"No matter how cynical I get, I can’t keep up.” — Lily Tomlin
I’ve never liked entrapment. Not when the police do it, not when civilians do it. Not when the right does it, not when the left does it. I particularly don’t like it when people are tricked into voicing their personal, non-job-related opinions on things, then lose their jobs as a result. But you know what […]
My sisters and I grew up in a non-Mardi Gras home: Mom, like all Southern Baptists, observed Lent the whole year round; Dad, an agnostic, pretty much did whatever he wanted to do regardless of the time of year. I married a Catholic girl, but Mardi Gras wasn’t part of her family’s tradition either. Oh, […]
Someone spilled paint on the highway leading to our house and my poor daughter, driving home in the dark, didn’t see it in time to avoid it. The result was brown paint all down the left side of my car. Fortunately it proved to be latex and Polly was able, with elbow grease and a […]
A reasonably busy morning for a retired person: writing a book review, catching up with friends on Facebook, posting an entry on the hashing blog, answering email from people who want their addresses removed from a list I have nothing to do with, refilling bird feeders, replacing lightbulbs, taking out garbage, rounding up all my […]
If I had my own celebrity gossip tabloid, these are the kinds of stories it would feature. Loves Motorcycle More than Me, Wife Says: Sometime soon I’m heading out on the motorcycle, probably to Sonoita or Tombstone. Spring weather is here and we motorcyclists need to grab it while we can … pretty soon it’ll […]
Note: I put this post up yesterday and then took it down. It came across all wrong, reading as if I were calling conservatives spiteful and stupid, when in fact I think we’re all spiteful and stupid. What I was really talking about was maturity and childishness, and the pressing need for mature leadership in […]
A rainy morning in Tucson, Arizona, rarer than a pro-union guest on a Sunday morning talk show. This morning’s schedule included a group motorcycle ride to Arivaca and Tubac, but no one wants to be wet and cold so the ride’s been slipped to next Sunday. This evening’s schedule is, what else, the Oscars. It’s […]
Here’s an excellent summary of the growing power of organized book-banning groups. The internet helps us, but it helps them too! I usually limit these book-banning digests to news to from North America, but this article on international book-banning is too interesting not to share. The Perks of Being a Wallflower has been challenged again, […]