Sagittarius Horoscope for week of June 14, 2012Nineteenth-century Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev once called his fellow novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky a "pimple on the face of literature." But more than a hundred years after that crude dismissal, Dostoyevsky is a much more highly regarded and influential writer than Turgenev. Use this as inspiration, ( Read more... )

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of November 10, 2011 In Mongolia there's a famous fossil of two dinosaurs locked in mortal combat. Forever frozen in time, a Velociraptor is clawing a Protoceratops, which in turn is biting its enemy's arm. They've been holding that pose now for, oh, 80 million years or so. I'm shoving this image in your face, ( Read more... )

I saw Aleks at the hospital a couple hours ago. He was comatose, breathing through a ventilator machine and stuck with half a dozen IV tubes. I doubt he knew I was there ( Read more... )

*) Went into Knoxville to look up Aleks and attempt to apologize for letting him down last week. He wasn't home so I left a bag of goodies on his front doorknob.

*) In my travels I visited the Barillaro Speed Emporium garage, but it didn't look like anybody was there either...I'll go back on Saturday ( Read more... )

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of December 11, 2008There are 300,000 surveillance cameras set up all over the city of Beijing, spying constantly on its citizens. London, a supposed bastion of democracy, has 500,000 such cameras. I highly recommend you don't visit either place in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. It's crucial for you to avoid ( Read more... )

And I hope muskrat_john gets wind of the idea...

With the recriminations about the fatal skirmish in Afganistan going through the motions here, I see a U.S. Army General in front of the press corps cameras like former National Football League head coach Dennis Green:

"The Taliban are who we thought they were--and we let 'em off the hook!"Sums up my feelings ( Read more... )

All of a sudden, I feel the need to vent about guilt trips. Just a little while ago, we were listening to Garrison Keillor's radio show, and they had a skit on in their long running series about a man named Duane and his clingy mother. Well, in this episode she was laying on the usual guilt trips and I turned off the radio because I no longer ( Read more... )