"When I do not want to say things in real life I often say them here." — Mimi Smartypants
The form of the destructor
I think it only fair that bloggers read other blogger’s blogs, and I’m nothing if not fair. Too fair, because sometimes I read things I’d rather not have read. Like this, from a blog called The View Through the Windshield, written by a charming fellow named Joe Sherlock: While I have problems with Romney’s positions on issues […]
Sometimes I wonder where CNN went. Remember how great CNN’s news coverage was, back in the day? Now, in my time zone, it seems as if all you can find on CNN during prime time is celebrity chitchat and tabloid crime gossip. But one night last weekend I stayed up late. Ooh, what’s this? CNN Newsroom at […]
I feel like kvetching. How about you? Is National Public Radio going corporate? Ever since NPR started airing commercials (although they call them “sponsor notices”), their talk shows have become noticably Fair & Balanced™. I’m thinking specifically about the Diane Rehm Show, where, whenever she discusses politics or national policy, her guest list now invariably includes […]
. . . but have you seen this commercial yet? Jesus. I remember how shocked Donna and I were when we saw our first Ultra Brite commercial . . . remember the toothpaste that gave your mouth “sex appeal”? That was in the late 60s or early 70s, back when you couldn’t say the word […]
Everybody’s seen Easy Rider, right? So Donna and I were flipping through channels the other night, and we caught the last half hour of Easy Rider on American Movie Classics. Something struck me as really odd, and I’m wondering if anyone else saw the same thing. There’s Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and the two prostitutes in […]
Driving around Tucson, I see things that make me think. I thought I’d share some of them with you. This is a crazy guy’s house. He lives in what would be, if it weren’t for him, a nice neighborhood. According to one homeowner I talked to, city police won’t cite the fellow because the subdivision is county, […]
Have I mentioned that my wife works part time at a local gun shop? Well, she does, and that’s how we came to be invited to an Arizona Friends of the National Rifle Association auction and banquet. One of the speakers was Scott O’Grady, the USAF Reserve F-16 pilot who was shot down over Bosnia in […]
Here’s an interesting article about supermarkets adopting “single line” policies. The idea is that customers, rather than lining up at individual cash registers, get in one long line instead; when customers reach the head of the line they go straight to whichever cash register is empty. Been there, done that. In the early 1980s the wife of General […]