vote on Waxman-Markey (the ‘climate change bill’) show that [...]
