Her mind wanders
Posted in Holidays and Festivals on Dec 30th, 2011
When I first hear that Nashville was replacing it’s traditional New Year’s Eve guitar drop with a musical note drop, I went all conspiracy theory on Dick Clark’s a**. (Please note, Dick Clark has NOTHING to do with New Year’s Eve in Nashville, but he does universally represent the holiday. Kind of like Santa and [...]
Posted in Holidays and Festivals on Dec 22nd, 2011
Okay, now I’m worried. I figured out pretty early on that there were limits to Santa’s surveillance powers. I was five when I grasped the concept behind the story that the quantity and quality of my Christmas morning gifts hinged on what information Santa’s Children’s Reconnaissance Bureau had gathered on my behavior during the year. [...]
Posted in You're funny America and I love you on Dec 20th, 2011
For the last two weeks, university administrators all over this great country have been stunned by a huge increase in applications from potential history majors. “If you’d asked me two weeks ago, if our history program was going to survive, let alone expand, I would have called you a crackhead,” the president of a local [...]
Posted in Politics, You're a funny world and I love you on Dec 19th, 2011
Okay, first of all, I’m just going to come clean about the fact that, until recently, I thought his name was Kim Jong the Second, because when you put a capital I beside a lower case L it looks like the Roman Numeral 2. There. I’ve said it. I’m not proud of it, but it [...]
Posted in You're funny America and I love you on Dec 15th, 2011
In response to pressure from the right-wing group, the Florida Family Association, Lowe’s Home Improvement cancelled it’s advertising for the television show All-American Muslim. Because, as the group explained to them, Muslims do not build things. They blow them up. And that show All-American Muslim NEVER shows them blowing things up. Never. So obviously when [...]
Posted in Politics on Dec 14th, 2011
I go on and on about how bloggers are SO quick to react to one little piece of news without getting the whole story. I’m pretty arrogant about it and when I talk about it I adopt an air of lofty superiority. People in glass houses, Barb Neligan. People in glass houses. When I first [...]
Posted in Politics on Dec 9th, 2011
Perry and Bachman are out. As of right now, the debate moderated by the Donald is on with Gingrich and Santorum as the only candidates participating. Given the Donald’s personality, my guess is he will forge ahead and will not cancel, which can only be good for Newt. In that situation, Newt is going to [...]
Posted in Amazing Stories of Roadside Wonders, Politics on Dec 6th, 2011
Yesterday, I stared working on some ground rules for the Donald Debate we could use to not only minimize the pain of the event, but also save some puppies, kids, or old people in the process. Now Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman say, they’re skipping this party. Which is sad really because I’m guessing this [...]
Posted in Amazing Stories of Roadside Wonders on Dec 5th, 2011
When I first heard that the Donald was moderating a GOP debate, I thought, “Now that’s a perfect occasion for a drinking game.” But to be honest, I’m 50 and the Donald is just not worth the hangover. Then I realized that if we set up the right ground rules, we could enjoy the spectacle [...]
