Please don't make me weather your coed naked dream story

Things people love to talk about that I, well, don't:
- the weather
- my ancestry...or yours
- your golf game
- your fantasy team
- the dream you had last night, unless i was in it or you were naked, or both.

McCain do, Da Bears don't

First Presidential prediction for 2008, subject to lots of changes: John Edwards will lose to John McCain. And while I'm at it for Sunday's Super Bowl - Indianapolis 23, Da Bears 7

Not to be obtuse, but explain the theory of relativity in 20 words or less

How come whenever someone says, "Just a quick question...", the answer never is.

And whenever someone says, "Not to interrupt...", it means that's exactly what they're about to do.

And that's all I have to say...about this

Don't you wish people meant it when they start a sentence with "All I can say is..."

Everything in Toleration

I just can't tolerate intolerance.

Wax This

Things you can wax: your bikini region, your car, poetic, rhapsodic, nick knack patty

Yet another childhood myth debunked

Just last week, I found out that, where i had always been told that we use only 10% of our brain, Time magazine says that we do in fact use all 100% of it...well, certain Presidents notwithstanding. And now I find out that Cooties aren't necessarily a bad thing.

My cousin, Kate, who is the Assistant Director of Student Accounts at Hartwick College (AD-SAHC?) , tells me that a student at Hartwick just got a scholarship from The Military Order of the Cooties. As Casey Stengel used to say, you could look it up: http://www.lotcs.org/.

Maybe this whole Iraq War thing isn't SO bad

From today's NY Times, Republican Senator Voinovich says that he told a White House official at the State of the Union address on Tuesday that the stalemate in Iraq was threatening to consume the Bush presidency.: "“It’s time to recognize that if you keep going the way you are, you are never going to achieve what you want to achieve,” Mr. Voinovich said. “And, beyond that, it’s going to fall over on your domestic initiatives and make your presidency uneventful and not have meaning.”

I'm not sure how being responsible for over 100,000 casualties can be defined as an uneventful and meaningless Presidency, but if it means he can't wreak further havoc in the world with his policies, both foreign and domestic, then at least there's an upside to the war.

And...does anyone ever wreak anything besides havoc?

Margaux' Legacy

One of my goals in life, along with someday writing a hymn, is to never have my name appear in the same sentence as the phrase "badly decomposed body".

I wonder what Baker thinks about the Fruitcake?

When reporters asked James Baker how he thought GWB might react to the Iraq Study Group's report, Baker said "I hope we don't treat this like fruit salad and say, 'I like this, but I don't like that.'"

No, actually, GWB treated it the same way I treat Fruit Salads: "Geez, you must've worked hard on that. Now pass the gravy!"

Betty or Gerald - Quien es mas macho??

Am I the only one who noticed that there seemed to be more written about Betty Ford in the obits after Gerald Ford died than about poor ole Gerry? And funny how all the Republican Presidents, even Nixon, keep looking better the longer we get into GW's second term? Well, not Reagan so much. He still looks bad.

Satchel Updated

Satchel Paige once said "Don't look back, something might be gaining on you."

My variation on that is:

Don't look in the rear-view mirror unless you want to go in reverse.

And I mean that both literally and figuratively.

Actually, here are all Satchel's rules:

"Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood".
"If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts".
"Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move".
"Go very light on the vices, such as carrying on in society — the social ramble ain't restful".
"Avoid running at all times".
"And don't look back — something might be gaining on you".

New Year's Resolutions

Wow - only 15 days into the year and I've accomplished 2 of my 3 new years resolutions. See if you can figure out which ones:

1 - Wear jeans to work more often
2 - Lose ANOTHER 10-20 pounds this year (let the record show i started the year at 189, down from a high of 204 in 2006)
3 - Start a blog

Times up. If number 2 had been GAIN another 10-20 pounds, i might have accomplished that at the rate I'm going, but no, obviously, I've done #1 and 3.

So this is my first entry. I'm not sure how this is going to look on my blog - or what any of it looks like yet, or who might read it, so I'll just post this for now and see where it goes and how it looks. Hopefully, much more to come...