Every so often on the news or across the breakroom table, I hear of some brave soul who "died for his beliefs."  He stood in the face of ridicule and adversity, clung to his beliefs, and died a martyr or a hero, or both.  It always makes me wonder...how many people… Read full post »

I'm sure that sometimes I come off as being quite a bitch, but mostly I am an agreeable person.  I help people when I can, I try to be as open-minded as possible, and I strive to find the good in every situation.  But I am sick and damned tired of… Read full post »

This swine flu thing has gotten completely, utterly out of control.  I don't mean the illness itself, but rather the hideous oversensationalism that has swept the nation.  The masses have been made to fear this flu, and I wish more people knew some real facts, not just the hype.  Those/… Read full post »

Recent headline in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune (a local paper):

Inmates, families decry prison snack price hike

Good grief.  Must have been a slow news day, or maybe the staff held a meeting.  I can see it now--the boss says to the news staff, "We've got 14 inches to fill in… Read full post »

This morning's online headline from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution snagged my attention immediately:

 Family says bullying led boy, 11, to hang himself

And just as bad for me, maybe worse, was that his 10-year-old sister is the person who found his body.  I can barely write this blog f… Read full post »

My significant other has been in hog heaven for the last couple of days, all thanks to the divine comedy of Ed O'Neill crew in Married with Children.  The poor DVR has been smoking, racking up about 7 hours of the show, and he's never laughed more at anything.

 I find… Read full post »

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

I just can not believe that the media has latched on to the term "teabaggers" in reference to yesterday's "protests" (this word also deserves quotations).  Don't these people know what that really means, and… Read full post »

Somehow I took a left, and then another one, when I just should have kept on straight ahead.  As it turns out, I'm now going forward in the wrong direction.

*blues melody and beat*

I woke up this mornin'...(wah waaah wah wump)

And tried to open my eyes....(wah waaah wah wump)… Read full post »

There are some benefits to being a misfit, and I only found this out after beginning to fade as I aged.  My head looked like it was on fire when I was a kid.  I hated it when I was little, and my hair just sort of ceased to be an… Read full post »