Month: December 2008

I posted an item on Facebook about the Global Warming Scare in which scientists were cited as being critical of how an Associated Press article further added to the hysteria. As linked above, the story I cited was as published by foxnews.com. Someone commented on the item. Not the content, mind you, but the source.…

Sometimes Sammy says the most interesting things… We were talking about a story of a couple who named their son with the first and middle names of ‘Adolph Hitler’, and asking the kids if that name would bother them, to help gauge how much younger kids understand. Mika understood, but Sammy didn’t really know the…

The way he dodged, it could have been an assassin and would have missed. Who needs Secret Service…I mean, if they can’t step in to take a shoe shot, how can we trust them to take a bullet for the President? [No offense to any Secret Service agents reading this. Or ATF. FBI, well, I’ve…

This evening am listening to my favorite Christmas album: Trans Siberian Orchestra’s Christmas Eve and Other Stories. For those who haven’t heard of them, TSO is a group of musicians not out of Siberia (since nothing gets out of Siberia) but right here in the U.S. Their focus is not producing just music, but more…

And there you have it… Yes, there will of course be additional posts as things progress, but currently targeting mid-July for the play-by-play (ok, maybe not quite) of the birth.

…and yet that FBI file will STILL be clean. Was a part of the Dickens Festival in the Stadium District yesterday. I got arrested, with charges brought before the court by DW, for “being too serious”. As if. 😉

I was tagged by Giovanna Garcia of Imperfect Action to participate in this meme. (By the way, you must check out her post and more importantly her story–it’s fascinating.) For those unfamiliar with the term meme, think of it like a themed game of online tag…I’ve been tagged, I write a post, then tag 7…

Wednesday I get an email from one of the editors of the Business Examiner (“…the only publication dedicated exclusively to the South Sound business community, emphasizing material of interest and impact to local business owners, executives, and managers. Contents include matters of public record that relate to business readers, profiles of businesses and their operators,…

There is no doubt about it: we are in a recession. But despite political punditry, there is no comparison to the Great Depression….even the Federal Reserve Chairman has said as much. Regardless, though, most of us will (or at the very least should) begin to examine our spending–and income–more closely. There is a myriad of…

The Boys… Josh Plays Possum (when any character came by, but especially the Polar Bear) The Boys with Cameo Appearance by Mika (note Josh’s face!)