Utter Disgust – No Saving Throw.

Congress.  Vote the entire lot out.  Tar and feather them.  Start with Boehner. House Speaker John Boehner says the pact he’s reached with President Barack Obama and other leaders of Congress on lifting the debt limit and taming the budget “isn’t the greatest deal” but lives up to the GOP’s principles on taxes and spending. [...]

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Interesting day.

The Dude turned 40 today so Cruel Wife and I – along with four or five other couples – joined him and his wife celebrating his birthday.  It was some good food but by far was the appetizer – fried calamari.  It was perfect.  Not a hint of a rubber band within 3000 miles.   The [...]

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Hissy kitty.

Update1:  Wow, Bunk Strutt’s philosophical meanderings today actually truly left me… disturbed is too strong a word… unsettled?  I don’t know. Note:  If it appears I was critical of Bunk there, that is not the case.  The disturbing part is when you truthfully acknowledge that little bit of “Yes Man” in yourself.  97% and more [...]

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Temporary Post

This was to be a placeholder post until tonight when I posted something real.  But it’ll have to be real enough.  Suddenly a huge storm blew up and is headed for us and I’m shutting my computer down very soon, so have a good evening…   As congress-critters sit and bitch to their bosses (us) [...]

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Cooking with Fire, the Man’s Way.

Update:  Fixing Your Hernia, the Man’s Way.  This guy has guts. It is absolutely impossible for someone to fix their own hernia.  - Sam Carvajal, a surgeon at Glendale Adventist Medical Center Might have saved some pain and suffering if the guy had checked that little fact out ahead of time. **** Real men don’t use [...]

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Krauthammer Speaks Truth.

Charles Krauthammer was on Lou Dobbs this afternoon when I stepped out of work to go buy some more Red Bull ™. He was quoted: This is Obama at his most sanctimonious, demagogic, self-righteous and arrogant. And given the baseline, it wasn’t a pretty sight. Look, he started out by summoning the leaders of Congress [...]

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Post Lite.

Yes, it’s a lite post tonight.  It’s like lite beer with extra estrogen. Not that there’s anything wrong with estrogen, but there generally isn’t a sense of having consumed something lite when you drink a real beer.  No, I’m not drinking beer.  I’m posting almost about nothing, though, so it’s “Post Lite” night. The only [...]

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Urbanity.

Urban Cat using catoflage in his natural environment. **** Have some fun over at H&B with the hot cartoon. **** I’m appalled: Some congressional Democrats appeared to be on the verge of open revolt against their own president Thursday night after hearing some of the details in the $3 trillion plan – a package many [...]

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Happy Sixteen.

According to the Happy Anniversary card Cruel Wife gave me, the “Standard Schedule of Anniversary Gifts”… 1st: Paper 2nd: Plastic 3rd: Caulking 4th: Talc 5th: Duct Tape ™ 6th: Styrofoam ™ 7th: PVC 8th: Gelatin 9th: Latex 10th: Naugahyde ™ 11th: Rayon 12th: Spackle ™ 13th: Fiberglass 14th: Oil 15th: Salt 16th: Cortisone I got [...]

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Neck Update, Part 637.

Saw the nurse practitioner who works with the pain doc yesterday. MRI does show a bulged disc at C4-5 that is pressing on nerves. First thing to try is a higher-risk epidural, next month, so see if that provides some short-term relief. Second thing to try is an endoscopic discectomy (I think I got that [...]

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Cheesy Poofs.

I’m so excited!  This fall I will finally get Cheesy Poofs and the bag will read “Cheesy Poofs” and not something like “Natural Cheetos”, which are indeed cheesy, poofy, and… well, they’re cheesy and poofy but gosh darn it they aren’t called that.  They need to be specifically called “Cheesy Poofs”. Sadly, someone must risk [...]

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Stringing Them Along

Our cat – Jack – has been whizzing all over the house, and I don’t mean “moving fast”.  It all started about the time he snuck outside and stayed there the whole day – shortly thereafter my dad came to visit for four days with his wife. He’s whizzed four feet off the floor.  I [...]

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Malo… malo…

Our satellite receiver is dead.  Of all the times to go dead… TODAY is the first episode of the season for Breaking Bad.  Oh, the humanity… **** Okay, this kind of attention-whore grin is the sort of thing that requires the woman to be locked up in restraints until such time as her baby can [...]

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