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TGIF!

Which is good, because I need a break of sorts. Although-since I was on a trip last week, I’ve really not so much to complain about. But it means its time for these: And would that there were some of...

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I’ve been remiss……

In putting up a link to this new blog. Spike-who lives where I wish I could live, is a fine photographer among his many talents. And he now has a nice collection of those over at his new photo...

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Too good not to repeat.

Stumbled on this over at John Cole’s place. It’s from a comment thread from a post about the latest bat shit crazy idea proposal from our Galtian Overlords. I thought it was so clever, I had to post it...

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Super Bowl Sunday

Steelers -Packers. With all due respect to the Cheese heads, the packers are going down. Which is kind of fitting-since this very well may be the last football game played in 2011. Players and owners...

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War movies……from the other side.

In Japan lately there have been a lot of commercials for this movie: The movie’s title is : Taiheiyo no kiseki –fokksu to yobareta otoko ( or, Miracle of the Pacific: The Man Called Fox). Story...

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The King’s Speech

The S.O. and I went to see this movie this past weekend. Believe it or not we had a hard time getting two seats together-so crowded was the theater. We both loved the movie-even if it did take more...

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Too pissed to post.

My cell phone was stolen tonight-out of a locked locker at the gym. I know because I have torn the house apart and retraced my steps and I know I locked all my stuff away and was careful to make sure...

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What is good for the goose-is good for the gander.

James Webb announced his retirement from the Senate today. It is hardly surprising, and probably not unexpected. Phib and the others tend to view Webb as not having accomplished anything. They are...

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Sexual Hypocrisy……..

It should be no surprise to any regular readers here, that when it comes to sex-I am very open minded and take a pretty liberal view point when it comes to the age old question of “How much is enough?”...

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No good deed goes unpunished…..

Well, silly me-I thought I was done with that proposal I worked on last month. As it turns out-not really. The government came back with what they call-requests for information. Which in essence means...

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The Midas touch…..

Or why the place that Skippy works is on the express train to hell-no local stops. To understand why-lets review some ancient mythological history: The old satyr had been drinking wine and had wandered...

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An open letter to the poster child……

I dispatched the following letter to Congressman West today. That’s right-our boy Allen West.  In Allen West-you find everything that is wrong with the our new Galtian overlords all rolled up into one...

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Valentine’s Day

Is useless on a Monday when deadlines are near. The S.O. came up on the short end of the stick-again. However, in my defense-I did buy her earrings and a ring in Bahrain…………… And we have seen zero...

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Linkage……

When I read this tragic story-I could not help but think, ” That could happen where I work!” A Los Angeles woman died in her cubicle at work last week, but her body wasn’t discovered until the...

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Risk management.

And unlike Nir Rosen-I am not going to apologize for what follows. Lara Logan got beaten and sexually assaulted by a mob of Arabs. And now the world is “shocked” that such a thing would happen to a hot...

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Gym Class

The S.O. and I joined a YMCA after Christmas. The reason we (I) did so was because they have Body Pump classes-which the on base gyms here do not have. Now the S.O-owing in large part to her lack of a...

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What happens when they throw us out?

I’ve been watching the events in Bahrain with considerable interest. Not because I think we can influence events one way or the other, in fact I think our best course is to sit tight and wait events...

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The good idea fairy

Usually makes really bad suggestions. It would seem she is at work again with crop of naive idealists covering the Arab world: It’s rare for me to advocate something as direct as a military action –...

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And I always thought smoking would kill you.

Sorry baby-I’d love to please you but…………….. The human papillomavirus — more commonly known as HPV — causes more oropharyngeal cancers than tobacco and alcohol use, according to researchers at Johns...

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The truth the poster child won’t tell you.

I went to body pump after work tonight. Angie, who is actually a very good instructor, decided that we all needed extra beatings in anticipation of the upcoming weekend. Suffice it to say I was...

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