Here’s a parable that confuses me a bit. You can find it all over the place, not just on Christian web sites and socially conservative blogs but sprinkled around Facebook and MySpace and really, wherever glib ideations go to spawn. It goes like this: A United States Marine was attending some college courses between assignments. … [more]
Photo contest!
20-December-2011 by Leave a Comment
Get your camera. Stuff a big, BIG memory card into it, and move out smartly. Your charge is to document American life as we live it today. With the demise of LIFE magazine, no one’s really making a good job of this on a regular basis and I’m a lousy photographer. It thus falls to … [more]
On the day of the Dear Leader’s departure
18-December-2011 by 3 Comments
In the picture, you can’t tell he’s dead. If any picture says a thousand words, 900 of them turn to lies as the facts change. We might have toasted him back then, the chubby scion of the Great Leader. From across the DMZ from Radar Site 7 on Soi San Mountain, through the cavalry’s ship-to-shore … [more]
Like Mohammed, I had a dream (mine was shorter)
14-December-2011 by 3 Comments
The Revelation which God gave, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant Jack: Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of the LORD, and of all things that he saw. Blessed is he … [more]
Tea Toddler (a recipe)
22-November-2011 by 1 Comment
A recipe for overcoming your seasonal affective disorderly phlegmatism with winter warmth, far more efficacious than the poisonous blear of Nyquil et al: Boil water. If it works for childbirth, it damn well ought to work for the common cold. Drop in a clutch of teabags and let it steep while you assemble the active … [more]
The doggie loves me…
11-November-2011 by 5 Comments
… or he wouldn’t have gone. Tucker hates riding in the car. It takes him a mile or two just to stop shaking like a meth-sizzled Chihuahua, then he settles into whistling and drooling his discontent with motorized transport. Stands to reason, I suppose. His first experience of automobiles was getting stuffed into the back … [more]
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