Well, the long, long "vacation" (and I mean those quotation marks very sardonically) is about over. I've spent just about all my money and now I need to get a job.It's at times like these when a certain denial-paralysis can set in. At least, they have in the past. And this time... I'm starting to suspect it's

People never fail to amuse me. Politicians are at the top of the list.Did you see today's (5/4/08) Record Searchlight article about the report recently filed by a couple of ethics experts on the sex scandal

Wow. Sometimes it just takes a graph to spell something out in its unequivocal wrongness.Take a look at this. Click on it.Reproduced here without any permission whatsoever from Adbuste

Just filled up the tank at my local Safeway. Needed 12 or so gallons, so my total bill was $45.77 or so. But! Because I am (or soon to be, maybe, was) a loyal Safeway shopper, I had swiped my Safeway card before the transaction and was able to save 3 cents per gallon! Yee-haw! Yippee! Wooooo-hoooo! Man, I am IN the

Did anyone notice anything a little odd or unusual about the front page of the Sports section in this past Saturday's Record Searchlight?Here. Let me give you a little help.

It's a gorgeous, warm, sunny day outside.I sit inside, at my computer, eating a bowl of cereal at 3:55 p.m.Why? It appears I have come down with another bug. Remember the bronchial bug from several weeks ago? Well, it seems he must have passed on the news of a good huntin' grounds to his cousin.

Just a quick follow-up to the "Expelled" movie note-- Just heard on NPR about a website that had almost everything Darwin-related online for you to look at. I'm not sure I would say the site is "popular"... unless you consider 7 million hits in a single day a lot. !!Photos, notes to himself, cartoons other peop

I guess a more clever blogger would create two blog entries, but heck.I went out the other night and saw "Expelled." I thought I was going to see a comedy with Ben Stein. What I got was a very engrossing, intelligent, and well-done documentary featuring Ben Stein on the topic of the fight between Darwinists an

Damn. It's starting to happen again.I'm getting those thoughts that I've had, occasionally, on and off, over the years:"I should just pack all this shit up and go find some shack in the mountains for $250 a month. Live simply, live lightly. Disconnect from society and re-connect with my artistic s

Well! I could hardly believe it this morning when, less than two hours after I first posted "Big Fat Belkin Bastards", I was contacted by someone named Melody from Belkin, asking for more info (see comments after first entry). We took our discussion off the blog and I am amazed to report that within a few hours I had the