Category: Bits and Pieces

I really like this article from the Anchoress about the need to hold ourselves to high standards (a need, surprisingly that Obama articulated to the NAACP), and Babs Boxer’s grotesque demonstration of what happens when we hold certain segments of our society to low standards.  The Anchoress also has a

The GOP did a great job with this one (although, frankly, they had a lot of good material at hand): [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2MjQ17kDng[/youtube] I wrote to all my Congress women today telling them that, if they vote for the health care bill, they can count on a no vote from me next

My home page is BNO News on Twitter, which is a headline aggregator.  This morning, I was greeted with this series of headlines: AP: Obama adviser says US has come substantial distance back from the abyss of economic disaster.about 1 hour ago from BNO Headquarters Michigan’s unemployment rate in June

I’m away from my computer for a few hours and return to find the headlines filled with stories of a terrible bombing at two luxury hotels in Jakarta.  I’m going to guess that Catholics are not behind the bombing.  I’m also going to guess that Hindus, Jews, Protestants, animists, Wiccans,

At NoisyRoom, Terresa has a list of all of the czars that Obama has appointed — so far.  You should definitely check that list out.  It is, as is the case with so many Obama initiatives, unnerving. What’s really fascinating is that Terresa has commenters as wonderful (and informed) as

I like alliteration so much, I was tempted to pull an Elmer Fudd and title this post “Wast Week’s Watcher’s Winners,” but I restrained myself.  I’ll just give you the winners, sans alliteration: Winning Council Submissions First place with 2 1/3 points! – The Provacateur – How Bonds Work (and

With California getting perilously close to bankruptcy, you’d think that the government might want to trim or cut a few extraneous budget items.  What’s insane is that, despite an endless list of possibilities, our government claims that everything on the budget is absolutely necessary and cannot be cut.  People —

Just so you know, the dog survived and is doing fine.  But really, this is one owie set of photographs, and one very lucky little dog.

Okay, the article didn’t really say the fish had PMS.  It’s just what I thought when I read the last sentence.

Yesterday was the huge county swim meet that closes out the season.  At the end of the day, my daughter pointed out that, according to her admittedly informal information gathering, one of the lanes in which she swam had better outcomes than did the other lanes.  “I think it was

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhhkF3dqXR0[/youtube] Hat tip:  Zhombre