New Year’s Revelations
Making New Year’s Resolutions is a recipe for disaster and depression.
My mother has not become more nurturing with age.
Weight lost for more than a year can come back.
Exercise hurts if you only do it sporadically.
The idea of going out is always better than actually going out.
The American Public is not smarter than we think.
Democrats will […]
Merry Yule! Happy Saturnalia! And For the Rest of Us … Festivus!
Finally! Congress passed a resolution recognizing Christmas and Christians. Thank you Bill O’! Without that non-binding, non-sensical, Christmas resolution, we would have all been without our sacred holiday. Hallelujah! Wal-Mart can open for business and Fox News has lost it’s reason to exist. The War on Christmas is over! And you thought this was […]
Read More..>>Eat, Pray, Leave, Oprah.
I am amazed by Oprah Winfrey and not just because she created Dr. Phil from her own rib. I’m in awe of Oprah Winfrey and not just because she gives away hundreds of new cars at a time or truck-loads of wildly expensive and silly fluff no one really needs on “Oprah’s Favorite Things That […]
Read More..>>Sunday Funnies
Maureen Dowd (New York Times) - “The world is globalizing, nuclear weapons are proliferating, the Middle East is seething, but Republicans are still arguing the Scopes trial.”
Chris Kelly (Huffington Post) - “It got a little slippery there for a second, what with name-checking Kennedy and Lincoln - who you’d think would have less to say […]
Freedom Requires Religion and Magic Underwear
I know more about Mormonism today than I did yesterday, but not because of anything that Presidential Candidate and Sears Catalog Model, Mitt Romney said in his speech yesterday. What I learned from Romney yesterday was that freedom requires religion. I thought freedom required eating “freedom fries”. Boy am I pissed. I’ve gained 87 […]
Read More..>>Huckabee is Less Gomer and More Andy
Wow, that Mike Huckabee seems like a nice guy! He even looks a little bit like Gomer Pyle. There’s nothing we like more in this country than a folksy, down to earth politician with a toothy grin, a folksy manner and an education guaranteed not to intimidate the fine folks who vote for people they […]
Read More..>>Sherri Shepherd: Unbelievable? Not Really.
Hard as this may be to believe, I’m going to defend Sherri Shepherd. I don’t watch The View. I watch clips from The View because people send me clips from The View with accompanying messages like, “You won’t believe this”. This message always gets me because it has always been the opening line of […]
Read More..>>What You Don’t Know in High School
I am so incredibly happy to be home. I’m home from going home. I’m home from the South. I dearly love my mother, but she keeps her house at sweat lodge temperatures and isn’t a big fan of ventilation of any kind. I discovered that I am allergic to being hermetically sealed in a hot, […]
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