MY RECENT POSTS
- My brilliant 2nd career: I am
a knitter
December 07, 2011 07:47AM - I'm out of here!
July 01, 2009 02:59AM - A change of pace &
temperament: a bit of comedy,
ala Austen
June 30, 2009 04:17PM - Something for Joan Walsh...
The Hats at Royal Ascot
June 21, 2009 01:12PM - Dan Froomkin: Fired! Guess he
wrote about Torture too much?
June 18, 2009 06:33PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “I am 58, but I look
quite a bit younger. Not too
many
wrinkles...”
January 31, 2012 07:39AM - “Jerry Sandusky belongs
behind bars... and when he's
dead, he
should rot in
hell.”
January 24, 2012 03:37PM - “It's a feather and fan
pattern, also known as
"old
shale."”
December 07, 2011 08:43AM - “This afghan will have to
be pretty long. My son-in-law
and my
grandson are both
a…”
December 07, 2011 07:51AM - “Monsieur Chariot ~ I am
going to be in Paris in
October for
about ten days...
I…”
June 15, 2011 01:57PM
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My BF sent me this link because he thought I might wish to do a blog post about it. I'm grateful that he also mentioned it to me, or I never would have seen it, since that particular email, for some unknown reason, ended up in my junk/spam folder.
Is… Read full post »
In his July letter, the estimable Graydon Carter, Editor of Vanity Fair since 1992, has some advice for newspapers:

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[...]Who has the patience to hear endless whining about someone else’s misfortune when your own fortunes are rickety? This is not to say that the hea… Read full post »
That turkey comment is how Ann Pettifor describes bankers and their lobbyists in her lastest post at The Huffington Post: Defeating Homeowners: A Phyrric Victory for Bankers. I might have said it's just one more example of emphasizing short-term gains over the long view of prosperity for everyo… Read full post »
I just read this story by Ryan Grim on HuffPost, "In Their Own Words: Why Dem Senators Screwed Homeowners"... and it was the final straw. I've been seriously considering changing my party registration from Democratic to Independent, just to make a point, but I was going to do it manually. Howev… Read full post »
Jason Linkins, of the Huffington Post, writes about a study on processing humor, entitled "The Irony of Satire: Political Ideology and the Motivation to See What You Want to See in The Colbert Report." The study supplies quantitative data on (ideologically-biased) reactions to "The Colbert Repo… Read full post »

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