I was just on my Facebook page, editing my “applications” because when I signed up recently I got into the game of the thing and before I realized it I had nearly thirty of them! As if that wasn’t enough, When adding them, I neglected to un-check the box that tells them NOT to [...]
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Just when you think you’ve heard everything, along comes proof that in fact, you haven’t. Case in point is a recent CBS News story about the case of an unidentified woman who was found with her hair cut off, a plastic bag over her head and her hands cut off. She had been [...]
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Remember the Writer’s strike? I remember it. Some of the few things I liked about television were either killed by it or had their seasons ended several months early because of it. Now it’s a year later and we’re staring at the prospect of another strike that could delay the fall season, [...]
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You know the type… prone to loud stereo’s going at all hours of the night and day, parties, fights, loud cars with engines racing… Trash cans clattering and banging in the middle of the night and once in a while a really loud fight that may or may not include gunshots and / or a [...]
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It’s late at night, you’re just nicely starting to drift off into a much needed nights sleep and suddenly your whole body is treated to a gut wrenching low frequency vibration that shatters any hope you had of rest. What happened? Your neighbor has just started up their car stereo in the driveway.
I’ve [...]
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Looking at a few days worth of emails and ran across this item:
U.S. MAY GIVE UP ON AID TO MYANMAR
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday he will make a decision within “a matter of days” to withdraw U.S. Navy ships from the coast of Myanmar, because “it’s becoming pretty clear the regime is not going [...]
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In the news of events in our family, there’s a new baby born just the other day. One of the various announcements Of her birth was a blog post my brother did over on The (Other) End of the Internet.
The thing that’s just struck me wrong is the sad fact that as of this [...]
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Y’know, todays’ technological world has given us a lot of really cool (and very useful!) stuff. Unfortunately, there is sometimes a major lack of sense in how it’s used. For a good example I give you the Cell phone. (and no I am not a hamster. it really *IS* two words, not [...]
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I am not a hamster but believe it or not, I think it’s possible that lawmakers are just a bit shortsighted. In this case I’m speaking about laws requiring people to have car insurance. The laws in question, as far as I know, pretty much the same in most states…
Before you can register [...]
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Just like some people make me really wonder where their heads are at, so do certain governments…
U.N. BLASTS MYANMAR FOR CYCLONE AID DELAYS
The U.N. has blasted Myanmar’s military government, saying its refusal to let in foreign aid workers to help victims of a devastating cyclone was “unprecedented” in the history of humanitarian work.
I am not [...]
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