September 2010
5 posts
Try try again
Here I am @ a KC coffeeshop thinking I’ll give this site another go.
January 2010
2 posts
Of corporations and campaign limits →
Here I am running my mouth on campaign limits:
On Friday, though, area experts and consultants played down the possibility of a torrent of corporate political commercials and campaigns — at least in the short term.
Direct political advocacy, they said, usually makes someone mad.
“If you bring the boardroom into politics, you bring politics into the boardroom,” said Kansas City political and...
December 2009
50 posts
“Somehow the president has managed to turn a base of new and progressive voters...”
– Drew Westen, Huffington Post (12/22/09)
“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt...”
– Cicero, 65 BC
Hollywood's depressing movies are, you guessed it,...
bowlingalleylawyer:
randyhaddock:
Newsweek never fails to deliver some great humor:
You can blame Hollywood’s doom and gloom on the Oscars, but I’m not going to. Instead, I think it’s George W. Bush’s fault. Most liberal directors felt restless under his presidency, and they pushed the envelope with over-the-top, operatic tragedies.
Something even funnier? This is not a satirical piece....
Circadian rhythms
I am sleeping more this winter than in past, having decided to give in to the circadian rhythms that tell me to go to bed when it is dark out. In fact, I think I could approach full-hibernation if my kids would quit interrupting me with their demands for such trifles as food, water, and changing poopy diapers.
Romy and Michele at the White House →
A send-up of DC’s social scene.
what's one more addiction?
The DeLonghi espresso machine was $107 at Macy’s. I drink about 2 or 3 large soy latte’s a day. If each latte has a retail price of about $4, the machine will pay for itself in less than three weeks (including costs of soy milk).
Now I just need to start hoarding coffee shop cups so I can enter with my own drink without arousing suspicion.
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“…so I made her have an abortion.”
– Highest quotential when a cocktail party suddenly becomes quiet.
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regarding my recently deceased father
Maureen (age 3): Dad, did you know that penises and vaginas are the same thing? Penises and vaginas.
Me: Well they aren't the same thing, boys have one and girls have the other.
Maureen: That's right, I have a vagina and you have a penis. And your brothers have a penis. And your dad has a penis--a dead penis.
Why bother?
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“Because I’m black?”
– Quotential response to police question, “Do you know why I pulled you over?”
if only...
Maureen (age 4): Caroline, Mom is having a party tonight for her book club.
Caroline (age 7): Wow, so everyone sits and reads their book? That's a lot of quiet for a party.
Lucas never got his due.
winter resolutions
I am going to grow my beard and take up smoking my pipe again. Also, put on 150 lbs.
“Protons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.”
– A bumpersticker I have somewhere
“One of the disappointments of last night’s speech is that Obama didn’t share...”
– George Packer (via mattpayton)