Thursday Takes
Donna’s always coming up with ingenious ways to fix things and make them better. In another life, she’d have been an engineer. Wait. She’s an engineer in this life, minus the degree.
"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." —Mark Twain
Our other children
Donna’s always coming up with ingenious ways to fix things and make them better. In another life, she’d have been an engineer. Wait. She’s an engineer in this life, minus the degree.
How hard can it be to write a damn headline? Why does the person who wrote that shit have a cushy job at a major newspaper and not me? Am I being too picky?
Can there be anything more courageous and self-sacrificing right now than guarding the perimeter of the airport in Kabul?
By the way, that disparaging stereotype about fighter pilots — big Seiko, little dick? — please don’t ask Donna. She’s likely to blurt out the truth.
Braunschweiger. I knew that stuff had to be good for something.
We’re having a proper Arizona monsoon for a change; the first to live up to its name in the 23 years we’ve lived in Tucson.
Lulu and Fritzi, at least so far, have exhibited no fascist or authoritarian leanings. Unless you count sounding Reveille before the sun comes up.
In my next life, I want to find someone who looks at me like Senator Krysten Sinema (D-AZ) looks at Republicans.