Tête-à-Tête-Tête

I really don’t like writing about the whole Israel/Hezbollah thing. It’s too difficult for my small brain. But, I can’t help commenting when I chance upon dumb stuff - that even I can see is dumb - written by a premiere right-wing blog. Especially when that dumb comes alongside some pretty sorry [...]

Over the past couple of years I’ve devoted some thought to analogies for George W. Bush’s war in Iraq:
It’s a televised poker game. George won the first couple of hands and got the crowd behind him. He’s lost every hand since, some by a close margin, others by a blow-out. He’s still [...]

11. Didn’t bring balloons but managed to twist your dachshund into other
animal shapes.
[...]
6. Those huge ears look too darn life-like, and the entire act consists of
showing charts and complaining about the deficit.
Top 18 signs that you’ve hired the wrong clown for your child’s party.

Some of us will remember how Ted Stevens, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee and in charge of regulating the Internet, demonstrated his grasp of the technology: It’s not like a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. Now he’s defending himself:
“I have a letter from a big scientist who said I was [...]

One local race I take personally is the Hamilton County Commission district 8 seat. John’s ad tells it all:

(hat tip Hamilton County Democrats.)
Adams’ seat on the commission is little more than ego-prop for him, a vehicle for him to get on national tv and share his personal wisdom… about why gays shouldn’t be allowed [...]

Me First & the Gimme Gimmes
Just click.

One way I’ve found to relax is to work on the dry stone walls that are scattered around our property. These are walls I’ve built from scratch, from pallets of what’s sometimes called Tennessee River Stone. I think I’ve put up on the order of six or seven tons of the stones into [...]

Haven’t done one of these in a while.
Sit back, clear your eye boogers, and check some links:
Lawsuits over global warming on the horizon: There are already people dying from heat waves worldwide; already populations on island atolls are losing ground to encroaching ocean; already, the percentage of high strength hurricanes has increased… at least [...]

I’m of the age when if I were to ask my friends if they’d ever collected baseball cards, the answer would be, “Of course!” I wasn’t a real collector, in that I had no more than a few dozen at any time, but they were a part of my boyhood (I think baseball cards [...]

I like this one.