October 2005

If This Doesn’t Scare You…

  Okay. Here’s the complete memo. Sunday TimesAnd here’s something worse, the bits and pieces of explanation Mr. Kinsley (mentioned yesterday) didn’t have. Sunday TimesI’m going to use bits of it, and hope you read it yourself. And then decide   Okay. Here’s the complete memo. SundayTimes And here’s something worse, the bits and pieces […]

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Oh, Come On!!

The bit below is from an op-ed piece in the LA Times, linked here. I’m going to take it apart a bit, because it annoys me. Then I plan to go looking for the entire infamous Downing Street memo and see if my tiny little brain can make any decisions for itself. Pardon the sarcasm,

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Saturday Rant

I think it’s becoming habit.  If it’s Saturday, it must be time for the grocery-store rant.  God, I hate shopping! Hours, every week.  It’s not that big a store, it’s not like I’m shopping for twenty, what the heck? Forget it, just forget it.  Umm…what else?  Learned the last bit of the third kata for

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Chickens Anonymous

Another of my odd creations. But hey, it might help somebody. The Twelve Steps of Chickens Anonymous We admitted we were powerless over chicken-ism–that our unsubmitted manuscripts had become unmanageable. Came to believe that a Publisher greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Made a decision to turn our will and our careers over

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Deep Doo-Doo

I didn’t write a darn thing tonight.  I have one page of my Shades chapter done, and I won’t be writing much tomorrow night, Hope is testing. One page is, tops, 350 words for me.  Meaning I have less than one eighth of the chapter done, and I’ll blow my ten-week streak if I don’t

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Fiddling While Candles Burn

Blog?  Oh, yeah, sure, I guess I can blog. Don’t mind me, I’m a bit on the brain-dead side.  But I did figure out how to make my blog dates and blogboard visible, thank you very much.  I forgot how unnecessarily (I think) complicated adjusting the theme is.  And it annoys me that I can’t

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The Dying Goes On

I hate to do it but only politics can stop the dying.  So I’ll get on my soap box about it. Candlelight Vigils “This week, the number of American soldiers lost while serving in Iraq reached over 2000. While thousands of families have made the ultimate sacrifice, thousands more send their children and loved ones

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