Category: Bits and Pieces

I attended an award ceremony today for Jewish teens who have made a difference.  My teens were not among this group, nor will they ever be.  They are good people, and I am happy about that, but their current talents and interests do not go in philanthropic directions.  So it

The Watcher posed an interesting question over at the Forum: What do you feel you know now about life that you wish you’d known when you were eighteen?  There were several equally interesting responses.  A snafu meant that my response didn’t get into the Forum, but here’s what I sent

I can attest to the truth behind each one of the items on this list.  Sigh…. Still, I want you to know that I am not a leftie victim.  I’m a survivor.  But as an America, I am of course petitioning the federal government for special leftie rights.  Hmmm.  That

Strandbeest is simultaneously the strangest and most compelling thing I’ve seen in a while. “Since 1990 I have been occupied creating new forms of life. “Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic material of this new nature.  I make skeletons that are able to

I never really thought much about disability until I moved to Chico in 2011. As we met our neighbors, we found that next door, in a house originally purchased for more than $400,000.00 (we bought ours from the bank for a lot less than that, thankfully) lived two people, BOTH

We got home a couple of hours ago, and my brain is mush.  In addition to 19 hours of travel time from leaving the hotel room to getting home, I had insomnia the night before we left, so I started off pretty ragged.  I’m not capable any more of rational

Giggles, a two-week old whitetail deer fawn in Wisconsin was executed by minions of the state, who were only following orders. Giggles’ problem was that The Society of St. Francis rescued her, and the law prohibits rescue agencies (even no-kill ones like the Society of St. Francis) from holding state

Leftism expressed in (less than) a sentence!  This is “our guy”, Keith Ellison.  He’s got the “Truth” down pat — they own all the money, and while they’ll let you keep some of what you earn for the time being, just remember that if the Feds get short….you’ll be expected

I say “no”. Sad to say, the “people” voted for the Democrats who voted for Obamacare. It is now the law of the land. By trying to impede Obamacare, the Republicans are only setting themselves up to be blamed for its failings. As H.L. Mencken put it: “Democracy is the

Apparently, his mother dropped him down the drain (watch the video at the link) in the squat toilet of a shared bathroom in her apartment building.  He was heard crying, and when rescuers couldn’t pull him back out, they went downstairs and cut a section of (plastic) pipe away with

I heard Lars Larson this afternoon, reporting that in NY a couple’s house was visited by law enforcement because she had been Googling pressure cookers and her husband had been looking for a backpack online. It sounded terrible on a number of levels — NSA-based paranoia can lead us to

Obama Signs Executive Order, Sends $500 million to Terrorists Here’s a copy of the President’s order, addressed to the omniincompetent John Kerry (who, by the way, served in Vietnam), that somehow evades the congressional ban on any funds being sent to the PA on the West Bank. There will at