And that is all I currently have to say about installing laminate flooring.

We just finished filling in our giant jackhammered hole with concrete. Very pretty. Well, not really. But very much so in comparison with a giant hole in the ground ( Read more... )

that I despise Republicans. On the day after the one year anniversary that was the travesty of the Bush reelection, it seems a good time to point it out ( Read more... )

What do you do as a President when you are down to an approval rating of the high 30's and the majority of the public has concluded your administration is unethical ( Read more... )

okay, okay, I realize that makes no sense to any of you, with the possible exception of possiblybored ( Read more... )

Reason # 1,299 that I despise Republicans. This story is from the Associated Press this morning:

NEW YORK Oct 14, 2005 - American Girl, manufacturer of a highly popular line of dolls and children's books, has become the target of conservative activists threatening a boycott unless the toy maker cuts off contributions to a youth organization that ( Read more... )

From Sunday's Chicago Tribune: "Theodore Roosevelt Heller, 88, loving father of Charles (Joann) Heller; dear brother of the late Sonya (the late Jack) Steinberg. Ted was discharged from the U.S. Army during WWII due to service-related injuries, and then forced his way back into the Illinois National Guard insisting no one tells him when to serve ( Read more... )

It's really quite pathetic. Sasha, the canine baby of the family, has a tendency to want to put herself to bed whenever she's ready. Whether we are ready or not is entirely beside the point. She had already camped out beside the bedroom door waiting for us to come up. I needed to take her outside one more time for potty activities, so I wouldn't ( Read more... )

"I've coined new words, like 'misunderstanding' and 'Hispanically.'"

-- Radio-Television Correspondents Association dinner; Washington, D.C.; March 29, 2001

Actually, Doofus, misunderstanding has been around for a while. You did coin misunderestimating though. And you've added whole new levels of meaning to words such as incompetent, incapable, ( Read more... )

"People say, How can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil? You can do so by mentoring a child, by going into a shut-in's house and say, 'I love you.'"

--Washington D.C., September 19, 2002

So, that's all it takes to fight evil? Mentoring a child and visiting the elderly? Would be a hell of a lot cheaper than the $5 billion a ( Read more... )