Monthly Archives: July 2010
Sunday Roast: Love – What’s up with that?
What is love? Why do we want it? Why do we need it?
According to the Wikipedia…
Love is any of a number of emotions related to a sense of strong affection and attachment. The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure (“I loved that meal”) to intense interpersonal attraction (“I love my wife”).
So love can be anything from your favorite recliner, to the feeling that draws us together to continue the existence of the species, to passion, or to the warmth of companionship. For some, love might be “for now,” for others “forever,” and the feeling attached may be equally intense.
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Congress Giveth, and Congress Taketh Away
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Matt Davies, NY Journal News
Hidden Logic
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Matt Davies, NY Journal News
So, you can carry a gun into Church, into a Bar, pretty much anywhere you want to go. But you can’t carry a gun to Court? What’s up with that?
We’re left with only two places where someone carrying a concealed weapon is highly unlikely: a court of law and a nudist colony.
Kaganology
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Jack Ohman, Portland Oregonian
Economic Fun Fair!
Another great animated cartoon by Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Fiore!
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Categorically Speaking…
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Steve Sack, Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water…
Court Rejects Moratorium on Drilling in the Gulf
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Matt Davies, NY Journal News
Protected: Swimmin’ hole
Inscrutable
A horned lizard soaking up the mid-day rays.
“Che”, or Grandfather to the Navajo, it is regarded as a keeper of ancient wisdoms.
I find them up as high as 10,000 feet in the mountains, they eat ants almost exclusively.
The Watering Hole: Open For Business
This is our open thread. As always, your thoughts and comments are welcome and appreciated.
Music night. Happy Birthday, Lucia
I think that my “theme” for Friday nights has become an educational experience for me, giving me the opportunity to randomly discover music I’d never heard. For the rest of the people who visit here, these videos are a place holder, but I’m enjoying the process so neener neener.
Lucia Micarelli is a Julliard-trained violinist working the musical seam of ore between rock and classical music. She has toured with Josh Groban, who produced her first album, as well as with Jethro Tull and Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Because TSO has a westcoast and an eastcoast troupe, the concert master I met backstage was not Lucia Micarelli. However, the concertmaster I did meet, Anna Phoebe, has also toured with Jethro Tull. None of which is particularly relevant. More videos below the jump and as usual, feel free to share music.
The Watering Hole: July 9 – Books
source: www.stephenclarkwriter.com
Finding a new authors and new books to enjoy is always one of my greatest pleasures. It happened again. I have fallen in love with a book.
Stephen Clarke
1000 Years of Annoying the French
Other books on my nightstand make quite a motley collection:
Ken Follett, Pillars of the Earth
Val McDermid, Fever of the Bone
Douglas Preston, Blasphemy
Stephen King, The Stand
Any suggestions what to read next?
This is our open thread. Just say what’s on your mind.
Down in the Foxhole
I truly believe the trio on “Fox & Friends” are doing the nation a huge disservice. Oh, sure, they’re entertaining because they don’t know what they’re talking about. But they’re dangerous because they work hard to convince their audience that they do know what they’re talking about. And their audience (as far as the ones they’re intending to reach) are not the type inclined to do their own fact-checking. For that they rely on Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck. Luckily for us there’s Newshounds (motto: “We watch FOX so you don’t have to.”) So I wrote this parody about the dimwits (and by “dimwits”, I mean Steve Doocy, Gretchen Carlson, and Brian Kilmeade, in case anyone thinks I’m being vague) on “Fox & Friends”. I hope you enjoy it. (And I thank you, Jane, for your help.)
Down in the Foxhole
Original words and music “Down on the Corner” by John Fogarty,
Additional lyrics by Wayne A. Schneider
Early in the mornin’, just about breakfast time
Over on the Fox set, they’re startin’ with no minds
Three dips on the TV, tryin’ to stir you up
Rupert picks a theme out and they all begin to harp
Down in the Foxhole, out comes deceit
Gretchy and the Dumb Boys are spinnin’
Keep it simple, tap the heat
Brian hits the stupid, and people just got to smile
Continue reading
Republican Girl
This could really be about any of them. Sarah Palin. Michelle Bachmann. Liz Cheney. Phyllis Schlafly. They’re all out there, so detached from reality. Maybe you can name some more. 
As usual, thank you, Jane, for your help.
Republican Girl
Original words and music “American Girl” by Tom Petty
Additional lyrics by Wayne A. Schneider
Well, she was a Republican girl
Raised on premises
She couldn’t help thinkin’ that she
Was a little more Pro-Life than all else
After all it was a Continue reading
President Obama, you do have a crystal ball — it’s called the GTFO order
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Paul Jamiol, Jamiol’s World
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Drunky is as Drunky does…
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Steve Sack, Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Oompa loompa logic…
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Paul Jamiol, Jamiol’s World
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Sacrificial (post-born) lamb…
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John Cole, Scranton, PA Times-Tribune
The Watering Hole, July 8–Rigour and honesty not in doubt
The Independent Climate Change Email Review was set up by the University of East Anglia (UEA) after more than 1,000 e-mails were hacked from its servers.
Climate “sceptics” claimed the e-mails showed that UEA scientists manipulated and suppressed key climate data.
But these accusations are largely dismissed by the report.
The review found nothing in the e-mails to undermine Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports.
In a shocking development, a “skeptic” organization refused to accept the vindication.
Dr Peiser added that that the issue would “not go away with this report”.
“We (the Global Warming Policy Foundation) have now commissioned our own inquiry into the way these three inquiries have been set up and run,” he said. “I don’t know anyone among the critics who has been swayed by the first two.”
I know I’m surprised by Dr Peiser’s comments. It’s almost as if nothing would convince him and his group.
This is our open thread. Feel free to rant.
Mountain beauties
My favorite cactus here in the Southwest mountains, the beehive cactus.
This one was blooming nearly six weeks ago in the Wahoo Mountains of the Gila National Forest. The entire plant is barely 4″ tall.
The summer monsoons are just now beginning, more blooms to come…
The Watering Hole: July 7 – Stay Cool
A dangerous and record-challenging heat wave will affect much of the East this week as high pressure anchored offshore of the Carolinas continues to act as a heat pump.
In some locations this heat wave will rival many that have occurred in the past 20 years with the potential for up to a several-day stretch of temperatures in the upper 90s to low 100s from southern New England to the Carolinas. (read more)
This is our open thread. The perfect chill-zone.
The Watering Hole: July 6 – For a very special boy
He is twelve today and he’s the world to me. One of his favs.
This is our open thread. Anybody else having his birthday today?
The day paradise put up an…everything
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Steve Sack, Minneapolis Star-Tribune
And now, from the Dead Zone, formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico — The Deadest Catch!
