On a Lighter Note…
Just back from spending Halloween evening at the best decorated yard and front walk in South County. (Scary branches with lanterns, floating heads, cob webs, lighted jack-o-lanterns, chattering skeletons, organ music, spooky fog, “real” zombies grabbing at ankles as the young guests select candy.) The hostess shook her head throughout the evening at the dearth…
Several years ago, in the course of antique/curio shopping, I picked up a coin counter. (Note that despite its slightly old fashioned look and manual operation, the attendant zero carbon emissions makes it environmentally au courant.) Last night, I pulled it out, along with a couple of containers of coins, and began absent-mindly dividing, loading…
Driving into Providence for a photo shoot in the rain, yesterday, I parked next to the statehouse. Through the streaks in my windshield, when I climbed back into the van, I spotted this antiquated bumper sticker: The anti-Bush and anti-Republican stickers that also scarred the vehicle confirmed which regime the driver intended, but for a…
Um, sir, aren’t you … well, second in command? [H/T the Ocean State Republican which, at long last, is back on line.] We are sure that didn’t mean it to come out like a paragraph from a Republican National Committee fundraising letter, but… Vice President Joe Biden said today that if Democrats were to lose…
…well, in this case, I’ll let GQ explain (warning: impolite terminology ahead): The question isn’t whether you’re a douche bag when you go to college. We were all kind of douche bags when we went to college, if we’re going to be honest about it. No, the question for America’s youth is: What kind of…
Here’s a Dilbert cartoon from July that certain segments of Rhode Island society should consider:
Buy blueberry futures. (… or do we sell short now that the news has hit the headlines?) Feeling lazy and stupid? (Hey! Put down the remote, come to the computer and pay attention.) Possibly you’ve been indulging at the State Fair of Texas. Not such Smart Choices? Looks like the new food labeling campaign has…
So we can no longer drop dimes? After the White House took heat for asking people to report “fishy” information about health care reform, the e-mail address set up for that purpose became inactive Monday. It’s unclear whether the White House pulled the plug on the controversial account, flag@whitehouse.gov, or whether there is a bug…
… or possibly an erroneous translator. Thanks to the BBC News/Americas for the heads up that sent me to this YouTube flash of insecurity on the part of our Secretary of State.
As a production of serious musicianship, Kathleen Stewart‘s lyrics are heavy-handed and the music programmed and canned, but for a few moments of light entertainment, she does evoke some chuckles. I particularly liked “Dumbing Down Our Youth“: Preparing kids for failure on the job. Preparing kids to join the clueless mob. They’ll yield to the…