Steelers vs Ravens. Not even work is more important than this, today. UPDATE! 21-7?! WTFO? Oh and for the record-it was NOT a fumble! 🙁 UPDATE to the UPDATE. The Steelers of the second half were not the team that pissed it away in the first half. Thank goodness! Steelers
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MLK Day…..
The I-Pad is a handy thing-especially when you are waiting around to take a beating. Today is Martin Luther King’s birthday. That may be all well and good-but more important to me, it is my mother’s birthday. She would have been 93 this year. Now as far as I am
Continue readingAnd the hits just keep on coming……
I had looked forward to a nice easy Friday night, drink a few beers, eat some dinner-maybe watch a movie. Then the phone rang: “Listen, the leadership is going to be swamped with the rest of all the proposals that are due next week, you look like you are pretty
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The S.O. summarized: Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.- Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900) Thus the dilemma of living with a woman-and reason 298 why marriage is outmoded.
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As the four horses of the apocalypse come thundering into town. Grover Norquist and I actually agree on something: Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist said he wants to build a center-right coalition to advocate for considering pulling out of Afghanistan in order to save the hundreds of billions
Continue readingThe end of having to hear about Sarah Palin?
One can only hope. A certain segment of the American people love Governor Palin because she’s attractive and represents the final triumph of ignorance in political discourse. She speaks almost entirely in bumper sticker sized soundbites, which is fine with them because they have no desire to even think in
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I think John Cole got this one right:
Continue readingRejecting the equivalence argument.-Part I
This post is a direct response to Phib’s post at his place. When I get this project over-I am going to do a long post on why the argument that heated political rhetoric does not beget violence is wrong-and forcefully attack those who think they get some sort of a
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It has taken me a little while to get around to this but I did not let want to let it pass by without a comment. Long time readers here may have noticed that the number of posts about my former employer and lifelong vocation, the United States Navy-has dropped.
Continue readingIt is a blessing
To be holed up inside the house because of this: I needed the time to get caught up on this project. I spent most of the weekend holed up in my “man cave” writing draft after draft of a proposal and taking the occasional break to bang my head against
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