Midwest Chick's Place

I saw an article here by Reince Priebus, the head of the totally useless and disconnected RNC, and he was calling for Eric Holder’s resignation over Fast and Furious. But really?? If he resigns, he keeps his pension and gets to go on to do more damage to the term ‘justice’. He should be impeached… Continue reading

Driving in to work this morning, I notice a Mazerti wanting to get into my lane. So I pull back a couple of car lengths to give him some room. And he very slowly pulls over and then promptly slows down. Feeling a bit put upon, when the road opened up again, I took the… Continue reading

And it’s kind of funny that the media is salivating over a Romney win and are saying that it’s such a ‘vote of confidence’ for him and a vote against Gringrich.  The thing that no one seems to be mentioning though is that most of Florida now consists of transplanted NorthEasterners.  So when they talk… Continue reading

One of my favorite stories to tell is when a friend from England came over to visit.  I was doing some laundry and offered to throw his pants into the wash with my jeans.  Only after I saw his look of horror did I realize that we were having a language disconnect and corrected myself… Continue reading

Himself and I have quite the full weekend (yes, firearms are involved) so you get a couple of excerpts from one of my favorite movies: Continue reading

We had a late Christmas present today–lunch with Brigid.  Oh yeah, there were gifts too.  You can read here what Himself and I came up with for Brigid–a perfume that will also work as an anti-jihadist repellant and various bits of lemony goodness, plus some homemade cayenne dark chocolate fudge.  What she didn’t mention is… Continue reading

Go to The Feral Irishman for the video here.  Needs a depilatory but certainly has it goin’ on. Continue reading

I am a hot food freak. I don’t know why I’ve developed a superhuman tolerance to peppers (maybe because my biological father smoked a couple of packs a day and put Tabasco, peppers, and cayenne on everything), I don’t know for sure.  I also like dark chocolate–a lot–and have purchased just about every ‘mexican chocolate’-type… Continue reading

I don’t understand why Demi Moore insists that her first name is deh-mee (accent on the meeeee) or how Cheech Marin (Mare – in) became Cheech Mar-een on the new show Rob.   *sigh*  Continue reading

Via Inside Higher Ed News:  The US Department of Education did a study on the racial component of student loan borrowers and the possible effect on the payback rates for student loans, based on race. However, they ‘accidentally’ left out black students. In a study about race. And the student loan payback rates, by race.… Continue reading