The (Other) End of the Internet

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

My brother just sent me an interesting web page. It’s at http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/live_tv.html and, as you can tell by the URL, it’s a streaming video feed from NASA. Sounds like a really great way to watch repairs on the Hubble telescope and space shuttle launches without network television’s annoying habit of breaking in every 15 minutes […]

It’s been another one of those weeks… It seems that every time I turn on the computer and try to write something here, something else jumps up and requires my immediate attention. As a result, I am now going to write about something that the whole country has been talking about for a week and […]

I saw on the evening news last night that Paul Harvey has passed away at the age of 90.
I remember 40 years ago when I was a very young child and Mom used to listen to his broadcast every afternoon. At that young age I really didn’t understand what he was talking about and had […]

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 […]

The people who do the newscast at this end of the internet are so stuck on their proverbial treadmills - just getting the job done without any thought to what they’re doing - that I had to laugh out loud at their newscast tonight.
They did a report about the dangers of cold weather and the […]

Once again, I’m a day late commenting about this, but that seems to be standard procedure these days.
Anywho…
I heard on the news last night that Circuit City is going to become the latest victim of this recession. That’s a shame. I’ve only shopped there one time, when I bought a 486 back when they were […]

The local news people did it again.
Last evening they ran that same tired old report they run every year explaining all the things you should do to avoid “busted pipes”. What drives me up the wall about this annual report is not the fact that it’s the same list that’s been hammered into our heads […]

I saw on the news last night that Barack Obama’s Treasury Secretary-designate Timothy Geithner, “forgot” to pay $34,000 in self-employment taxes from 2001-2004.
Ummm… How?
Seriously, how do you FORGET to pay $34,000 in taxes over a three year period, especially when the IRS is issuing the occasional reminder?
This sounds like something I heard Steve Martin […]

Daughter Number Two found this article with StumbleUpon and I just HAD to do what I could to help get the word out about this outrage.
Picture this: It’s 8PM, and you’re a mother seeing to it that the kids get bathed and ready for school in the morning when the circuit breaker trips and the […]