Oh, how the Right Wing throws a “tea party” to rival even those held in Alice's hallucinogenic Wonderland. Using fear, blatant mistruth and a little pocket money to gather the naive and nutty in spirited protest against their own best interests.

Healthcare Reform, especially a robust public option, is parroted as “socialism” as if the designation ( Read more... )

In short, there is no free lunch.

Let’s put aside the somewhat petty and predictable frustrations that go like the right wine with living under someone else’s roof, and thus under someone else’s rules. Especially after thirty years of owning my own homes or at the very least being Master of My Own Domain in all those pre-marriage and-post divorce ( Read more... )

Conditions today are Sunday, with a steady drizzle weeping from gray, overcast skies and a chilly snap in the air.

Perfect.

Ideal conditions to robe-up and retrieve the Sunday Times in its wet blue baggie from the front lawn, brew a couple cups of coffee, toss the kids some cereal bars to gobble in front of their cartoons and hasten back to bed. ( Read more... )

It’s been a while.

So long in fact that Illuminaught’s always modest and steadily receding readership has doubtless collapsed in its entirety.  Such comparative privacy being all the better for a brain-dump most profound: but fear not, unlike the “final” post lo those many months ago this one, while encompassing the very mysteries of [my] life, ( Read more... )

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An epiphany: this is what I do when I should be doing something else.

Case in point: right now, what I should be doing is the dishes, squelching the resentment that comes with the fact that-of the rotting heap of plates, forks, knives, bowls and glasses in need of soap and water-only about two of them were used by me personally.

In the nag-o-sphere ( Read more... )

I increasingly feel that I need to do something.

Now by “do something” I don’t mean going to fly a kite in the park, skip stones across a lake or, maybe most sadly, do my laundry.  I don’t mean going to see a movie, building a model ship or (sorry sweetie) the “doing something” one does when they go out dancing.  I’m not even talking about the ( Read more... )

OMAHA, Neb. - Amicable billionaire Warren Buffett has shed some light on the US economic downturn that proved surprising even to a frazzled public that has come to expect just about anything on the topic, as long as it’s bad. Appearing live on CNBC Monday morning, Buffett said of the economy, “It’s fallen off a cliff.”

Pressed for background ( Read more... )

Possibly the funniest manipulated images since the advent of Photoshop. 

Enjoy, and happy Friday.

This rabbit hole just keeps going deeper.

Over the course of the last few weeks I have found myself amazed and not too delighted to note that my adoptive home base of Jacksonville, Florida is by far the single most featured location on the reality show “Cops.” Episode after teeth-grinding episode of trailer trash rednecks and crazy ghetto crack ( Read more... )