Have you ever heard of the Animal Rescue Site? How about the Breast Cancer Site? These are two of several great "click to donate" charities whose premise is simple: visit the websites once a day, click the "donate" button, and with that simple act, you have helped to support and donate to these great causes. There's nothing to download, no ( Read more... )

"We have to fight for and take care of each other."-Stephanie Sinclair, photographer

(Also, wow, I haven't been around much lately. Aiming to change that.)

"We are in the red zone, we've got to punch it through."

I'm really surprised Kenny Loggins didn't appear onstage at that moment with an acoustic guitar for a rousing rendition of Danger Zone. It would have been so apropos.

Dr. Seuss, by way of a Trader Joe's receipt: "I like nonsense. It wakes up the brain cells."

I wasn't sure whether to laugh or applaud when I heard this one, so I ended up doing both. Texas woman attacks would-be intruders with billiard balls from her rooftop. That's the spirit, lob 'em harder! She's lucky they weren't armed, and they're lucky she couldn't find the arrows for her crossbow! (There's a William Tell joke somewhere in there ( Read more... )

If that whole do unto others thing means you treat people as you want to be treated, does that also mean that the woman who attacked a clothing store clerk with a crowbar wants to be smacked with a crowbar, too? Because that seems pretty fair to me. Then again, maybe that's just me.

Several days back, it went through the news that Alec Baldwin was 'considering' a political run, if for no other reason than to butt heads with Joseph Lieberman. They quoted a Playboy interview, in part: "I have sometimes thought I could move to New Jersey or Connecticut and run. ... I'd love to run against Joe Lieberman. I have no use for him." ( Read more... )

In a continuation of this entry, there's a bright side to being on bedrest, believe it or not. It gave me time to study my Spanish, and I was pleased to see my comprehension improving, even if only in writing; spoken still goes way too fast for me to follow. It also gave me an excuse to find time to see some movies that have been on my list, such ( Read more... )

Hey, everyone. Hope you're all well. July has been a really crazy month, and that's why I haven't been around. I'll get to the reasons in another post soon. Until then, I'm not sure if I can catch up with all the entries made since I went off the radar early this month, so please feel free to point me in the direction of anything. Happy any ( Read more... )

Supposedly, these are from actual court transcripts, from the book Disorder in the American Courts. I've found some variations to some of these quotes, so maybe they aren't verbatim, but they're good for a giggle, at least ( Read more... )