The (Other) End of the Internet

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Daughter Number Three is all up in arms. It seems that one of her friends mentioned to her that they were having a problem with zits and wanted to find the best acne treatment for them. Now, and I’m still […]

What ever happened to awarding a position to someone based on their qualifications rather than their ethnicity? The headline at cnn.com today says, “Obama: She ‘will make a great justice’” and the article goes on to talk about federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor and the fact that she would be the first Hispanic and third female […]

My sister forwarded me another email this morning that I simply MUST rant about. I’m sure most people have probably seen this email in one form or another; according to snopes.com, it’s been circulating since August of 2006.
The email in question talks about how this person was stung by a bee and they simply put […]

I have been taking prednisone to fight the effects of rheumatoid arthritis for about the last 12 years. There are several side effects of long-term use of corticosteroids (which I’ll probably be listing in an upcoming post), but the one that I consider the biggest annoyance - even more than always being hungry and looking […]

Daughter Number One has been talking about getting herself a laptop computer. Since buying a laptop is a major investment decision that should not be made lightly, I offered her these 5 tips in an attempt to help prepare her for making the best and most well informed decision when buying her laptop.
1) Check […]

I finally got the chance to see Iron Man recently. I can’t say anything about whether it followed the comic books at all because, frankly, when I was reading comic books, Iron Man wasn’t my cup of tea. I was more of a Fantastic Four and Superman fan. I will say, however, that the movie […]

I need to preface this idea with a little information, and a completely unscientific opinion of my own.
Granddaughter Number One has preferred to go to sleep while lying on my chest from day one. I can get that child to go to sleep when nobody else can. All I have to do is get her […]

Daughter Number Three has had a thing for videos by The Chipmunks for quite a while. I mean, to the point of driving me to distraction by quoting Alvin, Simon, and Theodore at some point during virtually every conversation.
Recently, however, she heard Carrie Underwood’s newest release, “I Told You So“, and she’s been walking around […]

Today, for the first time in 232 years, America has a black man as President. Note that I said, “black man” and not “African-American”. First off, I think the phrase “African-American” is completely stupid. The way I see it, you can be African or you can be American. You cannot be both. Secondly, President Obama […]

I’ve posted here before about some of the gross missuses of the English language which occur nightly on our local TV news, but the other night somebody flipped the “stupid button” into turbo mode.
For the last several months, KAIT has been going on about “The Big Switch” in February, when the government requires all […]