My Soap Box

I finally found out what the big deal with 12,21,12 is and no, it’s not that it is palindromic. If that’s even a word. No, the big deal is the celestial alignment! “What?” you ask. That is the day when, as happens every 27,000 years, the sun is lined up directly between earth and the center of our... Sign in to see full entry.

This book by Craig Ferguson (make that TV’s Craig Ferguson) host of the Late Late Show is a study in, first, how not to live your life and then how to live your life. In a TV landscape increasingly populated by talk-shows and their hosts, Craig stands out. It isn’t so much his rambling monologues,... Sign in to see full entry.

Ok, its hard to find things to get a good rant worked up over, but I may have found it in today’s newspaper. The headline reads, “In-home nudist convicted.” I thought right away this would be another case of big brother breathing down our, or at least his bare neck. Nudists, after all, fascinate... Sign in to see full entry.

As more troops prepare to deploy in Afghanistan I cannot help but wish them safe passage and success in their mission. The mission, to get the Afghanis self sufficient in their security and bring about peace seems to be all but impossible, if past history is any indication. Today I heard the Taliban... Sign in to see full entry.

A buck for your thoughts! I had this crazy idea that Thanksgiving would fly by and was I ever right. Now the weekend draws to a close and we are left to our house and cats again. Everybody ate more than they should and a few drank more than they should, but being the hosts, we couldn’t afford that... Sign in to see full entry.

Sarah Palin, in an effort to project a more international image is preparing for a visit to Ireland. She has been studying the Irish language and dialects in an attempt to betting fit in with the locals while she is there promoting her new book. Come to think of if the book is all about that lingual... Sign in to see full entry.

I just noticed my e-mail box has a size of 20 megabytes. Then it struck me, our first computer, which by the way cost nearly $5000 dollars, had a hard drive that was 20 megabytes! The computer I am using now has two hard drives, one of which is 500 or so gigabytes and our son put it together for us... Sign in to see full entry.

“Hey buddy, can you give me a jump start?” Of course it is our first instinct to give a fellow driver a hand but there are risks associated with the seemingly simple jump start. First, do you or the driver asking for the jump thoroughly understand the procedure? Hook up those cables wrong and you... Sign in to see full entry.

What did Dave do to get everyone up in arms? Only the same thing he endlessly pokes fun at others for doing. So everyone, take a page from Dave’s book and ruthlessly run this into the ground. Hey Sarah Palin, now is the time for you to hone up on your Dave zingers, which by the way is a new candy... Sign in to see full entry.

Or – How I spent my summer vacation. Oh right, I didn’t get a summer vacation. My summer was filled with house re-modeling and work with only a day off here and there. Now, it is far too late in the night for me to be up, but I feel I need to take some time for me. I know I haven’t posted in quite a... Sign in to see full entry.