"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." —Mark Twain
Fighting for hearts and minds
It’s Monday, time for another mixed bag of topics I want to address before I forget about them, but which taken alone don’t rate blog posts of their own. ——————– My daughter switched from cigarettes to e-cigarettes about a year ago. We never let her smoke in our house, but one day I walked into […]
Last night on Twitter someone linked to a National Review Online editorial about Nelson Mandela. I know better than to scroll down to reader comments on right-wing sites, but I did. I wanted to burn my eyes out afterward. Mandela was a saboteur and a terrorist. He was a violent revolutionary. Agreed. So too were […]
I should be working on our annual Christmas letter. Instead, I’m blogging. Annual Christmas letter. How redundant. Christmas is an annual event, no? Let’s just agree to call it our annual letter. Or, Fox News be damned, our Xmas letter. Speaking of, the TVs at the gym were all set to Fox News this morning. I […]
Seriously, if they don’t fire Richard Cohen after this, they might as well ask for Obama’s birth certificate and endorse the Tea Party.
It’s a happy bottom Halloween for me!
Today’s post title and accompanying bag photo is obscure, so I’d better explain it. Here’s what it says on the bag: Motorcycle Accident – m4w – 27 (Kings Hwy) [date/time] Reply to This Post I was on a motorcycle and we got into an accident this morning. I think you are really cute and I’m sorry […]
Last week a few friends and some lefty bloggers I follow fell for a bogus article about Rush Limbaugh calling soldiers welfare queens who’ve gotten used to having everything handed to them. Hey, I fell for it too, because I’ve said again and again that at some point the Orcs* are going to turn against […]
One of the things I strive to do is to keep calm and carry on. But oh, it’s hard, with all the stupidity and racism loose in the land. And I can’t decide which is the chicken and which is the egg, stupidity or racism. Maybe they’re the same thing. When racists went after Obama […]