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Saturation Saturday Redux: Green Again

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The First Law of Thermodynamics

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Food & Fashion

Take a good look at this fashion model. No really - take a long look and form an opinion of her physique.Got it?OK, I googled "skinny model" and this was the first image I found that I felt I could post where the line between fashion and slimness was...

Political Signage

With the ability to post a picture on Facebook available to anyone with an internet connection there is a lot of political commentary that crawls through the photoshop process before leaking out into the collective unconscious of the cyber cesspool....

Saturation Saturday Redux: Green

Seems an appropriate day for some green exploration, above - the Chicago River dyed for St. Patrick's Day.another timely ph...

Lip Dub

"A lip dub is a type of video that combines lip synching and audio dubbing to make a music video. Usually made by filming a group of people lip synching while listening to a song or any recorded audio then dubbing over it in post...

Mississippi For Instance

Yes, in Mississippi Rick Santorum got a couple more votes than the other guys.Yes, between them the ultra-conservative Santorum and the slimy not as conservative Newt Gingrich got over 64% of the vote yesterday.No, all of you liberals and other sane...

The Government Made Me Do It

I heard it again the other day in what was a reasoned debate/conversation about the financial crisis of the past few years, someone said: "It wasn't Wall Street and the banks that made all those loans, they were forced to lower their lending standards...

Rush Limbaugh & Mike Doonesbury

So are you a "Dump Rush" but a "Keep Doonesbury" liberal. Or perhaps a "Burn Doonesbury" and "Liberate Limbaugh" conservative. Or might you be a independent free-thinker who can go both ways?It seems Garry Trudeau has gone too far with this coming week's...

More Juxtaposition

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Juxtaposition

When I went to bed last night I knew the moon would be precisely full just after 1 a.m. west coast time. Autosuggestion can be powerful, I woke up with the bright white orb hanging high over San Francisco casting a bright white spot across the floor...

Make It a Clown Parade

I am going to guess that some of my readers were slightly insulted by my post yesterday in which I referred to the four remaining republican candidates as clowns.I just wanted to set the record straight today for those who have forgotten my opinion of...

Stupor Tuesday

Vermont, Virginia, Massachusetts, Idaho and Wyoming to the sad, humorless clown;Oklahoma, North Dakota and Tennessee to the bozo who loves barefoot, pregnant, mute women;Georgia to the oft divorced pudgy clown;and bunch of convention votes to the libertarian...

Chocolate

Researchers at Cambridge University have published results in the British Medical Journal that confirm what I have known prayed for my entire life."Based on observational evidence, levels of chocolate consumption seem to be associated with a substantial...

Half Right

Eenie Meenie Chili Beanie.Back on January 7th I made this prediction:Feb. 28 Arizona & Michigan - Romney wins both; everyone else quits.I guess you could say I was half right and a week off. It will take until next Tuesday for everyone else...

Because . . .

This is wrong!The church says so.The republicans say so.Even the bible says so, you can find it in Noah 1:...

From Japan With Love

Twenty-five million tons of debris from the tsunami in Japan last year is heading for the west coast of the U.S. and Canada. That's 25,000,000 tons or 50,000,000,000 pounds. "Most" of it is not radioactive because the wave action of the tsunami swept...

Eight Articles of Interest

A far flung smorgasbord of information today. I'll bet even my L.A. friends can find something they will enjoy.#1 (Goodbye Japan?)We may yet lose Tokyo. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant continues to discharge radiation into the air and the ocean....

Conservatism 1964 & 2012

One of my friends made the observation the other day that the 2012 election was not at all like the 1964 election. The '64 campaign led the conservative republican candidate Barry Goldwater to lose in a landslide to Lyndon Johnson. My conservative friend's...

Cold, Cold Heart

While I continue to ponder and wallow in the future of this blog, I thought I might offer up a bit more of the reasoning behind this reevaluation. Don't turn away from this insightful and factual article by Kathy Kelly about her pending excursion to...

A Question for the Ladies

I mean this question in all seriousness. If you are a woman how can you possibly consider voting for the republicans? They are quite openly attacking you in thought, word and deed. This does not mean I suggest you vote for Barack, that argument will...

Bay Bridge Closure

SUNDAY EVENING 8 PM - The Bay Bridge has reopened 34 hrs ahead of schedule. Guess I'll be spending the weekend in the East B...

Information Overload

Yes information overload is real.Yes we contribute to it by surfing mindlessly from website to website.I delete dozens of URLs from my history every month, you know all those sites you were going to get to tomorrow. I even found what should have been...

Top Six plus One Articles of the Recent Past

"Be careful who sieves your access to information, it might be me or it could be Rupert Murdock."#1 (Dead or Alive?)I really enjoy having a widely accepted "truth" crushed under the weight of cold, hard facts. Makes my little academic heart go all...

Art & The Other Guy

How good is your presidential memory?Really you forgot these two already?I know, I know - Florida!Bob Dole and Jack Kemp '96A one term Bush.George H.W. beat these guys.Buried under the Reagan "Landslide"No reelection for Carter.No one could have won...