I have a morning routine. After a brief and largely ceremonial grooming ritual, I stagger in to my home office, sit down, and wake up the computer. Gently. Then two steps follow: 1. Check DrudgeReport to see if a nuclear device has been detonated in a major U.S. city overnight. If answer is, “No,” proceed […]
Half of immigrants in Texas are there illegally, study says: State has one of the fastest-growing immigrant populations.
This explains oh, so very much. In most cases, exercise alone, according to a team of scientists at the University of Missouri, isn’t enough to take off those added pounds. The problem, they say, is that all the stuff we’ve heard the last few years about weight control left one key factor out of the […]
Well, we actually had a couple of days and nights last week that were cold enough to rationalize a fire in the fireplace. But now highs have jumped back up into the 60s with more and some 70s forecast right through the first week of December. If I can ever dig out of work hole […]
Having Thanksgiving behind us means we’ve all jumped on the steep, Crisco-slathered slide to Christmas and the New Year. Better hold on to your tuque, eh. The Blather clan made a quick 36-hour run to Oklahoma City for feasting and football. The venue was Mrs Blather’s mom’s and stepdad’s. The gratitude was running particularly high this year because last Christmas Pa-pa, as the […]
Comedienne/actress Brett Butler was once asked why she had never had children. Her reply was: “I never want to be the object of that much ingratitude.” Sure, kids can certainly operate in a high level of entitlement. (I know, I was one of those kids.) But you want ingratitude? Imagine what it is like for […]
What a great story. One hundred of American’s finest young men and women are sworn in to the Tennessee National Guard at halftime of the UT-Vanderbilt football game as 107,000 standing fans cheer.
Netscape co-founder and internet pioneer Marc Andreessen has blogged some thoughts about the current writer’s strike. An excerpt: So imagine you’re a major media mogul, a captain of the film and television business, a shaper of global culture, one of the anointed few who can green-light major entertainment projects. You’re faced with a massive, once-in-a-lifetime […]
Like celebrity deaths and Stooges, my blog posts on obscure topics seem to be running in threes. So, here’s the final installment of my Bonanza triptych. And as it happens, it’s about the number 3! (weird) Several years ago (as in 20-25) I recall reading a book in which the author put forth an interesting theory about television […]
This Internet thing is amazing. It may really catch on someday. A few days ago I made some goofy comments, as is my penchant, {say it with the French pronunciation}, about a certain 1960s-era cover of “16” magazine {16-mag-cover.jpg}. One of the headlines was “Landon vs Parnell: Scoop on the Big Bonanza Breakup,” and I […]
