10:45 p.m. last Tuesday night. The phone rang. Mind you, the phone doesn't ring at my house after 9 p.m., unless there's a problem, just courtesy. It was my wife's cousin, "Heather, this is Sis, call me back." We don't have Sis' number. After calling anyone she could remember, we found out her uncle was in the hospital, possible heart attack, probably wouldn't make it. We packed a hasty suitcase while I explained the situation to my boss. Fifteen minutes later we were on the road for a...
R. Kelly is leading Billboard's American Urban Radio Network R&B/Hip Hop Awards with eight nominations. Why? Hell, I thought I hit rock bottom when rock died, but this is even more dismal. Jay-Z is a close second, with seven nominations, followed by Alicia Keys, Beyonce and Outkast with five apiece. What sane parent would let their children listen to the musical garbage that is now R&B? R. Kelly is a pedophile, having once been married to Aaliyah when she was 14, and most recently videot...
In a news article released last week, of which I had heard of months before, the SAT tests will undergo some changes. For the better, as far as I'm concerned. There will be a new addition to the college entrance exam, one which many people will fear and loath. It concerns the use of English properly, and a writing utensil not containing keys. It will be a "raw writing" section. This involves essay style responses to questions. Scoring will be judged by style, vocabulary, spelling, punct...
Judge Phyllis Hamilton declared the ban on partial birth abortions unconstitutional today, according the Associated Press. Now, I'm not against abortion, but this type is particularly troublesome. If you have to wait until the third trimester before deciding to abort, then it seems to me to be like taking off your parachute pack as the chute deploys. I don't know how you define a baby, but if you've ever seen footage and photographs of these "medical procedures", there may be a striking re...
Democratic heir-apparent to the nomination, John "F-ing" Kerry, going above and beyond as he normally does, demonstrated his knowledge of the almost universal gesture of goodwill to a comrade of the Vietnam war during a tour of the Wall in D.C. If you don't at this point understand this man, I'm sure this story I've linked to will go over your little head. If not, here's the link, courtesy of Newsmax. Ignorant
These photos courtesy of littlegreenfootballs.com
April 10, 2004. A "peace" protest, with a guest speaker. Hatem Bazian, a professor and lecturer at U.C. Berkeley, was the speaker. The tree huggers came out in droves, not unlike worker bees for a queen. The good professor, a teacher of Islamic studies, also a former Palestinian inhabitant, egged the crowd on with such dynamic comments as "We've been watching an uprising in Iraq and the question is that what are we doing? How come we don't have an intifada in this country?" "Becau...
In yet another surgical strike on Hamas, Hamas leader and his dear son were attacked and subsequently died of inuries sustained after they got blown to kingdom come. Speaking to a Jewish customer in a well known deli in Des Moines, Iowa, he was quoted as saying "I should have ordered a pickle, too." Another interview of a Cambodian dry cleaner gave us this response. "Do you like extra starch?" There you have it, people everywhere are weeping for the souls of the recently departed, highly-r...
I never fail to lose my stuff when someone screws up the lyrics to a popular song. It makes my day. I've heard some good ones, too. It always amazes me to see how out there sombody can twist the words without them stopping to question them. My brother - in - law always sings "Dirty Jean and the Thunder Chief." My wife still swears Mick Jagger and the Stones were "raised by two lesbians." Hell, I thought Bruce was singing about a bridge in disguise for almost 5 years. There are some goo...
I never fail to lose my stuff when someone screws up the lyrics to a popular song. It makes my day. I've heard some good ones, too. It always amazes me to see how out there sombody can twist the words without them stopping to question them. My brother - in - law always sings "Dirty Jean and the Thunder Chief." My wife still swears Mick Jagger and the Stones were "raised by two lesbians." Hell, I thought Bruce was singing about a bridge in disguise for almost 5 years. There are some goo...
My wife left me today. I saw it coming a mile away. Actually, I saw it coming four years away. I think I'm going to miss her. A little. Who's going to clean the house now? I met her in '96 while in port in Turkey. A couple shipmates and I got lost while exploring and found a little, and I mean little, sex parlor in a back alley. She was waiting tables and occassionally dancing. She didn't dance very often because she only had one leg. She had lost it, I think, in a collision w...
In a study published almost a week ago in the journal Nature, a laboratory in New York, the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has uncovered some remarkable findings in cancer killing research. Dr. Hans- Guido Wendel, colleauges Dr. Scott Lowe and Professor Jerry Pelletier found the combination of two chemicals, rapamycin and doxorubicin actually wiped out tumours on laboratory mice. Rapamycin, an antibiotic, is derived from a fungus found thus far only on Easter Island. It hs for some time...
The complaints are beginning to mount about Israel's own anti terrorism agenda and the government's methods. An Israeli helicopter gunship launched a missile into a group of people in the early morning hours and killed a defenseless paraplegic old man bent on the entire destruction of Israel and Jews. The missile also allegedly killed his caretaking, bodyguarding staff. Oops. Isreal has shown the greatest amount of patience and forethought and humanity throughout this incessant war. Figh...
The state will finally close the books on the investigation into the methods of the Cincinnati police department and the subsequent death of a rather large man who died a short time after being taken into custody in front of a fast food store. As you may remember, the videotape and the outcries from civil rights leaders and members of the dead fellow's family caused many in the morning talk show circuits to wring their hands in mock disbelief, caring and outrage. The nonissue caused much te...
I was born in San Jose, California, to a sailor in the Navy and a WAVE. Both are proud Vietnam vets. When I was one, we moved to Norfolk, Virginia. My brother was born two years later, both of us having been conceived during the Thanksgiving week while my dad was back from sea. That same year we moved to Patuxtent River, Maryland where we lived for four more years. In 1980, my dad retired and we moved to Gassaway, West Virginia, to a 120 year old farm house on 76 acres, in the middle of...