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9 Feb 2011, 12:32 pm by Tom Smith
What did moths ever do to be compared to Ariana? [read post]
7 Feb 2011, 12:11 pm by Tom Smith
Insta-wife comments thereon. One of the comments interested me. Seems to me it's not a bad idea to go on an arduous hiking trip (or whatever the equivalent would be for city-loving folk) with your intended. If she gets along, likes it, and so on, then male space may not be such a problem. If not, well, a word to the wise . . . [read post]
19 Jan 2011, 8:37 am by Tom Smith
Man that Iowahawk is weird. And funny. [read post]
1 Jan 2011, 1:58 pm by Tom Smith
It does seem that income (in)equality is the thing that will be harped on endlessly for years to come. [read post]
10 Dec 2010, 10:55 am by Tom Smith
This is upsetting. I thought it was in Idaho. But then . . . maybe there were two Atlantises! [read post]
28 Nov 2010, 10:26 am by Tom Smith
I don't count myself a BSU Bronco fan in world where some people drink orange and piss blue, so to speak. I am just one more guy who wanted them to win and who had the occasional fantasy of their ending up No. 1 and shoving it down the throat of Auburn or somebody. I was disappointed at how the game with Nevada turned out, you could say. My sister, an Idaho Vandal, was rooting for the Wolfpack. There is some bad blood between BSU and U of I. I would have to support Idaho against BSU for family… [read post]
14 Nov 2010, 8:32 pm by Tom Smith
I'm not endorsing these views but they are food for thought. Weird how effective these cartoons can be in explaining something complex. (h/t GR) [read post]
14 Nov 2010, 8:43 pm by Tom Smith
Is this for real? Am I seriously going to have to be felt up the next time I fly and my family members too? I'm not sure how LWJ would react to this. Or my teenaged boys. Can't they just use their magic xray or something? So some 22 year old Somali traveling on a student visa reading a copy of Death to America can't be singled out, but all of the rest of us get to have our junk groped? I mean, most of the time I don't really care, but sometimes when I'm travelling I'm… [read post]
14 Nov 2010, 5:30 pm by Tom Smith
[This is a family life update. Please do not read it.] My latest DIY project is building a garden box, which is about as basic as you can get. I used the concept from here. On the theory that bigger is better, I've made it 18 inches deep instead of 10 or 12. This will allow me to spend more money on potting soil. When I went to buy the lumber, I had the choice of redwood or spruce, the former being about three times as expensive. All the spruce was about 60 bucks while the redwood would have… [read post]
14 Nov 2010, 11:06 am by Tom Smith
Media star and maybe candidate. Somehow this seems to me like Sam trying to grab the ring. Could we please, just for a term or two, have something other than weird personal psycho-drama meets world historical forces? [read post]
12 Nov 2010, 7:05 am by Tom Smith
Just the beating up of David Brooks alone makes it worth a read. [read post]
3 Nov 2010, 8:53 am by Tom Smith
Grrrrrrrrrrr!  Putting Sarah next to Geraldine is just the sort of evil right-wing manipulation of opinion we have come to expect Fox News to engage in and in my case at least it is very effective. Some grizzlies are cute and some are just scary.  This was interesting, but now, for the good of the country and especially so as not to scare the children, let us call the park rangers and have them lead Geraldine back to the forest. [read post]
29 Oct 2010, 5:41 pm by Tom Smith
It's so weird you could almost think it is part of some sort of dialectic; not that I think it really is. Nothing is more clear to anybody who has been within a hundred miles of them that nothing and nobody are more cynical, mercenary, devoid of principle, vain, and narcissistic than show business and the people in it. Who knows why. Maybe something to do with it being about the manipulation of illusion by people who are really good at creating it, the amounts of money involved, the saturation… [read post]
20 Oct 2010, 2:18 pm by Tom Smith
What a guy. Check out how he handled Indiana public sector unions. Somehow I'm not expecting this from Gov. Moonbeam 2.0. [read post]
6 Oct 2010, 8:09 pm by Tom Smith
Some GOP prognosticators seem to be getting a bit overheated predicting the biggest blowout since the Big Bang in the upcoming elections. Intrade provides a good reality check. Odds of the GOP taking the House: about 75/25. Of taking the Senate: 60/40 against. I expect the GOP will get a majority in the House, not do so in the Senate, and do OK in governors' races. Extreme excitement is not indicated. [read post]
4 Oct 2010, 2:20 pm by Tom Smith
The Brits do it right. Happy First Monday in October, everybody. Try to be of good cheer. [read post]
3 Oct 2010, 4:15 pm by Tom Smith
No, I'm not talking about some weird sex thing, but this. This is the second or third time I have seen the colon, to wit, ":", used in this freakish manner. Putting a colon where you would not put even a comma, let alone a period or semi-colon: What is that about? I say we cry shrilly now and put an end to this abomination before it is too late. Emoticons are bad enough. [read post]