Month: November 2008

  • Maxine on border control

    Everyone concentrates on the problems we’re having in this country lately: illegal immigration, hurricane recovery, alligators attacking people in Florida …Not me.  I concentrate on solutions for the problems.  It’s a win-win situation.+ Dig a moat the length of the Mexican border.+ Send the dirt to New Orleans to raise the level of the levies.+…

  • Buster

    Yesterday we decided to put our dog down.  It was a sad day.  Buster was thirteen, and since Halloween had been having trouble figuring out if he was inside or outside when he decided to relieve himself.  Tuesday this week was really the deciding day. He had been outside, came into the house, stood in…

  • The same goes for being unemployed

    A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.George Bernard Shaw

  • More food art

    via email from Martha Clark, Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:07:20 -0700For more of these see, Art on the cutting edge

  • Good morning

    Some mornings it just doesn’t seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.Emo Phillips

  • Today’s Message of the Day is:

    Every sixty seconds you spend angry, upset or mad, is a full minute of happiness you’ll never get back.Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile.via email from Martha Clark, Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:07:20 -0700

  • Why are we doing this?

    You know — it’s not just a bad idea, it’s the law.John Paulson, 27-Oct-2008 on why we bother to collect ethnicity data