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Last night a neighbor came over with some work shirts he wanted Donna to embroider. We asked him how things were going with his heating & air conditioning business. He told us business was great. With all the new green energy tax credits available to consumers, he’d been selling a lot of solar-powered water heaters. […]
From Wikipedia: The “Powell Doctrine” is a journalist-created term, named after General Colin Powell in the run-up to the 1990-1991 Gulf War . . . The Powell Doctrine states that a list of questions all have to be answered affirmatively before military action is taken by the United States: Is a vital national security interest […]
In its last years, West Berliners covered the Wall (which came down 20 years ago today) with paint, political statements, street art, and graffiti. Many Americans, when they picture the Berlin Wall, see it in color. That’s not what I remember. Both times I saw the Wall, it was forbiddingly gray. In 1966, Donna and […]
Photos from same: Our friend Mary Ann put on a birthday dinner for me and our guest Rudy, who was visiting from Las Vegas. I recently turned 63 and Rudy’s about to turn 72. Unfortunately, Mary Ann stepped out of the frame to take this photo, so I’ll stick a photo with her in it […]
I would never respond to one of those Nigerian Ivory Coast 419 scams, but make it look vaguely Facebookish and I’m your boy, Hamed! Just put that Ten Million Five hundred Thousand United State of American Dollars in my account, baby! Hello Paul Woodford You have a friend request Hamed Katanga “hamedkatanga” has invited you to […]
Received tonight: From: “Imf Confirmation” To: Sent: 11/06/2009 9:50 PM Subject: Outstanding Payments located to the CITI BANK OF LONDON. Mr. Virgle Lee Samples who told us that he is your next of kin and that you died in a car accident last week. He has also submitted his account for us to transfer the […]
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From Newsweek (Oct 21, 2009): How the Media Treat Murder: Why isn’t the story of several missing women in North Carolina getting attention? It’s an old problem . . . missing or dead white women get breathless, coast-to-coast coverage; missing or dead black or Hispanic women get 12 seconds on local TV. If they’re prostitutes […]