Category: Bits and Pieces

I’ve been wondering today why people are so fanatically devoted to their political parties that they accept them without analysis and stick to them regardless of changes in their own beliefs or in the party’s own platform.  When it comes to things that are equally important, such as marriage, people

I don’t think it’s very useful, but this new website — Select 2008 — is a rather fun way to while away time examine political issues and seeing from issue to issue where your candidates stand.  Actually, that’s unfair of me.  It may be useful to people who aren’t up

Is it a bad sign if you have Peanut M&Ms for breakfast because they’re the fastest thing to prepare and have lots of instant energy? Things here should shudder to a halt in a few hours, and I’ll get to some serious writing then (I hope).  For now, I’ll just

Does it come as a surprise to any of you to learn that middle-age is depressing?  As I’ve mentioned before, I know why: [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=lTpFUT-lxls]

I’ve already got two posts started, one in my head and one on the computer, but have to head off to a meeting.  Check back later.  Meanwhile, I’ll leave you with the words of that good, longtime, adamant liberal, Mr. Bookworm:  “Does anyone care that Kennedy endorsed Obama?”

I hate tax season, not just because I have to pay the government, but because I have to listen to my husband ask “What were you thinking when you….?”  “Why didn’t you….?”  “Why did you….?”  It doesn’t help that his questions are usually correct in that I mis-categorized something, or

This is one of the rainiest days I can remember in I don’t know how long. Huge drops of water falling steadily for hours. I live on a hill and the street in front of my house looks like a river. My back yard is flat and flooded. I’m pretty

For those who hate catch-phrases — especially this election’s catch-phrase of “change” — here’s one for you.  Be sure to watch the whole thing: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEaS-K3j3M8] Hat tip:  LGF

I finally caught up with three articles that I think are pretty much must-reads, all of them reprinted at National Review Online: 1.  Thomas Sowell about the problems with McCain’s age — problems we can’t pretend do not exist.  (And as someone who has watched the remarkably quick aging process

It’s a truly dreadful story, but with a happy ending, because a man behaved like a man: A millionaire yesterday told how he fought off three armed burglars who were holding a knife to his daughter’s throat, saying he “would rather die like a man than a dog”. Bernard Dwyer,