Washington, DC
Mid January 2009
Hillary Rodham Clinton is the nation’s new president. She was sworn in today.
With the First Husband indisposed at the newly opened West Wing Hooters, Mrs.Clinton is very excited about spending her very first night alone in the White House.
Her White House.
It’s no secret that Hillary [...]
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YANGON, Myanmar (AP)- Soldiers with automatic rifles fired into crowds of anti-government demonstrators Thursday, killing at least nine people in the bloodiest day in more than a month of protests demanding an end to military rule.
Bloody sandals lay scattered on some streets as protesters fled shouting “Give us freedom, give us freedom!”
On the second day [...]
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I’m in one of my moods today. Easily bothered…annoyed.
Cursed testosterone!!!
It’s been well established on my blog that I cannot and will not tolerate the incessant use of the word “like”; especially with the upturned inflection nonsense placed at the end of the utterance…the very one that so many of today’s “yoots” use.
I’ve [...]
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This is a story that was recently published in a Seattle area newspaper.
Police arrested Robert Aylor, a 59 year old white male, in a pumpkin patch around 11:30 on a Friday night..
That Monday in a court appearance, Aylor was charged with lewd and lascivious behavior, public indecency, and public intoxication. The [...]
My friend, Miriam Lansing’s husband’s brother’s next door neighbor’s great nephew’s college roommate, Donnie, is a bellhop at the hotel where Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stayed during his recent trip to New York City. Donnie’s girlfriend works in the hotel’s Housekeeping department.
While she and her crew were cleaning Ahmadinejad’s suite, she [...]
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I never meant for it to happen.
All I wanted was to spend a nice, quiet camping weekend with my sisters in the beautiful Whitaker Forest in East Texas.
The majestic pine trees, fresh water streams and ample flora and fauna promised a lovely, tranquil three days of bliss–away from the hustle and bustle [...]
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“To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.”
—Calgacus
There’s no doubt about it, war is hell.
Ironic isn’t it, that this was the movie playing at the Texas Theater in Dallas on a cold November afternoon in 1963. [...]
A few months ago, I posted this piece on the similarities between human gestation and the first few months of a budding romance. My friend (Oh, let’s call him “Fred” 
liked its tongue-in-cheek sarcasm and asked if I’d repost it.
I tried to explain this hip, new concept called “archives” [...]
Well, as if Hallmark wasn’t raking in the dough with specialty cards for the weirdest things, such as “Gravel Pit Appreciation Day” and the always popular, “Smile! You could be in Darfur!” money holder, I just find out that this week is “Singles Week”.
And yes, I’m sure there are cards for the occasion.
What is “Single’s [...]
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Once upon a time in Houston—where you can shoot an arrow in the air…and it’ll stick— there was a judge named Ted Poe, who used to give out extremely creative sentencing. He was of the mindset that humiliation was as much a part of the punishment as paying a hefty fine, serving time [...]
