"No matter how cynical I get, I can’t keep up.” — Lily Tomlin
When you have company it’s hard to make time for peripheral activities like blogging. But we did take time to fill out our ballots and mail them in, allowing us to smugly state: we voted. Control of congress will go to the party with the most energized voters. We’re energized. We hope you are too. […]
When you ride over a nail on a motorcycle, the front tire flips it pointy-end up, perfectly positioned to penetrate the rear tire. I nailed a rear tire about a month ago, and a good friend loaned me a nearly-new tire to replace it. I hadn’t ridden more than 20 miles on the replacement tire when […]
You wouldn’t know it, but I’ve been pretty busy with this blog, learning WordPress and tweaking the format. Oh, and reconstructing my other blog from scratch after screwing up the original (soon to be abandoned). But a blogging dearth is a blogging dearth, and I’ll try to make up for it. I promise.
I posted this to another blog on May 16, 2006, right after a futile attempt to vote in an Arizona special election. This voter ID shit isn’t about keeping illegal aliens from voting. It’s about keeping minorities, the elderly, and the poor from voting (pdf file) – in a word, Democrats. And today, I am one happy Democrat! […]
You want to whinge about living in a politically correct society? Boys, you should live in Norway! Credit where credit’s due: Boing Boing.
Okay, it’s pressure cookin’, but no pressure to prepare. And it’s real down-home comfort food, like mama used to make. Pressure Cooker Pot Roast Ingredients 1 tbs olive or vegetable oil 3 lb pot roast salt & pepper, to taste 3 cups beef stock 1 lb small redskin potatos (cleaned but not peeled) 2 medium carrots, cut […]
Donna turned 60 on May 23rd; I’ll turn 60 October 31st. We’re first-year baby boomers. That means we’re the snout of the pig in the python, which is a good thing seeing as how we stand a better chance of reclaiming the money we paid into Social Security than boomers at the tail. Turning 40 didn’t […]
Pathetic. Half a month since my last post. I really have to get in more. My leg quit hurting three or four days ago. The doc said to stay active, and I have – scouting trail for an upcoming run, taking long bike rides, walking the dog. Later today we’ll go on a three- to […]