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…
If Jesus were around today, do you suppose he would be a copyright lawyer? I hope not, because I’m engaged in a little project that I’m almost ashamed of… I’ve been copying the text of my preferred interpretation of the Bible from an online source… with the aim of converting the plain text into a formatted e-book on my Palm OS device. I’m only copying it for my…
In some circles he’s been described as the conservative evil genius. In other circles he’s just evil. This is the political climate of the day… but I’m not here for name calling… well, maybe I’m not above a little name-calling by proxy.
The point of this morning’s verbal concoction is to analyze comments made by Karl Rove on NPR a couple days ago. My boy…
For a few weeks in 1990 there was a real-live boogey man in my life. He had a name, but at the time no one knew it. For a while everyone thought it was a mentally ill young man named Ed Humphrey, but a while later we learned his real name: Daniel Rolling.
I remember a partially deserted campus as school stared that fall. I remember ID checkpoints and off-campus housing security meetings. I…