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Well, its set.

Steelers vs Ravens. Somehow,  you just knew it would come down to this.

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It is a blessing

To be holed up inside the house because of this: I needed the time to get caught up on this project. I spent most of the weekend holed up in my “man cave” writing draft after draft of a proposal and...

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Old News

It has taken me a little while to get around to this-but I did not let want to let it pass by without a comment. Long time readers here may have noticed that the number of posts about my former...

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Rejecting the equivalence argument.-Part I

This post is a direct response to Phib’s post at his place. When I get this project over-I am going to do a long post on why the argument that heated political rhetoric does not beget violence is...

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Well, at least it has a name now.

I think John Cole got this one right:

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The end of having to hear about Sarah Palin?

One can only hope. A certain segment of the American people love Governor Palin because she’s attractive and represents the final triumph of ignorance in political discourse. She speaks almost entirely...

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Thundering hoof beats…..

As the four horses of the apocalypse come thundering into town. Grover Norquist and I actually agree on something: Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist said he wants to build a...

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So that’s it!

The S.O. summarized: Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.- Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900) Thus the...

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And the hits just keep on coming……

I had looked forward to a nice easy Friday night, drink a few beers, eat some dinner-maybe watch a movie. Then the phone rang: “Listen, the leadership is going to be swamped with the rest of all the...

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MLK Day…..

The I-Pad is a handy thing-especially when you are waiting around to take a beating. Today is Martin Luther King’s birthday. That may be all well and good-but more important to me, it is my mother’s...

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Nothing else to talk about.

Steelers vs Ravens. Not even work is more important than this, today. UPDATE! 21-7?! WTFO? Oh and for the record-it was NOT a fumble! UPDATE to the UPDATE. The Steelers of the second half were not the...

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So who is it going to be?

After the S.O. told me not to be so noisy for the 15th time-I was really sweating it in the fourth quarter, I thought for sure Baltimore was going to come back- laid back and savored the win. So now of...

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Rejecting the equivalence argument Part II. (Also Part II of understanding...

Thanks to this project and the renewed education it has given me into EXCEL spreadsheets, the worth of an human being, and the real nature of corporate indifference to the needs of their employees (...

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In the command center…….

I might be overdoing it-just a bit. While I was working on the project which will come to fruition one way or another by mid week- I pushed back from the “L” shaped desk that the S.O. gave me-which is...

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Maybe we need to look at this again…

I pursed my lips a bit when I read this about Gravatar: I’m a lawyer specialising in internet and privacy issues at a Fortune 100 company and I personally think that Gravatar is easily the worst...

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Every one likes a day off…….

Especially if you are spending it in Australia or New Zealand. ( Anybody got tips on getting Rugby World Cup tickets?). This is also a parody of New Zealand’s tourist commercials.-Thanks to Coming...

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A good point……

And by the way-I was there. I launched on the first E-2 mission from USS America (CV-66), January 17 1991. But over at John Cole’s place they noticed something I had too-we are too busy sniping about...

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Getting introduced to the quality spread……..

Selection day-after getting your 3rd choice and before you head to McGuire’s to drink yourself stupid ( follow up to Phib’s video):

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Happy now?

So, are you worthless f*cKs happy now that you have had your pointless gesture? What follows is a retelling of what we all already know:  health care reform repeal is a ticket back to a system that was...

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Feeling much better…….

Well, I got that off my chest. Sometimes you just gotta do that. And I got a good nights sleep. And soon I am headed to the airport to do one of my favorite things-travel to a far away place....

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