Brooks Was Here
. . .But he decided not to stay. James Whitmore graduated today. Congratulations Jim. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KmUZ4nQ-6k[/youtube] James Whitmore October 1, 1921 – February 6, 2009
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A Higher Gear
“The intellectual factors of religion are important, but their overdevelopment is likewise sometimes very handicapping and embarrassing.” — The Urantia Book In a thrift store recently I saw a framed sign for sale. I didn’t buy it, but remembered it. It said: Life is a test. It is only a test. If it had …
NEVER FORGET.
Now that Bush the War Criminal President has been sequestered behind the federally funded gate on the dead end street in Preston Hollow or whatever the fuck the place is called, conservative revisionists are hard at work trying to erase the reality of the last eight years. And the good toads who were paid to wrap Teh Chimp in pleasing graphics during his campaigns hate to see their good gravy dry up, so they’re marketing a bunch of useless crap to squeeze whatever blood they can out of the 22 percenters who are teh stoopid enough to buy it.
Facing The Past and The Future
In Roman mythology the deity Janus is represented as having two faces, one looking forward, one backward. He presides over doors, and beginnings. President Obama has said he is focused on the future, that America must move forward. But America is also looking for justice, and that means looking into the past as well. It makes sense that our new …
Teh Dishwasher Cometh (Update)
No time for blogging today! as our good friend Doctor Zaius says, because we’re making a hole for a dishwasher in the bunkhouse. Our little bungalow used to be the bunkhouse for a few farmhands. They were probably grateful for the old Norge refrigerator and the gas stove, along with the flush toilet. But as much as we love the …
I Solemnly Swear. . .
WASHINGTON — Everything was going swimmingly. Joe the Biden had been sworn in, and then the lovely Dianne Feinstein introduced Chief Justice of the United Staes, John D. Roberts. Now, you’d think a guy like Roberts, who’s had a couple a whacky seizures would realize the serviceability of a back-up plan— at all times. Especially when you were going to …
Bush Bids Adieu (Update)
Bush’s legacy: Food for the Crows In my post last week titled Bush Bids Adieu, I wrote: Let me address a point I haven’t heard discussed yet. Seems I recall that al-Qaeda statement that their post-9/11 strategy was twofold: to hurt the US where it would count the most, its economy; and, after Bush’s invasion of Iraq, to punish its …
