Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday Mooommmmmy!  Happy birthday to you!  And now the whole internet knows that it’s your birthday, but not how old you are! Thank you for all of the things you taught me, for your unique sense of humor, your love of animals.  I hope you have… Continue reading

I’m reposting this based on a link from SayUncle regarding Securing Your Home.  I think it’s worth revisiting.  The video is now archived but it clearly illustrates the value of securing your home.  This woman had and was able to defend herself when the intruder did make it into the house.  She had dogs that… Continue reading

Since more and more people are not traveling by air in order to avoid being sexually assaulted or irradiated by the TSA, the TSA has decided to take it to the road and the state of Tennessee is letting them.  Much like their teams in Georgia who searched folks getting OFF the train, they are… Continue reading

Apparently the Occupy Wall Street folks are shocked and disillusioned that those icky homeless people would come in and take their stuff and start fights. Of course I don’t think that folks took $5500 Macbooks to their sit-ins and protests back in the day–they didn’t take anything of value with them because at the time,… Continue reading

Cue the violins now.  If you don’t want to read my mental meanderings, check out some earlier blogposts.  You have been warned. This has been kind of an odd couple of weeks.  I talked to a friend’s husband while waiting for her to come home and he’d just lost a friend to a heart attack… Continue reading

Okay, so some moron on a plane named Ali Reza Shahsavari starts yelling “You’re all going to die!  Allahu Akbar!”  They get him off the plane and the comment from the feds goes something along the lines of ‘it’s okay, we don’t think it’s terrorism related, he’s just an asshole.’  But the part of the… Continue reading

In a study out on October 18, it seems that the Washington DC area is now the wealthiest metropolitan area in the United States.  Someone should tell the Useful Idiots a.k.a. the Occupy people that wealth is not concentrated on Wall Street–the average federal employee makes $126,000 a year.  They have now out-earned Silicon Valley–using… Continue reading

…but you’ll probably be under it, rather than on it. When Jake Tapper was recently interviewing Capt. Flawless about Operation Fast and Furious, who said:  “It’s very upsetting to me to think that somebody showed such bad judgment that they would allow something like that to happen,” he said. “And we will find out who… Continue reading

A twenty-one year old junior from Illinois State University (quick google check says he’s an ‘environmental health’ major), Sean Richards, has decided to quit school and join the Occupy Chicago protest full-time.  But riddle me this…  in the article linked above, the Occupy Chicago people have both a ‘police liaison’ and a ‘safety and security… Continue reading

The text reads  “Did we do anything in the 1980’s other than watch movies?”  My response:  “We went to the roller rink and skated to the tune of YMCA.  Other than that, not much.” Here’s a movie that embodies both.  I believe at the time, one critic referred to it as “Terpsichore on Roller Skates”. Continue reading