I haven’t had a good night of election returns in ten years. The last decade has been the fuel of my political cynicism. This is why I’ll be waiting two years for the other shoe to drop. I’ve heard a couple of smart people say that the Democrats didn’t win so much as the GOP lost. I agree, in part… the GOP may have done EVERYTHING wrong leading up to this election…
Much has happened in the world these last two days… and I’ve been oblivious to all of them. I’ve been a U.S. politics junkie for the last 36 hours. Much has happened in U.S. politics, but the most striking thing to me has been the Rumsfeld thumpin’.
It’s been called a well kept secret… suggesting that it’s been in the works for the last couple of weeks.
I decided not to reply to an email I received recently. I really, REALLY wanted to… but I thought better of it. However, for the sake of catharsis, I’ve decided to post it here (not to mention I didn’t want to waste all of this research and typing):
First, the email I received:
This makes me kinda sad for todays generation!
Those Born 1930-1979!
TO ALL THE KIDSWHO SURVIVED the…
I always felt a little odd when I heard a celebrity plugging their favorite charity. Maybe I just have a hard time believing the sincerity of someone who looks like they’re dressing for a part in a in a Stanley Kubrick movie.
Now I hear that Mr. Sunglasses himself (when you’re cool the sun shines on you 24 hours a day) has engaged in a little good old fashioned hypocrisy. I’m…
Having kids is a lesson in equal opportunity, taken to extremes. Take this evening (please). First, Adam is happy with his bowl of Crock-Pot special (mommy and daddy’s diner of choice). Enter Beth, with her bowl of specially prepared, left-over Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. Sooner than you can say, “mommy, mommy,” Adam was out of his chair in search of greener pastures.
Since we…
My first mistake every fall is buying Halloween candy that I like. It’s never a sure thing that we’ll have any left when the last Trick-or-Treater comes by the house… with me going through the candy like an 80’s rock band went through hair spray. On Halloween night you can find me in my recliner, looking like some caricature of good ‘ole fashioned American Excess.
There was a great article in the St Pete Times several months ago (11/1/2006).
The gist of the article was that a couple of right-wing-nuts from Hernando County went off on a Muslim group that wanted to have a party at a county park. It started with a Hernando County Commissioner’s wife writing a letter to the editor of the St Pete Times, the Times making a follow-up call for comment, and…
With two October ticks left on the calendar I’m going to take a terrible chance. So far the month of October has been a budgetary success. It marks the first full month of fiscal restraint and we’ve done better than I expected. By all estimates we’re going to come in under budget, with a couple of key fixed expense categories under historical averages. The big one is groceries…
In the halcyon days of the 109th Congress, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 was passed. Believe it or not this bill does more than just cut taxes and increase federal spending. It also makes many of your appliances with a built-in clock obsolete.
How does a Federal Energy bill accomplish this feat? Elementary dear reader… it changes the effective dates for daylight savings time starting in…