Top Comments 5.7.11: Tornado Safety Edition
Given the number of people who died during three days and the fact that May is typically the month with the most tornadoes, I thought I would share some of my experiences. I was fortunate to have a...
View ArticleTop Comments 5.14.11: Entertainment Edition
Everyone needs some entertainment from time to time. This is probably more true today, as the stresses of too little time, too little money combine with information overload and high-demand life...
View ArticleTop Comments 5.21.11: Zombies Edition
Well I see you haven’t been raptured either. Now that we have the planet to ourselves, maybe we won’t have to put up with anymore posturing from politicians pandering to the fundamentalists and...
View ArticleTop Comments 5.28.11: Memories Edition
Perhaps foreshadowing Memorial Day, the past couple of days have bee filled with sad remembrance for me. Yesterday I was called to the bedside of my aunt, who died a few hours later. She was 96 and my...
View ArticleTop Comments 6.14.11: 5th Anniversary Edition
I was packing up to return home from a conference Friday when sardonyx called to invite me to write this anniversary diary. Since my old laptop died rather unceremoniously a few weeks ago while I was...
View ArticleTop Comments 6.18.11: Father’s Day Edition
Greetings from Computer Hell. This is not the diary I started to post at 9:30 Saturday evening. However, after a complete system crash that required a full-blown system Recovery and six (that’s right,...
View ArticleTop Comments 6.27.11: What’s New? Edition
What’s new? Not much, really. The terrorists appear to be winning again, as they continue to hold the U.S. economy hostage. Now they are demanding not only continued tax cuts for millionaires and...
View ArticleTop Comments 7.16.11: Happy Days Edition
I hate global climate change. While I don’t demand perfection from the weather, I do prefer some level of predictability. And I’ll define that very loosely, too, but I do wish we could come up with...
View ArticleTop Comments 7.30.11: No News Edition
Today is one of those days where I felt a rant coming on and was powerless to help myself – or you. But before I get started, here is a word from our sponsors. . . .We have so many insightful and...
View ArticleTop Comments 9.28.11: Freedom from the Press Edition
While watching Orwell Rolls in his Grave a few days ago, I was struck by a quote from the great investigative journalist George Seldes. An open critic of corporate-owned media, Seldes held that:The...
View ArticleWhy Tornillo? Just to be sure we know how awful Trump and his enablers really...
If you want proof that the child hostage crisis occurring on our southern border is wholly created and maintained by the Trump administration, look no further that the Tornillo Child Hostage Internment...
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