So, I like to read through all the major US news outlets to try to decipher past the various biases they have to get some semblance of truth. Today I saw an article about how the Pope is encouraging people to have fewer children so as to reduce the strain on the planet's resources ( Read more... )

My heart really does go out to the French. I remember that numb feeling upon realizing we were being attacked by terrorists on 9/11. Yes, the scale is smaller, but that does not lessen the pain of feeling so helpless and vulnerable in your country, some place you should feel safe ( Read more... )

For those not in the US (since I presume Europeans are getting coverage of real news like the Syrian refugee crisis), it was recently ruled that there is no constitutional reason why homosexuals cannot marry and the Supreme Court declared it perfectly legal. Now there are those who profess to be Christian who claim it is ruining the sanctity of ( Read more... )

This is set about 4 years before A New Hope and it hit me: none of these characters are likely to survive that long. They just can't. I mean if Ahsoka or Kanan or even Ezra were still active members of the Rebel Alliance when Luke was there, he would have gotten in touch with them as they would be Jedi survivors who could have helped teach him ( Read more... )

I'll admit, I was a little skeptical about this show in the beginning. Yes, I know that Disney has done a great job with the Marvel franchise and I'm really looking forward to the new SW movies. I also know that Clone Wars was very well done and not a straight kids cartoon. For me, it had to do with the intial marketing (which I will admit was ( Read more... )

This is a store I generally despise for the way they have bullied the supply chain into meeting their demands, and IMO has led to a severe degredation in quality of small electronics and to a degree larger ones as well. They also treat their employees with dirt and do all they can to avoid giving someone enough hours to warrant benefits or say, ( Read more... )

So, with J deployed to Pensacola, FL, I took the kids to Florida this summer, by car from California, with the help of my mom. All in all, it hasn't been too bad considering I'm traveling with a 4 and 8 year old who live to annoy each other. We survived 6 days of WDW and 2 of Universal Studios, a trip to the Space Center and various historic sites ( Read more... )

So I finally got around to finishing up Agent Carter (it's really hard to watch TV shows with kids around, either because said show is not age appropriate or the kids won't leave you alone long enough to watch 5 minutes at a time). I was thoroughly impressed, especially with the epilogue clip. We definitely need another series. There is so much ( Read more... )

So, here we are more than a year and a half out from election and we already have people throwing their hats in the ring. I know that primaries start in I think Feb, nope strike that January, but that's still freaking 8 months away people! (For foreign folks each state has a primary election, there are some dates that have multiple states, but due ( Read more... )

Okay, we have all heard about bridezillas and this is definitely one of those top moments. The woman in the article freaked out when she received 2 different doily patterns to send with her invites. First off (and I don't have a large coiterie of friends and don't have to deal with wedding stuff), I've never even heard of this trend of wrapping ( Read more... )