“People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.”

-Dan Quayle, 1988

“When they incorporated the town, they tried a few names, but those already existed, and somebody wrote back saying we should try something more ‘peculiar.’ And, son, we did.”

- citizen of Peculiar, Missouri, quoted in the ( Read more... )

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_been_pied

Just sayin’.    I see that they don’t have Ronald Reagan there; a local semi-revolutionary whose ‘name’ was ‘Pancho White Villa’  (White Villa was a now-gone Dayton area food processor) and his ‘Revolutionary Three Stooges Brigade’ pied Reagan in the Oregon district of Dayton on a ( Read more... )

Connie is sleeping soundly behind me as I write this in the living room (my PC was brought upstairs) and some tinkly new age music is playing as a background.

Actually, it’s very relaxing!

My surgeon saw me this morning, and told me that I was healing on the incision VERY well, and he’d see me in two weeks to take out the stitches.  Nothing yet ( Read more... )

…Toyotoho!  Kohler’s $6500 way-high-tech toilet, with all the gimmicks.  (last two links are to YouTube.)

BBC play set in 1964 about an effort by radical students to kidnap Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home (yes, this really happened) and Issue Demands.  Sir Alec was alone (his bodyguard was elsewhere and this was in the middle of Nowhere, Scotland) and managed to talk his assailants out of the act.  Well, he also used some beer…

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If you ask me what the real situation is with the Japanese reactors, I’d say I haven’t the foggiest (but I’m alarmed) because there’s so much stuff being spouted in all directions, and that I have little faith in any entrenched bureaucracy or organization to tell anything straight in the direction of bad news.  I am absolutely repelled by the ( Read more... )

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So, so wrong in so many ways.

Susan has been busy over the last week or so overseeing a room switch - Connie is moving into Mere’s room (which has earwig problems in the spring) and Mere in Connie’s room (which is also warmer in the winter). This has necessitated a lot of Digging Through Built-Up Stuff, so a lot of stuff is being donated or trashed. And a lot of thing Long ( Read more... )