December tunes

The last day of November, and it’s sunny and cold here today.  
November is a tiring month for me, and I’m always glad when the 29th is over.  Although the sharp grief is past, I can’t forget it’s the date when my dad died – much too young – suddenly, after a heart attack.  Many years ago.  [...]

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Peace talks

I just had to share Mike Keefe’s editorial cartoon in today’s Denver Post:

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I spy

I took the “If You Were a Spy…“ quiz on gURL.com

I am a…
hannah senesh
Does everyone always exclaim how brave and fearless you are? Maybe when you were two, you had no qualms about jumping off furniture or going down the big slide. Your spy personality is Hannah Senesh, meaning that you’re probably courageous, loyal and [...]

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Stalls of shame

I have season tickets for a regional theater company here.   The last several times I’ve queued up in the main floor ladies’ room there, no matter which stall I end up in, I have found that the stall no longer has either the fold-down purse shelf which each stall used to have, or the basic purse/coat hook [...]

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It didn’t start with the Big Mac

Yesterday I watched a documentary on MSNBC about McDonald’s.  It was a repeat; the show was first aired last July.   Hosted by Carl Quintanilla, the program featured some critics of McDonald’s who view it as the insidious purveyor of unhealthy food which it shamelessly markets to children. 
It got me to wondering about the social history of the American hamburger.  [...]

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What would Jesus give?

Denver Post editorial writer Bob Ewegen is my favorite Republican newspaper columnist.  Who, I’m sure, the people in charge of the GOP these days wish would just die.  Because he’s rational, compassionate, smart, and can think for himself.   His column today is posted in whole below the fold in case the link doesn’t work. 
Having bought [...]

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Administration of the Lances

Garrison Keillor is charming me lately through his weekly newspaper column - which runs on Saturdays here in the Rocky.  This week he contemplates “W. Lance Anderson, the president of NovaStar Financial in Kansas City, who while handing out subprime mortgages to any applicant wearing shoes and a shirt managed to sink the company’s stock from [...]

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When turkeys flew

Many thanks to Cranky Prof for posting this.  It’s so much fun that I just have to post it too.

WKRP:  admit it, you still miss it sometimes.
EDITED to add:   Take a peek at this much too cute dog waiting for turkey.

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Networked

 As reported in the Denver Post, this kid has the right idea of networking:
Marisol Tanguma is a little girl with a big heart who understands the power of networking.
On Tuesday, Courtney Tanguma, 4-year-old Marisol’s mother, told the Castle Rock preschooler that the Denver Rescue Mission was in need of donated turkeys to feed homeless people. [...]

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Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines

I almost always worked the day after Thanksgiving, because I almost always worked for state or local government agencies who do not observe the day after Thanksgiving as a holiday, and I saw no reason to burn a day of vacation leave on it. 
On Thanksgiving Friday the office was quiet.  It was the perfect time [...]

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I predict a very special Darwin award for this product

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has recalled candles wrapped in birch bark because they are, well, a fire hazard.  
I am surprised that:  (1) somebody decided this would be a good product line, (2) somebody else filled the orders to make the products, and (3) other people decided to sell them to the public.   Okay, not so [...]

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But I’m pretty sure I have a handle on the breathing and eating activities

An unsung writer of book jacket copy blew out some brain wiring over Rosie O’Donnell’s new book, Celebrity Detox.  The jacket copy ends with a flourish:
Rosie O’Donnell illuminates not only what it’s like to be a celebrity, but also what it’s like to be a mother, a daughter, a leader, a friend, a sister, a wife…in short, [...]

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Next episode

Eight months ago I was freed from the daily routine of holding a job.  It’s been fun.  Some weeks I slept late and stayed up later.   I took some wonderful trips.  Played with my new digital cameras at home and away.  Read lots of books just for fun.  Spent time with family and friends.  Blogged [...]

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Homeland security

 
Our fine bureaucrats in the Department of Homeland Security [sic] would rather watch our country’s buildings burn down than let a single questionable person sneak across the border.  On a firetruck.  With flashing lights and sirens.  Responding to a fire call.
I wish I were making this up.  This federal agency has gone beyond incompetence – into insanity.
Full [...]

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Another bubble busted

I admitted here the other day that I’ve been watching too much TV.   But over the weekend I didn’t watch much TV.  Instead, when home (and I did go out and do things) I spent way too much time browsing the fora* over at Television without Pity, a site I found on Friday.  I had much [...]

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Hocus Pocus and Doctor Poo

I’ve been watching too much TV lately.  OK, I don’t literally sit in front of the tube holding the remote and staring at the screen.   The TV is on a lot when I’m home.  I’m usually absorbing the TV shows while I’m on the computer (as I’m doing right now), reading, twiddling around in the kitchen, or sorting laundry.   I [...]

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54,997

As of this moment, that’s the number of spam comments that the Askimet spam-blocker has prevented from being posted on this blog.
At no charge to this here blogger.
Thanks, WordPress.

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Unruly judiciary

un • ru • ly – adjective, -li·er, li·est.
not submissive or conforming to rule; ungovernable; turbulent; intractable; refractory; lawless: an unruly class; an unruly wilderness.  *

It’s like the bad old days of policing in the USA:  bring in a suspect, interrogate him, and if he doesn’t say what you want, beat the crap out of [...]

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Stomping on the law in Pakistan

I am sitting here at my computer just pissed off as can be, after reading this story online.
 Many lawyers in Pakistan have mobilized to protest their President’s seizure of essentially absolute power – he suspended the constitution.  Just ahead of a supreme court ruling on whether said President’ re-election was legal.  Lawyers are being arrested by the hundreds.  Even [...]

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My four cents’ worth

I didn’t know what the Hollywood screen writers are going to be striking about, until I read Bruce Cameron’s column in today’s Rocky Mountain News.  It’s about four cents – which is the royalty amount a screenwriter gets from the sale of a DVD of a movie she wrote.  The writers’ union wants the next [...]

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Seen at the public library

 An evocative list of subjects (Ross – University Hills branch).

Uneasy shelf-fellows (Schlessman branch).

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Speaking of judgments

Whacked-out Fred “all hate, all the time” Phelps and his traveling band of Kansas nutcases have been slapped with a judgment against them of $11 million in a Maryland civil case filed by the father of a solider whose funeral was targeted by the Phelps traveling circus. 
Couldn’t happen to a more appropriate bunch. 
This whole deal will [...]

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