Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I’ve mentioned before my fondness for Dancing With The Stars, which I see as a weekly morality tale for conservative values. Sure, I like watching beautiful people dance beautifully, but the show’s real attraction is how gosh-darned hard the winners — and most of the losers — work. The most
Continue readingWhen I watch Dancing With The Stars, I almost invariably end up fast forwarding through the rumbas. Rather than being classy, sinuous dances, they’re invariably sleazy gyrations that look like the prelude to a strip show. Except that last night I got to see a different kind of rumba. Rumer
Continue readingI have work to do today, but no actual deadlines, so naturally I’m procrastinating like crazy. And what better way to do so than to share a few interesting things with you? How about my starting with the most inspirational. I’ll go from the sublime to the ridiculous, which means
Continue readingRegular readers know that I’m quite fond of Dancing With The Stars. I like it on several levels. First, it’s what I call a “getting it right” show. The stars begin as neophytes, and through a lot of hard work, all get better and some get totally wonderful. Second, I love
Continue readingThat global warming sure has caused global cooling with a vengeance. My thoughts are with all of those who are suffering the brunt of this blast (or vortex?). Stay warm and safe, please. Here, I’m happy to say, it’s raining! Considering that Marin is constantly hovering just a few gallons
Continue readingWhen I watch Dancing With The Stars, I never watch the Rumba. Invariably, there’s no line between sexy and sleazy, so I always feel like a peeping Tom, watching a bedroom ritual. Certainly there’s never room at all for elegance and romance. That is, until Sadie Robertson does the Rumba, which
Continue readingI was watching Dancing With The Stars. Then, the family descended, insisting (collectively) that it needed to watch something else. So I found this instead: Have I mentioned that today has been a Murphy’s Law day? Also, am I the only one who’s ever noticed that watching baseball players is like
Continue readingI meant to post this last week, but I thought I’d get it in before tonight, when there’s a new episode of Dancing With The Stars. Sadie Robertson, of Duck Dynasty fame, claims never to have danced before appearing on DWTS. If that’s true, all I can say is that
Continue readingThose of you who don’t watch Dancing With The Stars might not know this, but one of the contestants is 17-year-old Sadie Robertson, of the Duck Dynasty family. She is an absolute delight as a dancer. Although she’s never danced before, she turns out to be a natural, from the tips of
Continue readingSince I’m not an Oprah fan, I skipped that part of the video. Hearing her talk about the different prosthetics, though, and watching her and Derek dance was a delight:
Continue readingI’ve gotten to the point at which I no longer see Amy Purdy’s prosthetic legs. Her dancing is so tight it’s amazing:
Continue readingSorry for the silence today. I had some bills to pay this morning, and then I took my mother out for lunch and shopping. Normally, I would come home from such an outing a nervous wreck. Today, though, my oldest best friend in the world, whom I’ve known since I
Continue readingThis has been a very strange day, starting at about 3 am when I awoke to find that the power had gone out. By the time I’d notified PG&E, I was wide awake and suspected that my day had begun early. Then, one of the dogs came down, which she
Continue readingYes, I continue to be impressed by Amy Purdy’s turn on Dancing With The Stars. What she is able to do despite having two prosthetic legs is a testament to so many things: modern prosthetics, Derek Hough’s superb choreography, Purdy’s innate physicality and, most of all, her will power and optimistic
Continue readingThis is one of those days where my day totally didn’t go as planned . . . but for good reasons. How often can one say that? Plans or no plans, though, the news marches on and there’s so much interesting stuff I want to share with you. *** When
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