If Microsoft designed the iPod package

From YouTube:

H/T to Matthew at Bad Language.

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Quote for today

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
–Eleanor Roosevelt

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I will certainly fly AirTran next chance I get – if there’s room left

While Gerald and Julie Kulesza (see below) have been basking in their victim-of-the-week turns on national TV shows, the public has rallied behind AirTran: 92 percent of the emails and phone calls flooding in to the company have been supportive of the flight crew’s decision to take the clueless parents and their out-of-control loinfruit [...]

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My prayer for the day

Lord, keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.

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More results of bad parenting

It’s not limited to the media ”victims of the week” – Julie Kulesza and Gerald Kulesza (see below).    The PhilosophicaLawyer has posted another wonderful letter to a client about the consequences of certain behavior.  Just go read it. 

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Um, the crying wasn’t the problem

By now I guess you’ve heard or read about Elly Kulesza. She is the 3-year-old girl who, along with her parents Julie Kulesza and Gerald (Gerry) Kulesza, was escorted off an AirTran flight. The Kulesza family has starred in a lot of news coverage, including an appearance on ABC.
The headlines, and the [...]

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Another day, another title

I’m over the “Studley Roger” thing, so I went off to get a new peculiar aristocratic title.
This one is a promotion to Imperial Majesty. And it might work as a blog title. If I felt like sharing my leering activities with the world. Which I don’t.

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is:

Imperial [...]

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My Peculiar Aristocratic Title

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is:
Her Grace Lady Suz the Free of Studley Roger
Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

“Studley Roger” – an interesting phrase.  Heh heh heh.
(HT to Out of the Frying Pan)

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Nuckin’ Futs

Indeed.  A little late, I found JibJab’s nifty year in review video.  Go there.  Now.

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Our fine totalitarian regime: Atticus Finch should have been stripped of his assets and run out of town

Yes, by “our totalitarian regime” I mean the George W. Bush administration, most recently represented by the remarks of Charles D. “Cully” Stimson, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs [pictured here] – “detainees” being those persons who’ve been held now for more than five years by the US military authorities at Guantánamo [...]

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Is nothing sacred? Must everything change?

Now they’re changing ISBN numbers.  Those unique identifiers for books.
Read all about it courtesy of LawPundit.
I’m not ready for this.  I know, it has happened anyway.  Just saying.

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Dog is my co-pilot, indeed.

From the news:
Dog takes bullet protecting owner
German Shepherd may lose limb after robbery
By Kristin Bender, STAFF WRITER
Last Updated:01/12/2007 02:32:59 AM PST
OAKLAND — An Oakland family’s German Shepherd could lose a leg after being shot by a robber Wednesday.
Buffy, a usually docile 100-pound dog, was shot once in her upper front left leg while trying [...]

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January 11: random anniversary notes

On this date 30 years ago I moved to Colorado.
On this date 20 years ago the Denver Broncos won a big NFL playoff game against the Cleveland Browns, in Cleveland: Elway and The Drive.
On this date last year, my little old dog Dusty died.
I’ve never regretted moving to Colorado.
I’ve had phases of following the [...]

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Life keeps happening

But the blog doesn’t.   The management apologizes to those (two or three) kind souls who browse by here now and then, for the lack of new content lately.
The proprietor has been otherwise occupied.  With her job.  And her life.  Moving up to a big life change.  Living and working through a couple of big bad [...]

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