Politics

Sarah Palin’s Farewell (First Draft)

Hello, my fellow Alaskans, who really — well, those liberals there, they’d have you — and those taxes, whooo-hoo, what makes us Americans?  Not on my watch, and that’s why I — my refrigerator, we call it a fridge, like most American families, and that is where the goodness in this nation is — we…
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Pig-Dog Conservatives

CPAC — the Conservative Political Action Committee met last week (and no, I don’t care to find out where and precisely when, but it was in February 2009 if you’re curious.)  Every Republican who wants his name in the paper was there (oh, and I am deliberately being non-inclusive in my choice of pronoun here,…
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Te Deum

Ah, how well the ancients knew that life is fleeting; that, indeed, all is vanity.  Not that I’m saying they were right in every respect: I’m just saying what they felt, more or less.  It must have been bracing to see a young friend’s body carried off in a cart, dead as a kabob, the…
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All that, and for what?

Okay, I just pretty much put the finishing touches on our first attempt at a web site.  It’s a lot more robust than the one I had 12 years ago, which was all done in raw html with a program called Web Edit.  Hoo boy, did I think I was fancy!  Unfortunately, the site was…
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