"You're so stupid," said Humann, "you're gonna buy me a steak dinner ( Read more... )

Today I was listening to NPR, and Talk of the Nation did a segment on people who are starting important aspects of their lives over -- job, living situation, etc. -- due to suddenly finding themselves in dire economic circumstances. They kept referring to this as "pressing the reset button ( Read more... )

Two things occur in my working life that allow me to play tourist: one is delivering freight late on a Friday afternoon, which usually results in me sitting and waiting for my next load until Monday morning; the second is running out of my federally-mandated hours of service, which requires me to refrain from operating my vehicle for a minimum of ( Read more... )

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Wednesday imposed $500,000 caps on senior executive pay for the most distressed financial institutions receiving federal bailout money, saying Americans are upset with "executives being rewarded for failure."
This is news that gives me great cheer, as it indicates that our new Preznit (who is largely an unknown ( Read more... )

There's been a lot of happy talk lately about the election of our new Preznit representing a sort of completion of the civil rights movement. I travel all over the country and hear an awful lot of discourse among common working folk on a daily basis, and I must say I have noticed a sort of sea-change in America since the election. Aside from a ( Read more... )

Apparently, Rush Limbaugh played a parody song entitled 'Barack the Magic Negro' on his radio show last week, and the subsequent reaction/counterreaction has really got me boggled. There are so many layers to what happened, and I think it might be worthwhile to sort of strip some of them away and see what epiphanies can be gleaned from the process ( Read more... )

I was listening to Obama's swearing-in ceremony on the radio this morning from just off the Beltway, and I noticed the Chief Justice flubbed the oath slightly. I predict: neocon pundits and propagandists are going to spend the next four to eight years harping on it, pretending it's meaningful, and even going so far as saying that Obama isn't ( Read more... )

I have this portable Coleman refrigerator that I use in the truck while roaming around the nation for weeks on end... it plugs into an automotive cigarette lighter and keeps things relatively cold (literally 'relatively': the inside is always 40 degrees colder than the ambient temperature in the truck). Without it, I would be doomed to living on ( Read more... )

So, did you hear the Preznit's speech tonight ( Read more... )

El Bosque and his Middle Kingdom mama have been on the ground in Aulde Cathay with grandma and grandpa for a few weeks now, and of all the problems I anticipated with that, not a single one has manifested itself. Our tiny tyrant behaved himself amazingly well on the very long flight, and took to his grandparents totally and immediately. He even ( Read more... )