I'm a student of the human condition, and as such I did my undergrad in History, the ultimate record of th ehuman condition and irrelevancy! But  it was fun! As such, I tend to find some disparate stories oddly connected where others don't...case in point:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081218/ap_on_re_us/samaritan_protection

Wow, I guess no good deed ( Read more... )

For all my bitching, whining and snarling, my life is absolutely GREAT (yes, I truly mean that non-sarcastically). Unfortunately, another recession looming/booming/ yadda yadda yadda.....jeez. Deeply in love with someone besides myself, feeling like a Dad now, job still mine, debt is low....like my 104K these dayz.

May as well get it over with!

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http://www.john-daly.com/solar/solar.htm

One of my pet peeves is bad science, followed closely by willful exclusion of information in a lame attempt to prove a theory and create one’s fames and tenure berth…..Then there is the use of movie stars with little or no actual knowledge of an issue beyond what trend or PC movement/eddy/ blip is currently ( Read more... )

I'm currently reading John Ringo's new novel, The Last Centurion.

I love a book where natural selection trumps dogmatism and pragmatic realists save the day, as they actually always do and have done in every society and in every age of Mankind.

A)     People who have been tagged must write their answers on their blogs & replace any question that they dislike with a new question formulated by themselves.

B) Tag 6 people to do this quiz. These people must state who they were tagged by & cannot tag the person whom they were tagged by. Continue this game by sending it to other people.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20081107/us_time/shouldkidsbeabletograduateafter10thgrade

When I was a kid, I had a lot of European pen pals, their letters arriving scrawled on almost weightless translucent paper to save postal costs, mine to them on 3 ring notebook paper. We discussed many subjects, as kids curious about each others country and ( Read more... )

 Went over to dinner Gwynubis’s for dinner last night with my brother for some very tasty beef stew, lots of laughs and a movie at the Cheapies, Tropic Thunder. More laughter and a large bag of popcorn later, my brother and I are eating leftover pizza and watching the last vestages of both the elections, and the conservative era started by Ronald ( Read more... )

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3icc3b73373ecfd4eb9f18986ffde9fe61

DOH! I AM a closet geek.....Seriously though, this is an excellent series and actually inspired me to write stories and books too. I just sucketh at the craft,whereas the writer of this series is quite excellent.

A quick comment on Sacred Cows, both figurative and implied….my parents raised my brothers and I that outside patriotism, the Catholic Church and money matters, there were none. Obviously wrong and myoptic but kids are blank slates waiting to be doodled on! Enter the modern world with its manifold pressures and recreational oppurtunies, to say ( Read more... )

I don’t like either one of these guys. One is Liberal. The other is a Neo-Conservative. Niether has the wide perspective needed to guide us out of the hole we’ve dug for ourselves.

But don’t worry. I did one for each of these clowns and their laughable “policies”.

OBAMA RE-DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH PLAN

Today on my way to lunch I passed a homeless ( Read more... )