Author: Dr Wingnut

  • Saint Paul cares

    More than Minneapolis according to a new ranking at WalletHub. Although, Minneapolis was only slightly lower than the “Silver City.” See patch.com

  • Now in the center ring…

    The Trump Administration circus just keeps getting better. Barr belittled the career prosecutors he led, told U.S. attorneys to consider charging violent protesters under a sedition law that makes it a crime to interfere with law enforcement or plot a coup, compared coronavirus lockdowns to slavery, backed Trump’s unsupported assertion that a foreign power could…

  • Minimalist Nativity

    Minimalist Nativity

    The funniest thing I saw yesterday was a tweet that lead me to this search of Minimalist Nativity Sets. Hysterical… I especially liked the one that was just blocks of wood that identified the characters, Mary, Joseph, Sheep, Donkey, Baby Jesus, et cetera. Haven’t seen any of these out on my travels, but I’d sure…

  • Cottage Industry

    The $400 clue in the category, “The Second Millennium” on Jeopardy! yesterday, 2020-12-03, was: “Before the Industrial Revolution, people worked from home in what’s called this kind of house industry.” The COVID-19 pandemic is really making WFH (Work from Home) the predominant cottage industry of the 21st Century.

  • Forever

    Jill and I realized last night that being married forever isn’t as long now as it used to be. We both found this quite amusing.

  • Right on George Clooney

    Now it looks like George is thinking about his legacy, because he’s already got his three-year-old twins, Ella and Alexander, getting in on the action. “They both have learned to play pranks, which is good fun,” George told People magazine as part of his appearance in their “People of the Year” issue. A particular favorite is a…

  • Ingenuity

    The thing about human ingenuity is that when there is a sharp need for something, it tends to crystalize in discovery.Irving Finkel, Assyriologist, Nova S47 E11: A to Z the First Alphabet