Yes, the deaths of innocent children at the hands of a psychopath in Connecticut today is a heart-wrenching tragedy. Yes, it is newsworthy because it is so senseless. And yes, such actions should make us look objectively at all the questions that are raised.

Now for the part of this that makes me livid with anger: We are all outraged when a few ( Read more... )

The phone rang a few minutes ago, and my caller ID said "Private" and gave the phone number of the caller, which was nearby, since the area code and first three digits were the same as my number. So let me try to understand this: someone phones me, thinks I will pick up the phone, but somehow blocks his or her name from showing up on my readout. ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago, I bought a bag of stones to use in the bottoms of flower pots. They are just common stones. It didn't even cross my mind to see where they came from; one figures that bloody stones that aren't polished, just dredged up from a stream somewhere, washed, and packaged, are available everywhere in the world, including our sizable ( Read more... )

Just link to this and browse through the article.

What's with this current craze of grown women talking like Betty Boop or Cindy Brady (of The Brady Bunch)? It seems like half of the women interviewed on the radio these days are trying to convince us that they are nine years old and none too bright. It is not a good ploy if you want to be taken seriously (and not laughed at or scorned) to take on ( Read more... )

I realized after that last post that I should have shared Barry Humphreys with you. Here are a couple of Web sites featuring Dame Edna. (1) and (2).

I read with horror this morning on the Naked Capitalism Web site that wealthy Chinese are buying up French vineyards. So now, one has to worry about tainted "French" wines. We can no longer simply reject products because they say "Made in China." If the subject wines are produced in France, even if the owners and employees are 100% Chinese, the ( Read more... )

The media are discussing the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade today. It got me to thinking about what has been done to the philosophies, teaching, beliefs, and actions of the Buddha, Jesus, and Mohammed. If any of them knew what is being done today in their names and has been done ever since they departed the planet, they would all be beyond angry; I ( Read more... )

It just seems that things that should and used to take a few minutes now take a half hour to accomplish. It may be because I'm a geezer and just can't function efficiently any longer, or U.S. corporations, all of them, have made every single transaction obfuscatory. For the past few years and until the past month or so, I have used, almost ( Read more... )

What could I possibly say?