Category: General

  • Commercial break

    Today during Sunday Morning on CBS channel WCCO in Minneapolis/Saint Paul they played a “Political advertising break.”  It featured a toddler sitting in a high chair playing with a bowl of spaghetti noodles and giggling.  A timer counted up to 30 seconds, then it was back to the mayhem.

  • Folk wisdom from Uganda

    Latecomers eat bones.Never insult the crocodile before you cross the water.A person without faith is like a zebra without stripes.Before you go out with a widow, ask first what killed the husband.The lead cow always gets whipped the most.from an article by Fr. Dennis Dease in Saint Thomas Magazine, Fall 2008 about my friend Charles…

  • Chief Lord and the boys save a horse

    My little brother, Jay is the Fire Chief of a little town in New Hampshire.  I was hanging out on the 2nd of August talking on the phone when I got an email from my friend Michael who lives a little way from my brother with a link to the following article.  So there I…

  • Sock puppet

    I was listening to the prepared statement of our fearless leader, George Bush, on the six central banks (Fed, ECB, BoE, BoJ, SNB, and BoC) pushing more money into the system on the aftermath of the AIG bailout, and realized that Bush is the biggest sock puppet of all time.  Cheney and the other criminals…

  • Just call me Copper

    According to the Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator my name would be “Copper Catfish Palin.”  I guess that wouldn’t be so bad, but I think I’ll keep my very own screwed up family and not pick up another one.via email from John Treworgy, Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:04:08 -0700

  • Palin might make a great president!

    Michael Palin for Presidentvia email from Duane McDowell, Tue, 9 Sep 2008 16:21:15 -0700

  • The new music paradigm

    One upon a time, you had to go the the “Record Store” to purchase LP’s to listen to music… now you just have to have a computer connected to the net and a browser that will take you to one of these places where you can download the music directly to your computer, or listen…