I've noticed lately that the big fashion for women these days is to dress like little girls. It's a cute look. Knee socks, schoolgirl skirts, mary-jane shoes. What's not to like ( Read more... )

Two college kids up in Tampa thought it might be interesting to crawl inside an 8-foot helium balloon. Yep. Found 'em with their feet sticking out the next morning. STOOOOOPID! I wonder what they were majoring in?http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/04/balloon.

So there he was. Poor bastard. He was on his way down from the summit of Mt. Everest in Nepal and his oxygen equipment malfunctioned. Huddled and dying under a rock ledge at 28,000 feet, 40+ hikers walked past him to get to the summit. None were willing to forgo reaching the summit to save this man's life. Read more... )

So you know that I spend a considerable part of my day hiking about the upper Everglades brush country with a GPS and a map. And you also know that alligators have killed three people here in South Florida in the last week... I have also posted pictures of some of the alligators I see ALMOST EVERY DAY! I thought "Chompy" was harmless, but it ( Read more... )

I want to be a pirate and sail all over town ( Read more... )

Karl Rove gave a speech at the American Enterprise Institute this morning where he said the president's approval rating was not the issue. His "likability" numbers are still high ( Read more... )

Do you remember way back in 2000, when the Bush Presidency was young, and Conservative Republicans just couldn't get enough of Dubya and his sexy wink? And Dick Cheney invited all these oil company executives in to write the new energy, environmental, and tax regulations? Remember that? And how Sierra Club, and the AP, and other good-government ( Read more... )

work, work, work. That's all I do. But I have lots of friends to keep me company at work:


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I never know what to say when I should be saying it. And I spend the whole rest of my day rehearsing what I should have said, just in case I should ever be in the position to say it again.

So if you should see an uncommonly handsome man talking to himself (no borg phone on THIS ear), repeating some witty line over and over....

it's probably me.

Twenty years ago next week the Number 4 Reactor at Chernobyl exploded. The naturally unstable cesium/uranium reaction generated so much heat that the reactive metals caught fire. The radioactive materials were actually burning and belching out radioactive smoke. The potential death toll was unspeakably huge. The only way to prevent mass death ( Read more... )