Calvert "Larry 'Bud' Melman" DeForest, former semi-regular on Late Night, died on Monday. I thought he was one of the more brilliant characters to show up on Letterman's show. Between his deadpan delivery and zany timing, he always had me...
Billy Dreamed of Trains When Billy was a little girl, she only dreamed of TRAINS She never played with dolls or lacy kinds of things Billy counted boxcars instead of counting sheep She could go anywhere when she went to sleep All she ever talked...
I've always hated the thought of manually applying the same change to several (possibly hundreds) lines of code. Coding should be an intuitive process, the whole way through; there should be little "brute force" typing. This doesn't mean...
This is an old story therefore I don't really think this happened in 2006. Still a fun song even though the truthfulness of this story and the time frame is doubtful. Omie ~ To commemorate her 69th birthday on October 1,...
Despite being mired in two increasingly costly and bloody wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush administration appears to be on a collision course with another official foe: Iran. Beyond the usual pronouncements that shy away from suggestions of war,...
Sick of Iraq, "war on terror," torture, civilian deaths, political lies, corruption in high places, loss of civil liberties, stolen elections, media manipulation and conversation after conversation about all of the above. Over the past four years I have evolved...
Another fellow Brainerd resident is asking for more police action in our area: From the Chattanoogan.com Opinion section We Admit We Have A Gang Problem, Now What? posted: March 21, 2007 I've got to say that I am happy that we have taken...
I just got out of a talk by someone who has worked in the DRC on the child-soldier problem. She was talking about efforts to disarm and reintegrate ex-child-soldiers and ongoing efforts to prosecute war criminals before the International...
There are several important facts to note about the President's vow at this afternoon's Press Conference to resist attempts to compel Karl Rove and Harriet Miers to testify to Congress, under oath, with regard to the firing of the U.S....
The man on the fence gets hit from both sides The Tennessee Senate felt another shift in its teetering balance last week when former Speaker Pro Tem Micheal Williams (Maynardville — and that’s his spelling, not mine) announced his departure from...
There were two recent actions in or near East Lake resulting from NIMBYS. However, one NIMBY action was a incorrect and one was a correct action. The incorrect action happened in Cedar Hill. What a travesty that a bunch...
Rarely has the imperial hubris that lies at the basis of U.S. foreign policy – the unspoken, unquestioned assumption of America's right to global domination by force – been so nakedly revealed than in the recent Washington Post story decrying...
Further searching on the topic of scamming the 419 scammers led me to this site. "419eater" is an online community dedicated to ensuring that the 419 scammers have some really, really bad days. They'll string along a scammer long enough...
Yesterday I replaced 2 dead batteries in his See and Say. He used to play with it all the time, as if he was in training for the slots in Vegas. At the time that the batteries went kaput, he...
Can't believe I missed the Danielle Peck concert at Walmart. I know there is a bunch of fiddlers that play on Saturday morning at the Soddy-Daisy Hardees (or is it McDonalds) but Walmart? ...
Or at least it's fun watching other people try to keep up with them. My husband claims his first wife can cry at will and therefore he is hardened to tears rather than sympathetic to them. As a result, I...
‘We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were. We don’t know these lost people but if you look around, you’ll find someone just like...
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