I watched the CNN/YouTube Republican debate last night without taking notes. Frankly, I didn’t think I’d need any. Poking fun at the Dems after their last debate was like shooting fish in a barrel, but the Republicans were on task, and CNN did a great job of choosing questions, though health care was [...]

Woohoo! I used a Dell coupon to buy a PC! Not for me, of course. My sister in law needed a new one. Know why? My Christmas gift to her is a new digital camera… which needs WinXP or Vista for the included software! She’s running 2000 on her [...]

You’re so lucky that I internalized my pain a year ago when Tess died. Sure, I cried for three months straight, but I refused to bring it here to the blog. Well, I’m not doing that this time; my inner workings are hanging on the outside of my body like a fragile second [...]

Nothing makes sense.
In an effort to deal with this overwhelming urge to kick someone’s teeth in, I chose to scrapbook. While I haven’t found it to be generally soothing, it’s an extremely useful endeavor. Actually, I’m hoping to generate enough useless shit so that when I die the grands will be able to gather [...]

Bill Clinton indulges in a bit of demagoguery by proxy when he reminds us that a vote for Hillary is a vote for himself and his policies.
Hillary Rodham Clinton will bring America “back to the future,” husband Bill says, promoting his own legacy in public life almost as much as his wife’s presidential campaign.
Speaking [...]

Today is the day after Zoe died and I’m inexplicably angry at losing her. Not mad at God, I’m simply harboring a deep seated, lustful rage against the injustice of it. I want her back. NOW.
I understand that anger is ‘part of the process’, but please; I know she’s dead. [...]