Trying to cast a shadow
After 72 weeks of unemployment and 2 years of the so-called homeowner's modification process, I have been back to work for 6 months and I am starting to feel like I just might be able to cast a...
View ArticleChristopher, Freidrich and Me
I first read Christopher Hitchens in the Nation back in the early eighties. He was a cool drink of angry liberal water in a desert of happy kowtowing to the amazing Reagan. I was a new student at...
View ArticleThese folks are crazy...
I just really don't get it. I have bent my brain and held the prism up to the light trying to see things the way these folks do, but it's not happening. I have attempted to maintain a level of...
View ArticleRon Paul- same as it ever was.
Having lived in Austin for thirty-one years this month and having graduated high school in Houston before that, Ron Paul is old hat to me. His bat-shit crazy "extreme ideas" have been around a long,...
View ArticleHappy Birthday to the King
Elvis Aaron Presley- We thought he was dated; he didn't have long hair and was largely a fixation of our older sisters and mothers; Graceland and his lifestyle was legend but to us, he had become a...
View ArticleI keep getting emails from FreedomWorks
And I just don't know why. I am pretty careful about where I leave my email; I try not to just leave it lying about where any Teabag organizing scallywag can find it. But they did. I went back and...
View ArticleThe BBC sees Mittens as a Winner- or Maybe Not?
Let's call it a day already. Sweet jeebus the GOP clown car has trotted out everyone with a pulse to introduce as "Not Mitt" and it just isn't going to happen. It wasn't a hard call from the git-go so...
View ArticleMitten's Taxes- Shall We Play a Game?
Well, a poll, really. I went with game in the title because "Shall we take a poll?" didn't have the same memory echo. I am curious what all the hullaballoo on his part is about and what have his...
View ArticleFreedomWorks Loves Me?
As I have mentioned before, the FreedomWorks morans have me on their mailing list. Most of what they send out are simply fundraising efforts along the lines of stopping the present bowl circling...
View ArticleReagan versus Carter: Why this isn't a re-run.
Newt Getrich (spell check says this is correct) is desperately trying to cast himself as the new Reagan. Reagan 2.0. or somesuch nonsense. He and Rmoney (spellcheck says okay) love to use the "beacon...
View ArticleWhy I'm Voting Republican
Okay that was hard to type; complete cognitive dissonance screaming in my head. Dammit, my brain just imploded, I will just have to let this video explain. Sure, it's a re-rerun, but I believe in...
View ArticleI homeschooled my son most of the eighth grade
This diary started as a comment in reply to this open thread post by Meteor Blades and then grew in length beyond a comment and took on a life all it's own. So I put it here. It is a topic that is...
View ArticleCan't Sleep
"The poor can't sleep because they are hungry; the rich can't sleep because the poor are awake." I heard a person being interviewed on the radio say that earlier today. It was in the background and...
View ArticleThe Sample of One Strikes Again
It never ceases to amaze me. When supposedly educated people read some factually based, well researched, diary or comments that they don't agree with, and just react with an emotional response...
View ArticleOf course, I change my own oil
and I recycle the used oil at the local auto parts. I am careful and do a minimum of impact to the environment, other than driving a fossil fuel device etc, etc. That said, I occasionally get a...
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Townes
"Townes Van Zandt, best damn songwriter ever and I'll say that standing on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots." Steve Earle was reputed to have said something like that; he has since admitted...
View ArticleI made a mortgage payment.
thats not that amazing to you but the last time I made one was November 2009. And I am still in the house and not under a bridge. That's a good thing and I am thankful. So much talk about all the...
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Between Light and Shadow
I am not a believer in Numerology, per se, but I have become a believer, especially as I have gotten older, in an order to things that transcends what we consider to be our normal methods of...
View ArticleI don't do Facebook
And it's all those reasons that have been re-iterated and alternately poo poo-ed a thousand times. Giving my information for some rich frat kid to get rich off of, doing the Government's work for...
View ArticleNPR- Mara Liason- well how nice??
This isn't a diary- it's a semi-rant and I know that going in. Ever heard the joke about the Southern belle who was sent to charm school where she learned to say "Well how nice?" instead of "Who gives...
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