Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
What with heat waves, smoke filled air (from semi-local fires), and wind storms, I’ve been having fairly constant migraines for the past week, and if that’s not a drag, I don’t know what is. I have learned something this past week, though. No matter what it feels like, your eyeballs
Continue readingW”B”S sent me this marvelous old photograph, taken at Camp Dodge, in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1918. Click on the thumbnail to enlarge:
Continue readingIt seems I’m not the only one who looks back on the early 1980s as a good era musically. So, for fun, here are a few other songs. First, Philip Bailey and Phil Collins with 1985’s Easy Lover: [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=n9xY_cPenSs[/youtube] Second, Stevie Wonder’s I Just Called to Say I Love You
Continue readingDo you believe in love at first sight?
Continue readingJust wanted to give you a heads up that there is a new site taking on the Digg crowd (which has pretty much become an all Progressive forum). It’s called R-igg. Check it out here and feel free to promote my posts there, if you desire. All you have to
Continue readingMy new car has XM radio, and I like the decades stations. On the rare occasion that I find myself in the car alone, if there’s nothing good on talk radio (no Dennis Prager, no Hugh Hewitt, no Michael Medved), I immerse myself in the music of the 40s through
Continue readingDavid Suissa has created a series of ads to remind people of all the marvelous contributions Israel has made to the world during its short time as a country (and, impressively, a country perpetually under siege). I think it’s time to create some ads for the Muslim and Arab world
Continue readingAm I the only person who finds it incredibly irritating when there is a long, long line to discover that the person in front of me, who must have known for quite a while that she was going to pay by check, takes out her check book and starts filling
Continue readingWe had dinner with a group of neighbors yesterday, which was a lot of fun. I have a new grill, which was pretty exciting. Growing up in the fog belt — with European parents, yet — I’d never grilled before and had only been to a few BBQs in my
Continue readingMy McAfee virus protection stopped working. I finally discovered why: the latest updates conflict with my Norton Ghost, which is my computer back-up system. That puts me between a rock and hard place, doesn’t it? Aargh!
Continue readingI was raised on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Little Princess and Secret Garden books — but not just any versions. The ones that I read and re-read zealously, and that I still own, are the ones with the beautiful Tasha Tudor drawings (versions that, interestingly enough, are not available through Amazon).
Continue readingIn my neck of the woods, morning is usually a cool time. Today, at 6:30, it was 80 degrees. We’re simply not equipped here for that kind of heat. My house has no A/C and, worse, no cross-ventilation. Unless a true wind starts blowing (in which case the whole house
Continue readingOne Democrat Republican (thanks, Judy Rose) takes to the floor of the House and explains what the majority is really saying: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EcQ03qRE1s&eurl=http://hotair.com/archives/2008/06/20/how-to-speak-democrat-a-lecture-by-rep-thad-mccotter/[/youtube] Hat tip: Danny Lemieux
Continue readingThis guy, Bill Kipp, will be giving lessons in my community soon and, barring some unforeseen event, I plan to be there. What’s so fascinating is that, despite being a black belt and a Marine, Kipp too was a sheep — something he knew for a fact because of the
Continue readingI apologize for not blogging today. It was a combination of things. I got a rush project from DQ, who was blindsided by a really dirty, last-minute attack from opposing counsel; I had my son home all day (no camp plans today); I had martial arts; and it was hot.
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