Once there was a girl who drove everybody crazy.  She was messy and forgetful and bad at listening.  People were always getting mad at her, but she never seemed to mind.

 "For the last time, I said feed the dog!" her mother would snap.

But the girl still wouldn't listen, or… Read full post »

Several days ago Verbal Remedy posted a piece titled, “So NOW Will You Finally Give Your Kids Their Damned SHOTS?”  It received 73 ratings and 111 comments, most of which were in enthusiastic agreement.   In these comments, parents with unvaccinated kids were called “/… Read full post »

Once upon a time there was a land where no one smiled.  It had been against the law for as long as anyone could remember.  Not even the mayor could remember why it was against the law, but he warned that anyone caught smiling would be arrested and thrown… Read full post »

I'm officially nervous: I volunteered to read a story to my son's first grade class for read-a-thon week, and my son asked me to read something I wrote for him called "The Smiling Pig".

I have never read in front of anyone before.  They may only be six years… Read full post »

I am so embarrassed.  I cannot believe I’m about to write this.  You are going to think I’m a brown-noser, a butt-kisser, a sycophant.  You are going to see me as the kind of person who would suck up to a car manufacturer – worse yet, a foreign, luxury car manufacture… Read full post »

This was made for a certain someone who made a wish on my OS collage/avatar thread, which this post is granting.  Can you guess who it is?

I'm really having way too much fun with MS Paint today.  :D Read full post »

I have a confession to make.  This:

is not me.  (GASP!)  I know you are shocked.  The truth is, I am not a redhead.  I am not skinny with a tiny little waist.  And I do not have a giant mouth with huge red lipsticked lips.  So why… Read full post »

I have a confession to make.  This:

is not me.  (GASP!)  I know you are shocked.  The truth is, I am not a redhead.  I am not skinny with a tiny little waist.  And I do not have a giant mouth with huge red lipsticked lips.  So why… Read full post »

OK, in response to the call for "Sexiest Man Living" nominations, I just had to be the first to go for the low hanging fruit.  (NO pun intended.  Get your minds out of the gutter!  :D)

Seriously, if Barack Obama doesn't win this contest handily, then there is something deeply wrong… Read full post »

That's what my six year old son asked me when I showed him the standard map of the US presidential election results:

I tried to explain about the blue states having more people living in them, but he's a visual little guy, and he wasn't buying it. … Read full post »

Click on it now (and turn your sound up!):

http://www.palinaspresident.us/

 (Here is the original, for anyone who missed it.  But a warning to the squeamish: Do not click on any cute fuzzy animals that appear behind the door, it is horribly graphic.) Read full post »

These are excellent and quite funny, I thought:

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In January of this year, I inherited some money.  Oh Happy Day!  It was all the better for having been unexpected, and I immediately started daydreaming about the things I could do with such a sudden, welcome windfall.  It was a delightful amount of money: Sure, it was an amount that… Read full post »

I’m embarrassed to admit this, but until now I have always thought that our economy was rock solid because I assumed it was run by a bunch of smarties who knew what they were doing.   This assumption has allowed me to live my life in blissful comfort.  All those… Read full post »

 This isn't mine, I'm just spreading it around.  I should probably add something pithy here about John McCain's legendary temper, his volitility and anger, his erratic behavior, and his general all-around nastiness.   But I think this video says it pretty well fo… Read full post »

 I’m beginning to feel very worried about the upcoming Vice Presidential debate.  With less than a week to go, expectations of Palin’s performance have been set so laughably, ridiculously low that there is almost no way she won’t exceed them.  Sure, she bombed her Kat… Read full post »

Many thanks to the Open Saloners who helped make this a stronger ad, I really appreciated your feedback.

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I’m asking this sincerely, because I don’t understand.

After McCain announced yesterday that he was going to suspend his campaign so that he could fly back to "Warshington," he proceeded to have a sit down with Katie Couric.  And then he gave what sounded to me awfully like a campai… Read full post »

I'm partly writing this because I'm bitter that my awesome cat photo got overlooked for the "shock and aw" pet cover.  I mean come on, look at that handsome guy!  He's cover material for sure.

But mainly I'm asking because even though I notice tons of new people joining every… Read full post »

Here's my "aw" picture, taken 30 minutes ago:

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 He was in a fight last night, one of those horrid hissing moaning screetching brawls, and woke the whole house at 5am.  He strutted in nonchalantly, seemingly none the worse for wear, though with a couple of tufts of fur hanging off… Read full post »

Have you guys heard this one?  Last night in Grand Rapids, Palin said, "“I’ll be ready. I have that confidence. I have that readiness and if you want specifics with specific policy or countries go ahead you can ask you can play stump the candidate if you want to.”

I'm getting… Read full post »

I’ve got it.  I know why the Democrats always lose.  I know why, even when a strong majority of the public claims to agree with Democratic policies and issues, the Republicans end up winning, time and time again.  And it’s so simple, so maddeningly, laughably obvious. … Read full post »