My blog birthday that is. My blog was six years old a month ago on February 7th. And I forgot to write about it-that truly must be a sign of my blog passing into the middle age. Sometimes I wonder why I stay at it. My initial blogging fanatsy (
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All down hill from here
More and more men are showing up for body pump class. I do not consider it a positive development. After class, when Angie the dominatrix instructor was done showing us how fit she is, and how unfit I am- I went in to the locker room, changed into my swim
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Why not attack teachers? It is a lot easier than putting the blame on the parents-who refuse to take an equal responsibility for what’s wrong with American society. Which is why the quote from John Cole’s place rings very true: The New York Times is having a hard time figuring out why
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Hey! It’s March….and we all know what that means……. Yes, its that oh so special time of the year when we get to celebrate the history that women want us to know about while whitewashing the details they would rather just not see printed in the paper. So, as is
Continue readingThe Naval Institute…
Has been going downhill for quite some time now. I’ve been a member of the Institute for 30+years now and in the last ten years-its flagship magazine, Proceedings-has really failed to satisfy. But now, it has really hit rock bottom. I’ll leave it to someone more qualified than me to
Continue readingThe unintended consequences.
When you make changes in haste-they seldom turn out to be good ones. What I am about to chronicle in this post is an example of a change made by these guys-that is 100% at odds with what they supposedly want from those they inflicted it on. In their haste
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They should have told me earlier-there is an alternative to Body Pump. Jimmy Kimmel’s HO BO!
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Tomorrow is Oscar night. Here is a compilation of every classic movie line that has been repeated by most of us at one time or another. At 10 minutes plus, it is kind of long, but worth the time to view. It’s show time!
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Or why Johnny does not know a damn thing about the world. Also known as, “The world according to Glenn Beck and Michelle Malkin”:
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For learning Hiragana. Now after 10+ years of struggling with the Japanese language-I remain convinced that starting with Romanji ( anglicized Japanese) is a bad way to go. A beginner in Nihongo should start by memorizing the Hiragana and Katakana alphabets first and then bit by bit learn Kanji with
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