So here I am
OK, now I have a real blog. Let's see if I have anything to say! I think I won't tell anyone about it until I do have something, and have said it.
View ArticleItaly Wins the World Cup - Sort Of
Well, Italy got to take home the World Cup. I guess that means they won.I don't think so.Yeah, Zidane should not have headbutted Materazzi. But I saw Materazzi come up behind Zidane, reach around him,...
View ArticleSecrets and Mysteries
I first posted this on Making Light, when we were discussing the difference between a secret and a mystery. I decided it would stand on its own. Let me know what you think.If you tell someone a secret,...
View ArticleGeorgetown, DE: Town of Detestable Bigots
Via Patrick Nielsen Hayden on Making Light, this story about how the detestable CHINO scumbags who run Georgetown, DE hounded a Jewish family from town. For being Jewish! Really. In...
View ArticleWay to Tear 'Em a New One!
A friend of mine quoted an acquaintance as saying: Its [sic] liberal pussies like you that keep this country from being what it should be, a protector of the free, not some pussy liberal country that...
View ArticleAdventures in Anaphylaxis
Well, so I'd stopped at the grocery store on the way home this past Thursday evening to pick up a couple of things. Walked down the Candy/Gum/Nuts aisle, looking for some dry roasted almonds. No such...
View ArticleWhy Iraq Is Not a Quagmire
A quagmire, literally, is a swamp. Soft, marshy ground that gives when you walk on it.Vietnam was a quagmire. Most of the country was a damn swamp. It was also an extremely difficult war situation, and...
View ArticleCrikey, what a dumb way to die
Steve Irwin is dead.He was snorkeling off the Great Barrier Reef, and a stingray stung him—through the heart. That's a freak thing, and unbelievably unlucky (a couple of inches in any direction, and...
View ArticleATTENTION US MILITARY PERSONNEL
From Jim MacDonald (a US Navy veteran) at Making Light:You are not required to obey an unlawful order.You are required to disobey an unlawful order.You swore an oath to support and defend the...
View ArticleMy "Cut and Run" Strategy
The GOPpers keep accusing us on the left (Democrats and southwards) of having a "Cut and Run" strategy. Surprisingly, though of course they intend this as a complete lie, there's actually a grain of...
View ArticleMy Cocoon
I have spun a cocoon around myself,Not so much to protect me from the world,As to bind me and confine meWith my pain.It looks a lot like me, this cocoon. But:In those eyes there is no light;In those...
View ArticleTwo Poems for Valentine's Day
I. MeetingFrom across the room you spyThe red carnation on my chest,And walk toward me, smiling.As you approach, you seeThat it’s the bloody woundWhere my heart has been torn out.I return your smile,...
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