Posted in Current Events, Humor, News Media, Politics, Sex, War, tagged Fallon, Fernley, Humboldt County, Nevada, Paradise Valley, World War II on December 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Mine are few because I never seem able to keep them anyway. But just in case God is making a list of good intentions in preparation for paving the road to Hell, here are a few.
This is both a look-back and a look forward vow. I am never going to read those ubiquitous summaries of [...]
Posted in Current Events, Foreign Policy, History and Recollections, Human Nature, Love, Surviving, War, tagged Christmas, Peace, Separation on December 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Servicemen and women often spend Christmas away from their families. Some are away from home a couple of Christmases in a row, depending on the state of the world at any point in time as viewed in Washington, D.C.
I understand the feelings of longing of those serving in foreign countries. I’ve spent my share [...]
Posted in Current Events, Human Nature, Humor, Surviving, tagged Bedbugs, Centipedes, Falling out of Bed, REM on December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…don’t let the bedbugs bite…
Bedbugs are sadistic, pandemic little creatures from the Cenozoic Age or something like that.
Bedbugs viciously attack and leave little red bite marks all over the most sensitive parts of the human body. And like the cowards they are, they waylay you when you are in a defenseless state of deep slumber. [...]
Posted in Communities, Current Events, History and Recollections, Humor, North Bay, tagged Daly City, Google Earth, Minden Nevada, Orinda, Petaluma, Pinole, San Rafael on December 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Imagine my surprise the other day when, surfing through Google Earth, I discovered the house of my birth in Google Earth’s Street View. This is startling when you consider that this little town in The Old Country is off the beaten path, literally off the grid. What the heck is Google Earth thinking, cruising up [...]
Posted in Blogs, Current Events, Education, Human Nature, Humor, tagged Assholism, The Elements of Style on December 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Every year the Christmas spirit comes over me and I do my level best to put aside the events of the past and look to the future with a bright and optimistic attitude.
Not everyone shares my philosophy. There are dissonant voices in the wilderness. One of them communicated his or her disagreement a few days [...]
Posted in Current Events, Politics, Power, tagged Congress, Nancy Pelosi, Raul Emmanuel on December 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Suddenly, Nancy Perlosi is going to get tough. With Raul Emmanuel. With Harry Reid. With Barack Obama. With George Bush.
Whoops. Scratch Bush. Nancy knows when to fold ‘em and when to hold ‘em. She’s folded ‘em so many times with Bush, she throws her hand in automatically when he sits down at the table.
But now, [...]
Posted in Current Events, Foreign Policy, Humor, Politics, Power, tagged Caroline Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, Presidential Pardons, Shoe Throwing on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
According to the latest news out of Iraq, the Iraqi journalist who threw a couple of shoes at George Bush during a news conference in Baghdad, has been arrested and beaten by Iraqi policemen.
President Bush seemed to derive so much glee from his ability to dodge the shoes that he ought to exercise his constitutional [...]
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