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Apologies to the folks out there who have wondered if I fell into a dark pit, because I basically did.

During the National Skating Championship in Lincoln at the end of July, I got seriously blasted and drained by a week of 105-110F temperatures (I don’t do well in heat, and never have) and ( Read more... )

Susan and I have had a couple of small VISA cards from (BIG ANNOYING BANK) for years; I dumped one account this year because they wanted to charge an outrageous fee for keeping the account open.  Trying to pay both of them off…and yes, (BIG ANNOYING BANK) is one of the outfits that is now skinning everyone for new profits since they took a hit from ( Read more... )

Even if I were still a Republican, I think I would have been one of those people who were not terribly impressed with the ‘talent’ available that’s running for the GOP Presidential nomination.

Too many people have suddenly made major ‘conversions’ to more ‘conservative’ positions out of the blue - because they suddenly decided that their interest ( Read more... )

Highly recommend the Grauniad….er, the Guardian’s coverage on this story.   And the New York Times has been adding its bit.

My own take is that we’re just seeing the beginning of the lift-the-rock-and-see-the-bugs-scatter part of bringing down News Corp in all of its various manifestations, and ti’s going to come on like a freight train.  But we ( Read more... )

Seriously crappy, rainy weather out there; supposed to rain like heck all day and night.

Mere and Susan have been at our local rink in Lombard’s roller skating meet; getting up and out the door before 5 am is not for sissies! Both Saturday and Sunday mornings went like that, and they came back as soon as they could and and crashed/napped/ rested ( Read more... )

Back when I was young - we’ll say when I was 10, 1967 - gasoline generally cost about $0.32 per gallon.  Gas Wars would occasionally come up where there’d be a thrash over what sort of extras (glasses with a fill-up, etc.) would pull the business in - and sometimes, it was brute-force-drop-the-price.  I can remember seeing an occasional drop to say ( Read more... )

For those who didn’t get the message earlier, I caught a cold that really got going the Friday before Valentines Day.  Had to skip Capricon; Meredith went for about half the con, but I was way too sick to deal with it.  The cold  turned into a sinus infection, and then on towards bronchitis and finally pneumonia by the 18th (the day before my ( Read more... )

Sean Hannity, on his TV show:

I say why isn’t Iraq paying us back with oil, and paying every American family and their soldiers that lost loved ones or have injured soldiers - and why didn’t they pay for their own liberation? For the Kuwait oil minister - how short his memory is. You know, we have every right to go in there and frankly take all ( Read more... )

Cute scheme, Newt.  Raise millions for a personal Political Action committee for your own personal use and expenses.

What is American Solutions for Winning the Future? What does it do? Mostly, it promotes Newt Gingrich. An AP  analysis determined that American Solutions has spent nearly all of its money raised over the last two years on ( Read more... )