My sitemeter graphic looks like I’m giving someone the finger.  Had a big boost thanks to KurtP and Brigid earlier this week…. And yes I know I’m being grade school about it.  Sue me, I laugh at farts too. Continue reading

Beginning this fall, students in Indiana will no longer have to learn how to write in cursive.  Indiana state ‘education’ officials have decided that cursive is now passe and that “computers and web books have made cursive a relic of the past”.  Local districts can still be oh so ten minutes ago and teach cursive… Continue reading

I can’t believe it took me so long to discover Adele (Himself turned me on to her music). Continue reading

Look folks, it’s simple supply and demand and market overload.  The more folks you force through the higher education system, the more folks you have with degrees (educational quality on these degree factories, which include the Ivys, is a post for a different day).  What happens then is that jobs that used to need a… Continue reading

I was just commenting about this study and low and behold, Low Dog on the Totem Pole has an entire post, plus a link.  I got a 32/33 or 96.97%, although I waffled on two other questions.  It is interesting that there were quite a few questions on economics and such that many folks could… Continue reading

Peter Falk was a unique actor with a style all his own.  In tribute: As Sam Diamond in Murder by Death: As the Grandfather in The Princess Bride: Continue reading

There is a fantastic article by William Deresiewicz that starts with his epiphany moment:  that he could not find common ground to talk to a man who came to fix his plumbing.  He’s an Ivy Leaguer, start to finish, and the one thing that the Ivy League does is insulate you from ideas and people… Continue reading

Had a fantastic weekend with Brigid (who along with Barkley) came up for a weekend to visit with Himself and me.  There was laughter, pork roast done on the rotisserie on the grill, range time, and a trip to the winery with the Og family. There was also horror-movie churches, fishing for puppehs, and great… Continue reading

I know that I’ve been blogging on the subject of personal responsibility a lot.  Not playing the victim card.  Stepping up and not blaming others for your lot in life.  Pulling up your big boy underoos or big girl panties and getting on with it. But then it comes, literally, to our front door.  D.A.N.… Continue reading

So Obama gave a speech on getting the heck out of Afghanistan sometime in the next 3 years or so with the first wave bringing troop levels down to where he brought them to in 2009.  I personally waited for the speech transcript to go up on line because I honestly can’t listen to the… Continue reading