One of the curiosities of American elections is that when they color in the map on election night as to who won what state, it really doesn’t tell us anything. The trouble comes from the ironic reality that most of our largest states in area are actually among
Read more...One of my younger cousins, Tera*, combined a lot of celebrations into one event. On October 31, she got remarried, and then …
Read more...When you are an advanced model infiltration unit, sometimes it’s hard to tell if you’re human or a terminator. Here are some signs to look for.
Read more...There are some that forecast a difficult year for Maryland Women’s Basketball. I think they are going to have an easier go of it than Tennessee or LSU, who got decimated by graduation. Maryland still has Kristi Toliver and Marissa Coleman to take this young team back for their second natty.
Read more...The headline pretty much says it all. I’ve just put online the store for my art web site, CJ’s Creative Studio. It’s …
Read more...Now that we are a goodly number of episodes into the fall season, about a third of the way through a full-season …
Read more...A lot of small stuff flits through my brain about Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Some has to do with time travel, some about relationships, etc. Lately, I’ve come to wonder if it’s time for the Connors to prep for Judgment Day?
Read more...The time has come with health care reform to take a step back, look at the expectations and how we can use what is already in place to get us to our goals, and then get all “mavericky” and get the job done right. It might hurt for an instant, just a little pinch, but we’ll be happy we did it years down the road.
Read more...This summer I had a taste of my first A&W Root Beer Float since I was a kid. It tasted good, but somehow it wasn’t quite what I remembered. Something was wrong.
A couple of days ago on the Food Network series Unwrapped, I saw the difference: the mug is filled with root beer and then soft-serve is shot in. Soft serve? Noooo!!!! Say it ain’t so.
Read more...Analysis and opinions of the season 2 episode “The Tower Is Tall But the Fall Is Short” from Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Read more...I just read an article about how both the Congress and the Bush Administration (with the blessing of Fed Chair Bernake) want to issue another “stimulus package” to strengthened the economy still reeling from the credit crisis that, it was said, required $700 billion to avoid collapse. Let’s make this simple: it’s a bad idea.
First—and this is key—our political
Read more...Does John McCain understand at all that by trying to taint Barack Obama by using references to Herbert Hoover he’s accomplishing absolutely nothing? I’m older than Obama (just), I love American History, and even I know almostbupkis about the
Read more...There is still quite the pastiche of voting methods around the country…even within states. Clearly the situation is ripe for some misbehavin’. I’d like to think that if there were a national voting machine standard, then it would be easier to manage and verify elections. It’s time that America gets its electoral house in order, if only because
Read more...Slowly, ever so slowly (well, quicker in the past seven years, but mostly it’s slowly), the office of the president has become less executive and more strongman. Congress needs to grow a pair and get some of its constitutional power back.
Read more...I’m announcing, today the rebirth of “IGSC” and also “moo” as useful ‘net idioms. Like a phoenix from the ashes, these words now are again flying free!
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As with the weather, many people complain about the state of education but don’t really offer up suggestions for changing it. Here’s one proposal to overhaul the current system.
Read more...It’s no secret to anyone who knows me that I’m a bit of a fatalist. Since I was a child, I knew …
Read more...Analysis and opinions of the season 1 episodes “Pilot”, “Gnothi Seauton”, and “The Turk” from Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
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