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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 […]

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 […]

As long as I’m going on about Granddaughter Number One, I just have to mention her book. My wife was selected by frecklebox.com to review their personalized gifts for children. They took our granddaughter’s name and sent her a personalized book.
To be honest, I expected one of those “personalized” books that are of such low […]

I am SO not happy right now. A young person I know (who shall remain nameless) received a good, stiff slap across the face today from her husband of 4 months. When she figured out that the general consensus among people SHE CALLED to cry at about it was that she should dump his worthless […]

I heard this from my eighth-grade daughter yesterday and today and I’m still not quite able to believe it.
As a little background information, once a year the schools in Arkansas give their students the Benchmark tests. This is a government-mandated test that is part of the wonder that is “No Child Left Behind”. In […]