Category: General

  • Black and White

    You could hardly see for all the snow,Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go.Pull a chair up to the TV set,“Good Night, David. Good Night, Chet.”Depending on the channel you tuned,You got Rob and Laura – or Ward and June.It felt so good. It felt so right.Life looked better in black and white.I…

  • Remember When …

    Close your eyes…And go back…….Before the Internet or PC or the MAC……….Before semi-automatics and crack….….Before Playstation, SEGA, Super Nintendo, even before Atari…….Before cell phones, CD’s, DVD’s, voicemail and e-mail….….way back….way…..way…..way back…..I’m talkin’ bout hide and seek at duskRed light, Green lightRed Rover….Red Rover…..Kick the CanPlaying kickball & dodgeball until the first…no…second…no…third streetlight came onRing around…

  • Snacks should be snacks

    In an article titled, “Sizing Up Super Snacks” in the 12 February 2007, Time, Joel Stein talked about how snacks should be snacks, not health food.  And made this observation,Far worse than organic snacks are the traditional ones trying to be healthy.  There are 100-calorie packs of everything, which can’t be good for the environment,…

  • The new “Give ’em Hell, Harry!”

    He has 24 months left in his presidency.  I don’t think I’m being mean-spirited by saying [that in] the first six years of his presidency, there’s been nothing accomplished except the biggest foreign policy fiasco in the history of our country.Harry Reid (D-NV) on President George Bush, Time, 22 January 2007It seems that the plain…

  • World’s greatest metaphor

    High velocity lead poisioning for gunshot.  Don’t remember where I heard or read it, but it took a few seconds to sink in.

  • New Year’s Resolutions

    If you want to support your civil rights, click on the resolutions above.

  • Deadwood

    About a year ago, when I was purchasing Six Feet Under, I decided to try some of the other series that HBO had released, so I purchased Deadwood.  I just finished watching that first season, and was impressed.  The language is a little strong, so it’s not for watching when the kiddies are up, but…