If you haven't seen this - you should. I'm surprised that she's just now being discovered.

There's something to be said about having young kids around at Christmas. I think something special gets lost as you get older. Presents don't have that wonder they use to when you were a child. The something simple like a bike or a game would make you light up for days on end. Now when we pass gifts around they're in the range of $5-$25 and we're ( Read more... )

OK - I think it's about official. My relatives are more likely to die the week after Thanksgiving than at any other time of the year. My dad passed about a week after Thanksgiving back in 2000; my dad's father did the same a year later and tonight we found out that my mother's father just passed away a few hours ago. Now we wait to find out what ( Read more... )

It didn't even really take 24 hours and Pelosi has already come out and said basically - remember all those things we promised... probably not gonna happen ( Read more... )

Continuing on the earlier theme of obvious, but not so obvious things. Does anyone realize how similar Obama and McCain camps really are ( Read more... )

Well the title is play on the old saying "A Pink Elephant in the room" but this being a political post, the current season and the specific topic - I felt a Giant Panda was more appropriate ( Read more... )

A fun distraction - this one's for Greg...

Ok, The opening ceremonies were just amazing (minus the play by play call from the guys at NBC - It would have been so much more enjoyable had they not felt like every motion required a 30 minute explanation). Thankfully for the closing ceremony they only made a few comments (I guess they heard the complaints ( Read more... )

WOW. I can only imagine how much better it would have been had I not had to put up with the play by play calls by the NBC commentators. It would be like watching a play and having an annoying, loud commentator sitting next to you spoiling the production. I so hope that there is an uncut, uncommented version of the opening made available.

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