Received a phone call from sis on Friday. The results of the PET scan had come in. They brought confirmation of what we had strongly suspected but fervently hoped against. Dad, on the threshold of 78, is also in the first stages of Alzheimers. Here on this Father’s Day, may I tell you a little […]
I swapped email today with a friend who lives in Cape Town, South Africa. It put me in remembrance of the day I snapped this picture, right below Table Mountain in Cape Town. . .  It was a good day. The shot is of the “12 Apostles”—the series of 12 peaks which stretch southward from […]
This week, Sen. Reid , insulted two of the most decorated and accomplished leaders in our military. Two men with lifetimes of unblemished service to our country. I think it’s time to bring Dennis Miller back out. Here Dennis shares some thoughts about the distinguished Senator: It is maddening to think that this guy is […]
I’m a big fan of the old Wallace & Grommit claymation films. In recent weeks I had been seeing some CBS promos for a new series by W&G creator Nick Park in which regular Americans (meaning eccentrics, oddballs, and neurotics) are interviewed and then the audio is put into the mouths of claymation characters. It’s hard to […]
Apparently some television show called “The Sopranos,” which apparently is not about four blue-haired ladies in a small town church choir as I had originally assumed, has reached some sort of remarkable denouement that has generated much buzzulation on the Internets. I josh, of course. Although I have seen only a small handful of episodes […]
In this post, I responded to an op-ed column in which (usually) conservative columnist, Linda Chavez, pretty much labeled anyone who opposed the immigration bill, a racist. Her assertions were so outrageous and malicious, and rightly sparked such widespread shock and awe, I’ve been wondering if some sort of apology was going to be forthcoming […]
Now that the charging bull elephant known as the McCain-Kennedy-Kyl-Bush amnesty (the operative word in that description being “bull”) has been stunned by a two-by-four between the eyes in form of a populist/conservative uprising and, for now, is staggering backwards with stars and little bluebirds circling its head. . . . . .it would seem a good […]
Here are a few other miscellaneous items from that old issue of R.D. [Cover Image] (If you don’t know what I’m talking about, see here. And Parts 1, 2 and 3 below.) • The positioning statement on the cover says, “Articles of Lasting Interest.” Well, I would say so. Forty-six years later I’m reading them and writing about […]
Snapped at a airport in Japan. . . From the very amusing Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness (Note: some mildly off-color commentary), where you will also find. . .
This is probably my favorite item in the entire issue. The writer is Harland Manchester (a name, by the way, that shouts “fictional character in a bad romance novel) and his article is pretty much an expansion of the subtitle; or to paraphrase, “Space is scary and we have better things to do with our money than […]
