JUST SOME POSTS

I just returned from a road trip vacation. I covered a large portion of seven states and a bit of two others in seven days, for over 2,500 miles. I did a significant portion of it alone, and the rest with my mother, sister, and her eight (almost nine) year old daughter. It was a very nice trip. I will admit it was too much driving, but then I like to drive. One of the things I was thinking about on the day long trip through three states getting home, was some truisms or laws of travel. This is what I came up with. FYI, I am not basing this exclusively on this trip. I have logged a LOT of miles over the years, both work and leisure related. (in no particular order) 1) the restaurant, gas station, etc you really want is always on the other side of the divided highway 2) urine production is correlated directly to the availability of restroom facilities 3) the lowest priced gas always occurs when you have no need of fuel     subset - the...

A couple of posts ago I wrote about the irritating (at least to me) actions of members of Congress who can hate any idea that is brought up by the other party. It can be an idea that their own party championed earlier, but is now being offered up by the "bad guys" so it is automatically evil and something to be railed against. That phenomenon made me think of a similar thing that is happening with the voters. I am not claiming it to be a recent affliction, but it has grown in intensity for sure (as has all vitriol surrounding politics of late). It would be humorous if it was not such a serious matter, but I am amazed at the intellectual dishonesty by the critics of George Bush and his "Big Brother" tactics against terrorism when compared to their comments (or lack thereof) on the current administrations policies and actions. Bush was protested against, publicly vilified, and otherwise deemed to be Moloch incarnate for having the NSA/CIA/intelligence community trac...

I have not done these in a while. (if you are interested, there are three or four others back a few years) HEADLINES, said to be REAL! With my comments - Woman Missing Since She Got Lost Sun-Times Media Wire It always has to start somewhere!  ( alternatively) Of course, prior to that, no one was looking! Man charged with exposure at Northgate Mall after showing 'glistening white buttocks' timesfreepress.com Sleigh bells ring, are you listening? Drunk parrots acting up and falling out of the sky in Austrailia (again) metro.co.uk cracker heads   (or alternatively)   Crackers are a gateway drug   Man learns life lesson in naked fight with javelinas The Arizona Republic Some of lifes best lessons may be learned naked . (FYI, a javelina is sort of a wild pig-like critter) Cops: Woman had 81 lbs of junk in her trunk WWL Radio / freerupublic.com I am sure she is aware of it, no need to point it out! (alernatively) She's just big bon...