"When I do not want to say things in real life I often say them here." — Mimi Smartypants
Donna and I have now stayed in one place longer than either of us ever stayed anywhere before: nearly 14 years in Tucson; nearly 13 years in the same house. Not bragging … almost any normal American (one who did not grow up in a military or transient family, that is) can easily beat our […]
Found in my email inbox this morning. A somewhat fresher approach than most, I must say! Compliments of the season The reason why you have not receive your payment after all the legal approval and payment authorization in your name is because of your greedy friend and the Remittance Director. Both of them are in […]
Last weekend we bumped into a friend we hadn’t seen in a couple of years. She had news. R________, a guidance counselor at a local high school, was fired a couple of months ago … along with the rest of the school’s faculty and staff. And get what the school district calls this mass firing: […]
From an ABC news article: Sen. John Kyl, R-Ariz., repeated a Republican argument today that abortions are “well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.” He later clarified that the statistic, which is inaccurate, was “not intended to be a factual statement.” Well, good. We all know what’s going on, and it’s about time […]
“People do not give it credence that a 14-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father’s blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day. I was just 14 years of age when a coward going by the […]
“You know, you know, a friend of mine a while back broke his hand and put it in a cast. Very next day, he falls, protects his bad hand, and he breaks his good one. So he breaks it too, you know. So, now he’s got two busted flippers. So, I says to him: ‘Creighton,’ […]
Here are a few headlines from recent days: Out of the sack, cat! Sleeping with pets carries disease risk Letting sleeping dogs lie in your bed can kill you Sleeping next to pets could be harmful, study says Don’t sleep with your pet, you may catch something (possibly bubonic plague) Sleeping with pets exposes owners […]
It was enormously disappointing to watch Jon Stewart fluffing Mau Mau Mike Huckabee on Wednesday’s Daily Show. Oh, Stewart gently nibbled at him about his support for right-wing fundamentalist David Barton, but he didn’t challenge any of his evasive answers. He didn’t mention Huckabee’s advocacy of religious indoctrination at gunpoint, nor did he bring up […]