What’s wrong with Democrats

It’s all said in this post here by some Texas Democrat.* He sez Kinky Friedman (shown in the photo) should withdraw and endorse some sad sack loser named Chris Bell because Mr. Bell has been nominated by the Democratic Party in the race, and if Kinky stays in the race, it will [...]

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The Kinkster must have ‘em running scared!

Yesterday someone calling himself “BanjoMan” left a long comment to my “Ebenezer Scrooge” entry, which I managed to delete this morning before I’d had all my coffee. I had a copy of his comment as an email. I realized later that it probably is on point so I reposted it as a comment there.
It’s about [...]

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Murder. Snowflakes. Idiots.

Idiots. The world is full of idiots. And so many are in charge of things. Like the US government.
The only slight glimmer of hope among the recent displays of boundless idiocy in Washington DC over the stem cell bill, is that the religious right may be losing its iron grip on the, [...]

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It’s official

People who buy and drive Hummers are tofu-eating wimp losers who can’t handle someone cutting in line at the playground.
It’s proven by Hummer’s two current TV commercials. In one, a woman’s little boy loses his turn at the slide to a kid whose mom just cuts right in front of them. In the [...]

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Where’s Ebenezer Scrooge when we need him the most?

Christmas is coming!
I know, this is only July. But the fine folks who peddle merchandise to us on cable TV don’t want us to be caught unprepared five months from now. Perhaps right now you are sipping your iced tea and casting an appraising eye on your front lawn, just imagining the wonder [...]

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The Great Outdoors

George in Denver has posted a letter to his dearly (and recently) departed wonderful dog, Sweet Melissa, about a recent weekend camping trip. My favorite parts are about all the damn schlepping it seems to take to get yerself out into the great outdoors. Here’s a bit of George’s explanation to Melissa:
Camping is [...]

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Who owns Highlands Ranch?

Who owns Highlands Ranch?
Isn’t that a silly question, like asking “Who owns Denver?” or “Who owns Topeka?” After all, Highlands Ranch, Colorado is a postal address, a booming suburban area developed over the last few decades on what used to be ranchland south of Denver. However, there is no town or city of Highlands Ranch. [...]

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Accidentally and hypothetically

Friend stirred her coffee and grinned. “What?” I ask, thinking do I have spinach stuck in my teeth.
“Oh, nothing.”
“Come on. You’re up to something.”
“Well . . .”
“Tell me.”
“Hmm. OK. It’s like this.” She sat up straight. “I was just thinking of an, um, hypothetical situation which would be funny.” [...]

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Civic Center Park

Now and then small bits of common sense break through in a city’s political/civic life. It’s just happened again here in Denver, on the subject of the City’s Civic Center Park.
The park is both a small jewel in the City’s crown and a few square blocks crawling with drug dealers

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July 9 Birthdays

Here are some names I found on this list of today’s birthdays, a wildly assorted group:

July 9, 1964 Courtney Love, SF, vocalist, Hole, /actress, People vs Larry Flynt
July 9, 1956 Tom Hanks, born in Concord, California, actor, Bossom Buddies, Forrest Gump, Phila
July 9, 1955 Jimmy Smits, born in Brooklyn, actor, Victor-LA Law, Running [...]

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The Fragile Circle

The Fragile Circle
“We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own, live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached.
Unable to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other way.
We cherish memory as the only certain immortality, never fully understanding the necessary plan.”
– Irving Townsend
George in Denver reports [...]

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July 6 Birthdays

What a group. Today’s birthday kids include:
George W. Bush: July 6, 1946. Sylvester Stallone: July 6, 1946. (Separated at birth?)
Nancy Reagan: July 6, 1923.
Frida Kahlo: July 6, 1907.

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Shame

Shame on the powers-that-be in the Denver Public Library system.
They have had to drastically reduce the hours that a local branch is open this summer – because the air conditioning system is broken and it’s taking forever to fix it.
I’ve heard rumblings that they had plenty of advance notice of the problems but did nothing [...]

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Today’s birthday of note

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
–Princess Diana (fka Diana, Priness of Wales; Lady Diana Spencer)
She was born 45 (!) years ago today, on July 1, 1961.

R.I.P. to a flawed but incredibly charismatic shooting star in [...]

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1,032

As of now, I have 1,032 books in my catalog at LibraryThing. The statistics page tells me that there are 934 “distinct works.” I’m not sure all of them are duplicate copies of the same titles. Some of the apparent duplications may be due to having a book in hardcover and [...]

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The grace in growing older

One of my favorite book titles is The Grace in Older Women, a Lovejoy novel by Jonathan Gash. I must admit that I recall not a bit of the plot, a sad fact in light of my personal relationship to the whole Lovejoy thing – I’ll have to explain that here sometime.
Today’s column by [...]

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