That Can’t Be A Bad Thing, Right?

My Husband has been invited to lunch by one of the Job Prospects tomorrow.   Do Job Prospects routinely invite you to lunch to turn you down for the job? “We really liked you, but we can’t hire you.  Please, by all means, enjoy a salad on us.”

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“SO INCREDIBLY FAT!!!”

I’m not a fan of the new Leslie Bennetts book, The Feminine Mistake. As a libertarian I think life works best when people make their own choices informed by their faith, family and friends. Live on a commune; work on Wall St.–whatever you and your support network think is best is your decision and the [...]

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Phil Liggett & Bob Roll

For years we cycling fans have chuckled and rolled our eyes at Bobke’s pronounciation of the Toor Day Fraants. I guess linguistic mangling of place names goes both ways.   I just heard Phil Liggett refer to  “Mackin”  Georgia. At least everyone says “Pelaton” correctly.

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Ten Days. Seriously. TEN DAYS.

So I was reading an interview with a top-selling author today.   I’m a fiend for author interviews, perspectives and fetishes, because I keep hoping to stumble across a secret to writing a successful book that goes beyond “actually sitting down and typing the story out of your head.”    I’d love to hear someone offer a [...]

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Does “I’m Sorry” Mean Anything Anymore?

Why is Alec Baldwin apologising on The View? I don’t know what he said; I’m only vaguely aware of him saying something that this time angered the whole country, instead of just half of it. But I thought what he said was something to his child. Certainly he owes the child an apology, if what [...]

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Is Snape Evil?

I love how the various book promos are making this the “big” question of book 7.   We were at Borders a few days ago, and all their promo material is centered around this question.   They have little strips of paper with the “Good Snape” data points on one side and the “Bad Snape” data points [...]

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I’m Putting My Mouth Where My Money Ought To Be

You might also suggest to your local representatives which of those groups of people should lose the services they rely on so that we can eliminate the $8 or $9 in tax we pay on every $100 of food we purchase. –Tennessee Taxpayer And Vehicle Services Division in an email dated 26 April, 2007 $8 [...]

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Food Tax Relief

Yesterday a Mr. Harvey of the Tennessee Department of Revenue suggested to me that a reduction of the food tax would harm the children of the good people of Tennessee. I emailed this to Mr. Harvey today. You’d think that Tennessee would realise that it has more money that it needs (ie. a surplus), and [...]

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Friday Random Ten

(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction The Rolling Stones Forty Licks [Disc 1] Koka Kola The Clash London Calling Chief O’Neill’s Hornpipe The Chieftains & Chet Atkins Further Down the Old Plank Road Bandit of Love/The Cheating Waltz The Chieftains & Carlene Carter Further Down the Old Plank Road I’m Not Down The Clash London Calling [...]

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My Pork Barrell Project

If our fine folks in government can do it, so can I. I’m stumping for a pork barrell project of my own. Mothership BBQ needs some help. Do you know any investors? Give ‘em a holler.

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