I’ve got three movies that I would consider to be my favorites EVAH:  The Princess Bride, The Fifth Element, and Star Wars (the original untouched Han Solo shot first version).  I’m dating myself, but I saw The Princess Bride when it came out in the theaters originally–I was in high school.  So the Princess Bride… Continue reading

LabRat over at Atomic Nerds is blogging about the MSM trying to call a guy riding around in a pickup truck a racist ‘coding’.  Like no persons of color have pickup trucks or anything.  In her post she says: “Barack Obama is impossible to picture in a pickup truck, but that’s not about the color… Continue reading

Another Cinderella story in honor of Scott Brown and his victory in Massachusetts! In your face Coakley! Also, a shoutout to Evan Bayh who is already starting the blame game–you’ve been Reid and Pelosi’s lapdog all along and pointing fingers now will not keep you in that Senate seat in the fall.  You’re blaming the… Continue reading

I was listening to NPR this morning and they had a very short spot about Obama’s executive order granting amnesty for the 100,000 illegal Haitians in the US to last a period of 18 months. Amazing how a Chicago politician never changes strategy–taking advantage of a crisis to force through their agenda. Just the first… Continue reading

Ray Stevens pretty much says it like it is in this video. (ht Bookworm).  Love the last line. Continue reading

My mom called today and asked me if I’d enjoy having  a Kindle or a Nook or some other e-book reader.  I told her that, despite all other technologies that I use, I still enjoy books–the feel, the smell–being able to drop one in the tub and not have to spend $200 on a new… Continue reading

Old Grouch, in a discussion on Tam’s blog, points out that part of the problem in Haiti is that they’ve been taught nothing but dependence pretty much from the beginning.  He also aptly points out that the subsequent dictators had a habit of weeding out anyone who might be competition.  Much the same as what… Continue reading

Reading this report, the UN is calling for (primarily) US money and material support for Haiti.  Ya’know, it’s funny and not in a ha-ha kind of way that the first place the world looks is to the US for help, support, aid.  Hell’s bells, we were propping up the economies of most of the world… Continue reading

I’m not at the Indy Show but I’ve got a bunch of stuff to hopefully get organized. I’ve been thinking about Haiti and the tens of billions of dollars flowing in there that will never be seen again and, in the long run, I don’t think will change anything–just like Katrina in New Orleans.   The… Continue reading

Back a few months ago–as a matter of fact, right before Chicago seriously tanked on their bid for the Olympics, there was a video showing a student being beaten to death by his schoolmates.  Apparently what it came down to was that they had closed one high school to make it a specialty school and… Continue reading