I’m at a loss today. Not sure why. I’ve started doing my political blogging at newsvine… my latest headlines are in the sidebar on the homepage. I wrote about the death penalty today. I also posted at the puppyblog about Scout’s Trip to the Vet as well as putting up some pictures from our trip to Griffy [...]
It’s 7:30 in the morning. You are a summer school teacher. You show up at your classroom door to find two parents waiting for you. They want to know why their son is only getting a 40% in your class. You sit down with them an explain that, basically, he is a delinquent. The parents [...]
Lots of animals were lost and abandoned during Katrina evacuations. A lot of those animals ended up getting sent to distant shelters and adopted. This story talks about a woman who adopted a dog and is now refusing to give it back to the previous owner. I think most everybody’s knee-jerk reaction is the same: what [...]
Three new species of lemur have been discovered in Madagascar. The first question that comes to mind, at least for me… do they like to move it, move it?
Israeli scientists have discovered the “anatomy of sarcasm” and found out that it takes “a complex set of cognitive skills”, one of which is empathy, to understand sarcasm. The psychologists write in the May issue of the journal Neuropsychology that for sarcasm to register, the listener must grasp the speaker’s intentions in [...]
This news anchor, leading into an intervie with the blind man who climbed Mt. Everest, makes an all-too-common mistake. Come on… who HASN’T made that mistake. Gay, blind, whatever! You understand what she’s saying! PS: For those of you slow on the uptake, the second part is the guy’s reaction while she was talking.
Back when I was using my own custom-made blog solution I had a little script that would post my stuff to my LiveJournal. Not because I like LiveJournal, I don’t, but quite a few of my friends use their LiveJournal friends page to read their friends’ blogs, so I wanted to make it as easy [...]
This may say something unflattering about my personality, but I enjoy watching people’s trauma on television. I don’t mean fictional accounts and I don’t mean watching the news and cheering when a group of miners get stuck in a hole — I mean people who go on, say, What Not To Wear or American Idol [...]
If you are digging for gold in your front yard, I have some advice for you. Do not dig for gold in your front yard. There is none there. If you must, do not do any digging that requires more than a gardening spade. For the love of god, stop before the hole is deeper than you are [...]
This morning, for no good reason whatsoever, I woke up. As though that were not bad enough, I woke up at 7:00am. For no good reason whatsoever. Now, on most weekdays prior to this one, I’d have had a pretty good reason… Starting today, though, it was inconvenient for my good reason to be online… this [...]
