The Politics Blog
No-holds-barred commentary on the political arena.

Lifestyles of the Income-Challenged and Relatively Unknown
So, having bills to pay, and realizing that any return on writing for pay will be a while in coming… I am wading in the waters of employment ag...

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Literary Persuasion
So, I always was interested in being a writer, having actually begun to scribble down stories and adventurous narrations from when I was in...

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G*y Cats and L**bian Dogs
So, now that Blondie and I are supporting a houseful of critters… some of whom interact agreeably with each other, and some others of whom ma...

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The Inner Martha Strikes Again
Just as we were fixing dinner on Sunday (pot-roasted chicken with lemon, garlic and rosemary, should anyone be interested) I ran the disposal so...

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Green Stamps
I don’t know what brought it on, remembering green stamps and blue stamps, and those thin little books that you glued them in to… possibly em...

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Apostasy in Black & White
My parents stoutly held out against the menace of television until the late 60ies, when they accepted the gift of a tiny black and white po...

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So You Heard…
…The one about the guy who was down in the dumps, and they told him…”Cheer up, things could get worse!” So, he cheered up, and sure e...

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Question of The Day (060829)

Anyone else tired of “all Katrina, all the time?”


Everything You Know About Katrina is Wrong
So says Paul over at Wizbang. I’m going to warn you now. If you’ve only heard the news from the mainstream media, everything you think you know about ...

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Tails of the Lesser Weevil
The dog that Sgt/Cpl. Blondie presented me with at Christmas when she came home from serving in the Marines, after telling me that I would ha...

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Sober Blogging (060827)
With all of the recent publicity about Mel Gibson’s drunk driving arrest, I thought I’d make some things clear to some of you mo...

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