I've only rarely seen snow at all during winter, much less at Christmas time (despite the many songs about it). But we finally got snow! It started snowing yesterday afternoon through the evening, and it has lasted through Christmas morning.
I don't deserve to lose out on healthcare because of the Petulance from Connecticut. People of Connecticut, will you please make your voices heard and vote this ass-hat out?
As I was driving along in mah home town about 20 years ago, I happened to glance down and notice that there was a GIANT CRAB-SHAPED SPIDER on my leg.
I swerved to the right and jumped OUT of the car with it still on and possibly not in park, beating at my leg and screaming hysterically.
Fortunately, there just so happened to be a gas station right there, but if there hadn't been, this might have been me:
Yes, but are they African or European octopi?
America is what it is due to our Constitution. It is the basis of all of our freedoms. Why does O'Reilly hate freedom?
“If you are accused, you get to know what you know what you are accused of, you get to face your accusers, and you get to defend yourself in court, and then you face a trial and a conviction. This is who we are as a system,” said Tom Andrews, director of the National Campaign to Close Guantanamo. “The Taliban? You can get a trial and a beheading in a few hours. That’s not our system of justice.”
~Ken Gude, Center for American Progress
The best way to combat terrorism is to avoid being terrorists ourselves. If our Democracy doesn't even work for us, why would we try to import it to anyone else?
It's that time of year again in WoW ... time to complete the Brewfest series of quests. While pondering the exact nature
When I was in high school, I auditioned for the Ft. Worth Youth Orchestra. For some reason, the director got us a gig at Octoberfest, where drunken adults were going to weave around from booth to booth and start arguments on the merits of one beer over another. Yes, THAT Octoberfest.
So we went down to the Convention Center in downtown Ft. Worth and set up on our stage. The very first thing we played ... Pizzicato Polka. What is pizzicato, you might ask? Pizzicato is when stringed instruments pluck their strings instead of bow across them. It is very short, staccato, and not very loud.
So the drunks couldn't hear us very well AT ALL. That didn't stop them from shouting in inebriated exuberance, though. Yes, good times.