The post season this year is one of surprises for us all. I think most assumed that it would be the Yankees vs. the Phillies again, almost taking it for a “gimme.” And when the Yankees came back from 5 runs down to score 5 in the eighth to beat the… Read full post »

A very revealing poll shows that a large segment of 2008 Obama supporters are either defecting to the Republicans or not planning on voting at all, come November.  Meanwhile, an almost equal percentage of McCain voters are likewise either switching or not planning on voting.

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The just-passed rescue of the 33 miners from the Chilean mine has also put Bolivian President Evo Morales in the news though only secondarily, as one of the rescued men was fellow Bolivian Carlos Mamani.  Morales had at first intended to be there at the site to welcome him when he was… Read full post »

Operations are underway in Chile to begin bringing the first of 33 miners trapped since August 5th more than two thousand feet underground to the surface this evening.   The 33 men were trapped while gathered in a chamber far beneath the surface eating lunch when a porti… Read full post »

A concert I wish we all could experience.

 Geoffrey Lewis performs "The Dwarf."

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I’m currently reading a science fiction novel “Monkey Trap” written by a father-daughter writing team writing jointly under the name of Lee Denning. They give credit in large measure for their premise to a Princeton University sponsored project, the Global Consciousness Project… Read full post »

It was decades ago that I first heard or read that we don’t see with our eyes but with our minds. This is I have since learned quite literally and profoundly true. All that we see, in fact all that we perceive within this universe is entirely within our minds. Vision… Read full post »

Twelve things about me.

1. I got my right arm squashed in a paper mill accident when I was 19. A 2000+ pound roll of paper rolled off a pallet and pinned it up against an I Beam ceiling support steel column, resting right on the elbow. It’s still slightly crooked,… Read full post »

(Inspired by OEsheepdog’s current post “How to wage a successful Tea Party campaign.” Thanks, sheepdog.)

1. Deny that you are Muslim even though you are on record as believing the most beautiful sound in the world is the Muslim call to prayer, and were recorded on camera referring to… Read full post »

The heavy volume of recent spam posts to go along with the already heavy volume of spam comments on our own posts has us disgusted, angry, scratching our heads, kicking the cat, putting up posts to ask why and so forth.  Boanarges Redux put a comment on one such post by Rob St.… Read full post »

Two asteroids were reported by NASA to be on near-miss courses to pass by the Earth today according to a Daily Mail article in the UK.  One, thought to be 32-65 feet long, had already missed us by 11:00 AM, presumably Greenwich time though the article doesn't say, Passing approximately 154,000… Read full post »

There is in Islam a principle known as Taqqiya, or deception. What it pertains to is lying. There are three categories of purpose for which lying is permitted in Islam. They are lying for the cause of Islam; lying to maintain or bring about peace between the (Muslim) tribes; and lying… Read full post »

I was in my work area when my foreman Billy approached me. “I bet you wish you hadn’t sold your Glock now.” He was referring to a Glock 17 9mm pistol I had recently sold, but I had no idea why he would be saying that. “How come?” I asked. “You… Read full post »

Both Heather Michon and Tim4change posted articles within minutes of each other today suggesting that the appropriate response to the Florida ministers' plan to hold a burn the Koran day September 11th is instead to buy a Quran (or Qur'an, or Koran, the english spelling doesn't matter) on that day.&n… Read full post »

 Update:  After a google check of the Alaska State Fair website on reading Paul J. O'Rourke's comment, I've found that appparently Fair Security had very good reason for arresting the man.  I've responded to Paul with a very long url for the website, but now want to put in a tinyURL… Read full post »

A poem I wrote back in college while flying high on peyote one night, circa 1972 or thereabouts.

Wails in the Halls of Laundry.  A Slap On the Ass and I'm born again.              (Full title.  Too many charactors for the OS t… Read full post »

My computer has been down for the past few weeks, necessitating my using the library computers for accessing email as well as occasionally posting here, though that not too often or lately, even at all, it being a pain in the butt to make that trek to the library a continuous one. … Read full post »

Enjoy your freedom, the celebration of it, and a laugh or two.  Toward that latter end, take a gander and lend an ear to this, by Aaron Wilburn.  I just found it on my computer, sent to me by my ol' gunner buddy Ron "Too Tall" Erickson, six feet seven inches… Read full post »

I've had the following exchange of emails over the weekend with my good friend and sister Brenda, younger sister of Brian Murray, Copperhead doorgunner who died the night of March 5th, 1968, the story of which I told in my post "One Bad Night Forever"  here: 

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I just yesterday completed my first week of work in over a year and a half.  And thank God it was a short week!  Because my back has been complaing and demonstrating loudly and ostentatiously against it, threatening to go out on strike completely for the past three days.  It… Read full post »

For those of you who may be dreading the coming  tremors and withdrawals induced by an onslaught of empty nest syndrome soon to be upon the serious watchers of the Barn Owl nest box web cam which was first posted some time back by I forget who but I have to thank… Read full post »

It has been alleged that the Eastern European nations under Soviet Control and known as the Eastern Bloc did not fall to the Soviet Union as I said in my earlier post, "They Didn't Die In Vain: The Real Results of Viet Nam" but rather were virtually handed over to them,… Read full post »

Kittens on a slide.

Mama helps the ride.

See it all right here.

 No searching far and wide.

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Tom Stewart is a new writer on Open Salon, and he F'ing misses Johnny
Cash!  And rips your heart out telling the story of the little boy who loved Spiderman.  And more besides.  He's only been on the board a few days, by the looks of the posts that are listed,… Read full post »

This is a good one, Fay. I like your list, generally, though one or two I was not too impressed with, notably Citizen Kane, which is considered a classic. For some reason, I just didn't see it like that. Generally though I like your taste in movies.

Just coming up with a… Read full post »