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An Evening with the Gun Nuts
In a previous post I mentioned our upcoming Saturday night date: dinner at a National Rifle Association auction. I wanted to wear my ACLU member pin but couldn’t find it. I did my homework, though, and was prepared to argue the case for protecting all ten amendments in the Bill of Rights, not just the […]
Friday Grab Bag
Good lord, yesterday’s post was quite the whinge. I need to work on feeling less insecure, which is the same thing as saying I need a swift kick in the ass. I blame my dog. Schatzi’s still down in the dumps, and so, by extension, am I. She’s listless, slow, barely interested in things that […]
My Invisible Blog
If you mouse over the blogroll links on the left sidebar of this blog, comments appear. Roll your mouse over the link to Bike Snob NYC, for example, and you get this: “A smug bicyclist makes fun of smug bicyclists.” So anyway, I have a friend who reads my blog. I know this because he […]
Tuesday Blahs & August Doldrums
Our dachshund Schatzi has been listless and sleepy the last two days, not her normal frisky self. All bodily functions seem normal, she’s eating, her nose feels cool and wet … in short, we don’t have any idea what’s wrong with her. If only she could tell us, right? If the pup doesn’t perk up […]
You Can’t Read That! Banned Book Review: Crank
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. From my last You Can’t Read That! post: Apparently it’s a widely-held belief in anti-gay Christian conservative circles that the government — particularly the jack-booted thugs who run public libraries and schools — foists pro-gay literature on young readers while […]
Friday Grab Bag: Gridlock, Gas Gauges, Germans
Blog neglect again? By way of lame excuses, I’ve been busy with historical articles for my hashing blog and working on recipes for my cooking blog. Fat lot of good that does you, dear Paul’s Thing reader, right? I’ll try to make up for it with some random Friday observations. ——————– I may not drink […]
Not Exactly What I First Thought
Who wouldn’t be outraged to hear that an Arkansas high school principal decided not to name a black girl valedictorian even though she’d earned the highest grade point average in her graduating class? I was, but then I read this article, where a small detail popped out right at the end: the student was also […]