My Soap Box

A political satire close to the election, coincidence - or part of a conspiracy to cash in on the political madness? First, Robin Williams fans should like this one. There are lots of classic Williams lines and bits here set to the backdrop of a presidential campaign. If you think the two major... Sign in to see full entry.

Ok, here’s another home made Little Johnny joke. You see, I was mowing the lawn and I was wondering what I was going to post here tonight. I challenged myself to make up a Little Johnny joke, so here is how it went. Well, first, Little Johnny is always in trouble with his mother, his teacher or a... Sign in to see full entry.

North Koreans worship Kim Jong Idiot like a god. It was on a segment of Oprah. A team of doctors went to North Korea to perform cataract surgeries as a humanitarian gesture. They allowed a reporter to go along under cover. What she revealed was chilling. First, no one, not one person in North Korea... Sign in to see full entry.

RE the last post, our new car, not even a week old and a stupid deer had to run into the side of it. It just doesn’t seem fair. Finally, we had something we picked out completely, we loved it so far and on it’s sixth day of service, KAPOW some dumb-assed deer had to check it’s dimensional integrity.... Sign in to see full entry.

Yes, a new car sits in my garage. Is it possible to have an emotional attachment to a vehicle? I actually felt a little sad to see our old car go down the road. Hell, it was only ten years old, some sort of a record for me. At 106,000 miles it still has a lot of mileage left on it. So why a new car?... Sign in to see full entry.

Or maybe it’s just me. I feel the world is closing in around me and I start to sweat. Now I realize the cause of these strange sensations. Yes, it is global warming, but more than that, it is the population of the United States ready to top 300 million and growing. All those people need somewhere to... Sign in to see full entry.

October has just started and I can’t wait for November. Why November? Because the election will be done and the flood of political ads will abate. Particularly troublesome are the attack ads. You know, “my opponent is so dumb, if they had a brain cell, it would be a cell phone on hold.” I don’t... Sign in to see full entry.

Today was a very long and good day, overall. Five-thirty a.m. saw me heading for the shower. Later, my brother and I took my sister to the airport. At eight-thirty, we bid her bon voyage and headed off to pick up a laundry room sink. They didn’t have the faucet I wanted, so it was off to another... Sign in to see full entry.

Vanilla or Chocolate? I usually opt for the swirl ice cream cone. But there are some choices one simply has to make that are without a safe middle ground. Recently I had to make such a decision. We have reached that point in our life where we can get a new car. Not a used car, but a new one. That... Sign in to see full entry.

The times, they are a changin’ and that’s for sure. I am looking at a receipt from the Mount Carmel hospital in Colville, Washington. It is dated May 27, 1947 and is the bill for when I was born. The stay was 8 days @ $5.00 per day! The delivery room charge was $10.00 and care of the infant (me in... Sign in to see full entry.