Serenity… a life's expedition

I’m sitting in the food court of my local mall right now, my laptop at a comfortable height on the table and the booth providing good support for my back. There is a bit of music in the background – easy listening, as they call it, that is very easy to not listen to, or [...]

The five year old, shrugging into his new favorite garment,  a black suit jacket that he wears with everything – jeans, shorts, jerseys, what have you – casually tosses out, as he walks to the door: Grandma, do I look like the President of the United States now? Yes,  my goofy grandson.  Indeed, you do.

Once I identified the problem – that I have too many things rushing in clamoring to be written about, thus causing the dreaded “writer’s block” – the solution seemed simple enough. Create a thought pot to just dump stray thoughts and ideas in, and free my mind for greater things.  Adam & Eve / The [...]

He’s almost single-handedly smashed to smithereens the justification used to get us to vote for – or, at least, not vehemently oppose – anti-choice Democrats: “Don’t worry, there’s only a few of them and they’re with us on the big stuff.” Good luck anyone trying to pull that one on again.

A rare quiet moment here, thank the goddes. To make a change from the regular cold or flu that’s been hanging around all winter, a little stomach bug walked in the house with one of my grandchildren last week, when they returned from a few days spent at their dad’s house, and it’s jumped from [...]

I’m going to do a post soon on ebooks I have found, and where  I’ve found them. This post is not it, it being just filler to put something on the page. Anyway, I resisted ebooks for a long time because I could not imagine reading something many thousands of words long on an itty [...]

Used by retiring or resigning or whatever Dem, Eric Massa, to describe Rahm Emmanuel: "Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil’s spawn," Massa said. "He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive."   Er… am I hearing [...]

But I think  I’d have to somehow arrange to die in Sweden . Also, it ain’t cheap being green, even when you are dead. Though that’s not really true, either – our carcasses are fairly perfectly designed to give back to the earth that we live off of when we are dead. It’s the rites [...]

At least one of my classes seems to be chock full of them. Pro-death penalty, anti-choice and who knows what else besides. There are a few other classmates who seem to be a bit more moderate but I appear to be the only flaming lefty liberal. Whatever happened to college campuses being hotbeds of Marxists, [...]

Chris Bodenner, filling in for Sully: Liz Cheney ratchets up the disgusting campaign led by Senator Chuck Grassley to impugn DOJ appointees who represented Gitmo detainees. Ackerman: You know, [the lawyers who] provided the representation that the Rehnquist and Roberts Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled those detainees are entitled? And which even the military commissions [...]