Like, Douglas Adams, my absolute favorite piece of information, that I admit is most assuredly an example of one of the first urban legends and thus a complete fabrication, yet it is so enticing one hopes it to be true. But I'm digressing away from the point too much here, is this: Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up ( Read more... )

This is not a joke. I put down a book earlier, another Cussler work of over the top fiction that he somehow seems to make readable. In it he used the phrase, "He's either very smart or very stupid" uttered by the villain about some seemingly bat$#!& crazy move by the protagonist ( Read more... )

California lawmakers are in a crisis and supposedly "locked away" until they can come up with a working budget. Meanwhile, in the midst of their false concerns, some 20,000 state employees worry about the status of their employment.
All of this superficial concern and "hard work" is simply so much one-up-manship to see who can be more sympathetic to ( Read more... )

Micheal Phelps smoked some dope. So what? In the scheme of things, is this a story worthy of a headline? With everything going on in South Carolina the attorney general needs to see about charges. Can you say political opportunity, Bueller? Anyone...anyone?

When Michael Vic was caught killing, fighting and possessing a general malaise of cruelty ( Read more... )

The Webster dictionary defines socialism as: noun
a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

The Republican Party defines socialism as what a Democratic president tries to spend American Taxpayer money on the ( Read more... )

The other day my mother asked me if I had heard California may give I.O.U.'s for the money they owe back to the tax paying citizens of this state. I haven't heard this, but it makes sense. The wife of a friend of mine works for a clinic, apparently the state is giving I.O.U.'s for MediCal.

So California is broke, or nearly broke and everyone is ( Read more... )

Having seen, and dismissed as just OK looking, the trailer for Juno. My surprise was all the greater when Tea and I saw it. It's really a well done and thought provoking film. As cliche as that sounds. Well done as in: written well, acted well and shot well. Thought provoking due to it's content and the point of view it never really takes. The film ( Read more... )

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I'm always late discovering these things, so many of you have probably seen this already. Cats and dogs, you never know what one of them is going to think is the next, great thing.

Currently playing in iTunes: Universal Mind Control (UMC) by Common

Happy New Year!!!I can't believe we are almost a decade past the year 2000. Remember all the build up? Y2K and the political campaigns. Gore won, no wait no he didn't win. Uh, wait he might have after all. No, they can't count those votes. Yeah he lost. 'N-Sync, Britany Spears and Nelly battled Limp Bizkit, Sisqo and Eminem for the top spot on the ( Read more... )

Yesterday as I shuffled outside to throw away the boxes stuffed with the ornate, brightly colored paper that once masked their contents. I tossed them in the trash bin with a sigh and realized I have an early onset case of that Post Christmas melancholy.

PCM permeates and radiates from a lot of us just after the holidays. The months of build up ( Read more... )