Posted in Current Events, Foreign Policy, Politics, Power, War, tagged McCain, Obama, Presidential Campaign on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“The mind is a strange thing, men.
We must begin by asking it…
…What is losing?
Losing is a disease…
…as contagious as polio.
Losing is a disease…
…as contagious as syphilis.
Losing is a disease…
…as contagious as bubonic plague…
… attacking one…
… but infecting all.
But curable.”
The preceding is a snatch of dialog from the movie The Natural.
The manager of a losing baseball [...]
Posted in Communities, Crime, Current Events, Demographics, Education, North Bay on May 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’ve always been a lover of lists, stuff like The 100 Sexiest Jobs in Elko NV, Top Five Hunks in the History of Human Civilization, and The 100 Best Places to Raise a Family.
The latter is a real list put together by the Today Show’s Best Life editors from a plethora of sources such as [...]
Posted in Blogs, Current Events, Humor on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is Post Number 500 since I opened this site in April 2007.
So what? Ho hum. Yawn. What’s the big deal, pal?
Well, I’ve been cranking these things out at the rate of more than one a day. That’s what the Blog Gurus advise a new blogger to do.
Their advice is based on the assumption [...]
Posted in Humor, News Media, Politics on May 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Recently, Fog City Journal appointed me the very first Official Fan of Fog City Journal. This is a prestigious position, so prestigious, in fact, that they pay me nothing. Instead, my reward is my name on FCJ’s Facebook page alongside the names of other executive-level officers. For an ex-enlisted man, that’s a pretty heady promotion. [...]
Posted in Human Nature, Love, Romance on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…only better…
Occasionally, I run across nice people on the ‘net. One such is Jeannie Watt. No, I don’t know her personally. She’s a romance novelist who writes about ordinary people in modern-day small town communities in Nevada’s Cowboy Country where she lives.
She’s the best author I’ve stumbled across in recent memory. When I say “stumbled [...]
Posted in Current Events, Demographics, Foreign Policy, Politics, Power on May 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I notice that Cuba is on the front burner all of a sudden. I watched John Boy blasting Barack on television this morning because Barack says he will talk to Raul Castro. John wants to continue the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba for another 100 years.
John’s argument is interesting. He believes U.S. pressure on Cuba [...]
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