A while back I posed a question regarding whether or not broken things could be repaired. Upon further analysis I think that "broken" is not the correct word, perhaps "faulty in conception and execution" would be better. With this realization in hand I guess the question now becomes "At what point is something no longer able to be rebuilt to new ( Read more... )

Why don't some people get that if you win an election with 40% of the vote it means that you have 60% against you ( Read more... )

Yesterday I found out that a friend's stepdad had passed away. He was not in a good way so, like my dad, it was probably a blessing but that does not make it any easier. The fact that it sounds like many of her family reacted to the death in the completely wrong way. This morning I find out that a VERY old friend's dad passed away from a heart ( Read more... )

Okay, so I got mailed the little link to find out how many people there are in the US with my name (that would be 4...) but what I found most disturbing was the comment that 99.7% of the people named X were male. There are over a million people named X. So if even .3% of them are named X AND female that is still 300,000 women named X in the US. The ( Read more... )

Have you ever had the suspicion that something had finally become so broken that it could not be fixed?

The Update today is mixed. Mom came home yesterday from the facility. Of course she has just had a month of being waited on hand and foot so I knew in my heart there were going to be problems. But the last 12 hours have been ridiculous. I understand that things are different- she is not as able to take care of herself as she was before the surgery ( Read more... )

CBGB's is closing ( Read more... )

Okay... here we go ( Read more... )

There is a choice ( Read more... )

Here we are again... a bar. I have worked in bars, hung out in bars, wooed the fairer sex in bars, laughed in bars, cried in bars, celebrated in bars, drowned my pain in bars... I have always felt that I had a pretty good handle on what is acceptable in bars. Well, I guess in my absence from bars over the last few years, things have changed. Here ( Read more... )