Monday: Finding truth in the weirdest places

I’ve become an audible junkie.  Listening to books is the next best thing to reading them, leaving your hands free to do other things, like scrubbing your grout (which I never do, but I have that option).  So, yesterday, I was listening to In The Woods, the 2007 Edgar Award winning novel by Tana French, [...]

Your Breakfast read, served by The Confluence

Considering the mood of the country after the Republican rule, the enormous mandate the Democratic agenda received from the American people and his shellacking of McCain, Obama had the opportunity to bury Reagonomics once for all and decisively shift the direction of the country. He did some of it but I think he wasn’t bold [...]

Waiting On the World to Change

I don’t just have a special interest in the next few years in Politics because of my status as a Budding Mystic. I actually happen to have a future to look forward to, dreams to strive for, ect. Let’s just thanks all the Gods I have decided to go into Healthcare for now. It’s a [...]

Swine flu: here we go again

update below The news is spreading everywhere: Mexico flu ‘a potential pandemic’. In the next few days we’ll probably have a replay of the bad old bird flu days. Tamiflu! Hide in your house! Shoot the postman! Or whatever level of idiocy we achieve this time. I did one of my POPs (Pissed Off Posts) [...]

Sunday Midday Open Thread

I just wanted an excuse to post this graphic. What are you doing today?

Your Breakfast read, served by The Confluence

Where is the SoS today? U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton flew to Beirut on Sunday to meet with Lebanese officials ahead of a critical election that could see a pro-U.S. government ousted by the militant Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah and its allies. One of the US victims of “torturegate”? US interpreter who witnessed [...]

70′s Flashback Open Thread

Before there was MTV or VH1 if you wanted to see music on television there were variety shows like Sonny & Cher and late night music on weekends like Midnight Special. (I wasn’t supposed to stay up that late but what my mom didn’t know didn’t hurt her) Most televisons had cheap “mono” speakers so [...]

WTF Open Thread

I first saw this commercial over at Tennessee Guerrilla Women a couple days ago (I’ve seen it on television since then) The egregious sexism aside, what the f*ck do phone book shaped butts on women have to do with kids meals?  Are they implying that if you eat the meals you’ll get a big square [...]

Bea Arthur – May 13, 1922 – April 25, 2009

A Diva has passed away. Bea Arthur – probably the best TV & stage comedienne since Lucille Ball – died today at the age of 86 from cancer. From Wiki: In 1972, Arthur was cast as the title character in the television series Maude. She played Maude Findlay, an outspoken liberal living in the affluent [...]

The Search for ET Intelligence

Actually, what I’m about to discuss is the search for ET life, but you have to start somewhere and it’s getting more clear by the day that alien intelligence is the best hope for us blog denizens to find someone to talk to. I’ll back up a bit and explain why I’m so interested in [...]