here's a situation from a live game at foxwoods. what's your ruling ( Read more... )

I came to know this song because it had upset my daughter Abby. She came home from school, telling me that they sang a mean song in music and described the song for me. She heard the teacher sing it, became upset and excused herself from class so that she wouldn't have to participate. I'm proud of her for handling it that way ( Read more... )

Are you familiar with this nursery rhyme?

I don't want to go to Mexico
No more, more, more.

There's a big fat policeman
At my door, door, door.

He grabbed me by the collar,
He made me pay a dollar,

I don't want to go to Mexico
No more, more, more.Would you allow your kids to sing it? How would you feel if it was taught to your kids by another ( Read more... )

I got a phone call last night from the lawn care company ( Read more... )

here is an elegant presentation on the philosophy of liberty from the International Society for Individual Liberty. spread the word!

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ooh ooh. j & i just had dinner at a little local joint called the wood 'n tap tonight and on the way in i spotted a poster for, omg, counting crows in concert. here, like, aug. 18th soon. wow, instantly i feel like a teenager. i just love (old) cc and have never seen them live. the funny part is (well not ha ha funny) i've checked their website ( Read more... )

after the kids returned from football & cheerleading practice tonight they wanted to sit and watch tv for a few minutes while they finished their ice cream and berries. "can we watch double dare?" uh, okay.

many of you are probably familiar with double dare. we were watching the family version, with 2 teams comprised of 2 adults and (presumably ( Read more... )

back from vegas. i wasn't going to play any wsop events on this trip, but that was because i didn't know that there was a 3k limit event. i didn't have any interesting situations come up nor did i make many hands, so it was pretty boring. my table draw was fine, minh ly was to my immediate left and he kept trying to give me chips but failed ( Read more... )

This is a very important time and your urgent action is necessary. In spite of our ongoing efforts, we continue to have problems. In retrospect, our prior work was only half-hearted. We had taken a myopic view, looking only at one piece of the problem puzzle at a time. Obviously our work in creating many new pieces of legislation has helped ( Read more... )

Flipping through a nursing "career guide" I glimpse an ad for (Hollywood) Upstairs Medical College, which prompts a page flip-back to, err, (SUNY) Upstate Medical University. heh.