Back in the 1970s, Southwest Bell (now ATT) came out with a new whiz-bang motto intended to endear itself to its customers:

“We may be the only phone company in town, but we try not to act like it.”

Naturally, being the only phone company in town, they

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010 6:21AM

It's Just One Epiphany After Another


 

I watched a really good movie called “Fresh” tonight. It’s a documentary about fresh food, as opposed to processed food. It talks about the tomatoes instead of the Fritos.

I was a bit worried that it was going to be one of those “True Believer” documentaries, yo

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JANUARY 26, 2010 3:16PM

Cherchez La Moola


My mom told me a few years back that she feared hunger. I felt like I’d been kicked some place soft – with a lot of nerve endings.

I asked her if it was a recent thing. She said she’d felt that way since she was a child. I

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JANUARY 11, 2010 9:55AM

TEOLAWKI-The Great Birthing


 

The time of “The Great Birthing” is getting closer. That’s what I call it: The Great Birthing. Others call it apocalypse, armageddon, or simply the end of life as we know it. Let’s call it TEOLAWKI. Tay-oh-law-kee. Okay, now when we meet we can say, “tay-oh-law-kRead full post »

JANUARY 10, 2010 5:01AM

Emergency Shallow Twits Award

 
I was originally planning to publish today a thoughtful, reasoned, screed about bulldozing American cities. But, wouldn’t you know it, those wacky kids who work for TSA are up to their usual shenanigans. Bless their little hearts. I just had to stop everything and take official note ofRead full post »
JANUARY 8, 2010 7:09AM

Please, Tipper, Make Him Stop!


 

We’ve been trying to keep the water pipes intact for over a week.

I woke up at 1:30 AM, like I do every morning. I crawled out of my hole of a bed. It has a slow leak so it needs to be aired up every thirty minutes. AfterRead full post »

JANUARY 2, 2010 5:45AM

Losers/Winners All


Everyone alive has experienced painful, wrenching losses. Even a newborn baby, who we like to think of as being a blank slate, has just lost the safest, happiest home he’s ever going to know in his life. He faces his forever in a hostile environment. His only advantage in this

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DECEMBER 29, 2009 6:52AM

Stick It, Rupert


 

Newspapers don’t make their money by selling newspapers. I sincerely hope that isn’t news to you. I hope it’s something you always knew and took for granted. Another bit of information I hope you already knew is that newspapers aren’t charitable institutions, just tryRead full post »

DECEMBER 25, 2009 5:05AM

Silent Night-White Christmas


It’s 2:54AM this Christmas of 2009. The ground is covered with snow. I haven’t seen a Christmas where it snowed on Christmas Eve, so that it was a real White Christmas, since I was a child.

For me, snow is magic. It cleans everything up and paints a layer of

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DECEMBER 19, 2009 3:28PM

We're #37-Yay!


"It's got a good beat. You can dance to it. I give it a 95"

 

If you're nowhere near old enough to remember American Bandstand, America being higher than #37 in healthcare, affordable housing, one job per family being enough to live on, and an education system that

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DECEMBER 7, 2009 3:03PM

Suri in Pink-Sign of the Apocalypse?

 

OMG! Yes! Who isn’t aware that the color pink has been used by every single evil organization aspiring to world domination since time immemorial?

From the pink armbands worn by those who assassinated the Romanov family, to the Khmer Rouge (khmer is a Cambodian word meaning “white m

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NOVEMBER 26, 2009 2:57PM

Congenital Vegetarianism & Thanksgiving


 

The truth is that I’m a congenital vegetarian. I didn’t know that until I had my first child, but I knew, from the first time somebody tried to put dead animal puree on my lips, that I didn’t want dead animals in my mouth.

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Oh, yeah. Hot organic farmers, oh wait, we better capitalize that. Hot Organic Farmers. That’s better. Hot Organic Farmers are probably a sign of the Apocalypse, if for no other reason than the list of hotties includes Michelle Obama.

Maybe I’m a closet Republican but…Michelle isn

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This is exactly what it says it is. It isn’t what I usually put out in front of the whole world. However, it is how I think and what I say when I’m off the internet, and among people who know me. This is Middle V.

 

Hey,

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JUNE 26, 2009 8:24AM

Spam Candy-Sign of the Apocalypse?


Now, I know what you’re thinking so let me stop you before you get all lathered up and start screaming, “WTF! This is a bogus blog entry! Of course Spam Candy is a sign of the apocalypse! What, are you freakin’ kiddin’ me?!?!?!”

Calm down, okay? Put the dust covers

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JUNE 25, 2009 8:32AM

The Reporter's Dream


There was a young man who was accused of stealing a bicycle. FedEx made a mistake and delivered it to his house. He was accused of theft when his neighbor complained and the police did a search of his home.

His situation became a national news story and he was

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JUNE 24, 2009 7:29AM

Blog Comments & Hemingway


You may never have never taken much time to determine exactly why you’re blogging. After all, if what you want is to socially network with people, wouldn’t you be better served with a web camera, a light source, and your friends list? Mmm, maybe, but blogging has the potential

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Don’t get me wrong, I liked Che. Not his politics, his hotness. Although, being young, I had no clue what his politics were. But, back in the sixties, being a revolutionary was cool. Besides, he had all that facial hair and a beret. What wasn’t to like?
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JUNE 22, 2009 6:40AM

Somebody Wuz Robbed

 
 

Let’s recap. Iran had elections to choose a president. All the pre-election polls said that Ahmadinejad was ahead and expected to win. So what happened? Who snatched the majority of the people’s votes away from Ahmadinejad? Who rigged the elections so that Ahmadinejad didn&rRead full post »

 

Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma is questioning some of the 20,000 Recovery Act projects already approved to help stimulate the American economy. Sen. Coburn questions 100 stimulus projects

Coburn has criticized $3.4 million being spent to build an underground road crossing for turtles and

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JUNE 19, 2009 7:48AM

Writers' Ethics


 

 

After I published an article based on a hoax yesterday, I ran across this poll on the ethics of editing a previously published article to reflect new information, without acknowledging the changes made.

You can vote in the poll, or just look at the results to see

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JUNE 18, 2009 12:09PM

Obama's A Foreigner?


I hate to say, “I told you so,” but I did say that the birth certificate was a red herring because Obama had other problems.

In an article by Jim Kirwan on Rense this morning here, the group “Americans for Freedom of Information” has Obama’s college transcript whic

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MAY 16, 2009 6:15AM

You Ripple

 

Please read the following linked article on Open Salon and think about the way the world could be changed. Then think about what small step you could take to make a big change in yourself, in your world, in the planet.

Each of us affects the world

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MAY 14, 2009 7:21AM

Shallow Sex Twits Ride Again

 

Today I'm giving out not one, but two, Shallow Sex Twits Awards. It's the least I can do. There's a war on you know.

You’ll just have to read this one for yourself. Does the US government believe that if they send the money to China, the American people won’tRead full post »

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MAY 12, 2009 6:04AM

Today's Shallow Sex Twits Award

I’ve assumed my whole adult life that, unless you say otherwise, you’re having sex. Never once did it cross my mind that you might have some need to journal it, or that it happens so infrequently that you need to take notes on any occurrence of it, you know, in orderRead full post »

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