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Giving points where they are deserved, Sen. Charbonneau is helping bring back the Fourth Amendment to the State of Indiana. Senate Bill #1 has passed the Senate and is heading to the House. As the Senator said: “Since the Neanderthal men were roamining the earth it’s kind of an understood rule that you don’t mess… Continue reading

Me:  Most of the best chefs tend to be men.  Except for Julia Child. Himself:  She was bad-ass. Also….  why do the best stories start with “We didn’t figure that…”  usually followed by an anecdote about explosions?  It’s akin to “Hey y’all, hold my beer and watch this!” but with better endings. Continue reading

I’m not sure what to call it, but I think the new sign that a person is losing an argument is when they use the phrase ‘coded racism‘.  Calling someone Hitler is, like, so 15 minutes ago…..   Continue reading

I go to yoga at least once a week and like it–going on year two, actually.  My teacher is focused on the physical (not freaky) aspects of it.  There have been times when I’ve limped home feeling like a tube of toothpaste that’s just been squeezed by the Jolly Green Giant.  Apparently a gentleman in… Continue reading

So he bursts into song at the Apollo during a fundraiser.  I guess he’s singing for his (future) suppers (hopefully he’ll be singing back in Chicago come this time next year). Next maybe he’ll try to match the skills of Gregory Hines instead of Al Green.  Of course NPR has to wax rhapsodic about the… Continue reading

Paul Hsieh has a post at pjmedia titled “SOPA, Guns, and Frredom; You do not protect honest nonlinear content producers from pirates by breaking the Internet forthe innocent”. This article compares gunlaws to SOPA because they “both punish the innocent for a guilty few.” And he has a great point and writes briefly about other… Continue reading

<a href="http:// Via: http://www.bookwormroom.com/”>Bookworm Room a little article from 1949. Back then I don’t think they could imagine the world of hurt the economy would be in now. I don’t think they would have thought that Republicans would go big government either. Still oddly prescient… Continue reading

Apparently the folks over at the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence don’t seem to understand what myself and about one hundred gun bloggers did on January 8, 2012. They wanted people to light a candle “in memory of the victims of gun violence”. We chose to take it a bit further. I lit my candle… Continue reading

Some folks were having problems commenting on this (thanks for the heads-up Brigid), so I just put it into a new post. Updating this:  Via Feral Irishman, Jenyne Butterfly, pole dancer.  This woman deserves an Olympic spot.  What she does is more spectacular and shows greater strength even than the guys doing the rings.  Plus… Continue reading

Latest in my ironic existence:  I spend eleventy-million hours alphabetizing our library by author and title within author.  And the one book I want, I absolutely can’t find anywhere so I will probably have to order another one since it’s the middle book of a series.  And because this has put me in unusual frame… Continue reading