My, so much discord around here lately. The Legislature is taking a cruise day before the finale of its session, so let’s do the same. Let’s revel in the sunshine. Let’s be happy. Let’s dance. To help you along, I give you this video forwarded to me by my friend Buck Donham in Arkansas. Watch [...]
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Happy feet and jive spirits
May 4, 2011Sucking wind
April 22, 2011I’ve been dragging for the past week from the triple curse of a bad cold, hot humidity and vog, which combine to leave me gasping and glued to my recliner by lethargy and perspiration. All that gets me through the days is the hope that the weather will change and bring some relief. Every night [...]
Getting my ash examined
April 6, 2011My work flow lately has been rudely interrupted by a colonoscopy, which is quite a traumatic series of events when you include the unpleasant preparation and sweating out the pathology results in the aftermath (which thankfully resulted in good news in my case). This is one of those medical procedures that when I younger, I [...]
The night before the holiday we don’t mention
December 16, 2010I had a lovely time last night at my grandkids’ school Christmas show, which was actually called Winter Fest because you can’t say Christmas in public anymore without getting the PC police all up in your business. Talk about a contrast; one of my girls played an elephant and the other played a kolea (which [...]
The TSA’s ‘grope-a-dope’ strategy
November 19, 2010I’ve earned the right to be a little bit amused by the national uproar over airport body scans and pat downs by security officers. As a wheelchair passenger who can’t go through metal detectors or x-ray scanners, I’ve been subjected to extreme pat downs ever since 9/11. I won’t go into the sordid details, but [...]
Path of least resistance
October 15, 2010I’m tired after parrying with commenters yesterday when I was supposed to be working on my flashbacks column, so I’m going to buckle down on that and avoid writing anything provocative today. Let’s just say, Go ‘Bows! … er, Warriors!
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