Ken Mehlman, former Republican National Committee chairman and 2004 re-election campaign manager for President George W. Bush, has come out of that apparently very deep and very crowded Republican closet. He's gay and NOW he wants to see gay marriage legalized. Hypocritical piece of shit.

I'm starting to think the best place for a gay guy to find ( Read more... )

I've learned - Never trust anything the government says. Always look deeper into the story. I don't plan on eating any seafood from the Gulf for a very, very long time.

I have no desire to watch Julia Roberts act out a self-involved, narcissistic tale of self-discovery. I thought I was the only one who found the premise racist & patronizing to those ( Read more... )

My family and friends know that I have always been fascinated by earthquakes. First, it was an interest born of fear. For years, I always had a ready supply of tranquilizers to ease my panic when the ground shook. That changed after the Loma Prieta quake in 1989 ( Read more... )

I finished my last submission for the Westercon art show. I had hoped to have 2 or 3 more pieces, but I've been so busy, it just wasn't going to happen. But, I'm very happy with the pieces I do have & I'm looking forward to seeing how they are received.http://www.westercon63.org/

Thank you to my family for a memorable & loving birthday celebration. Everything -- weather, food, atmosphere, gifts, & most of all family -- was everything I wished for. I love you all more than you can ever know.

"Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many ( Read more... )

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The gods must have decided to enjoy a joke at my expense. Not an hour after my last post about the uselessness of housekeeping, my cat, Harley, knocked a container of many, many, very small, glass bugle beads into the rug, which just happened to be nearly the same color as the many, many, very small beads. Harley tried to help by eating them. When ( Read more... )

"Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things
right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been
established."

~George Carlin

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

~~Erma Bombeck

Last week, I had another CT scan, ordered by my oncologist. My onco doc always orders it with contrast dye. There are two types of dye: one is injected into a vein at the time of the scan (more on this one later). The other dye comes in the form of a drink that I have to take on an empty stomach in half hour intervals leading up to the scan, with ( Read more... )