Look & See
I rarely enter the realm of YouTube but, a friend sent me an e-mail and I checked it out. "We the People" is a presentation worth watching. The "star" iterates many of the same issues that I have talked about, …
Economy, Economy, Economy
The local economy continues to take a beating. A loss of over 37,000 jobs compared to the same time last year. Claims for unemployment are up. And, just by looking around, homelessness has increased dramatically. A story in Voice of …
ENGLISH???
The dumbing down of America is again illustrated by Jay Leno. He does a segment called Jay Walking, asking questions of people on the street. It is amazing/appalling what people do not know. Then he will pick 3 of the …
Basketball & journalism
Spring is sprung, the grass is riz, I wonder where the birdies is. My mother used to say that & I have always liked it! I do not have a clue as to its origin. But, it is now officially …
RANTING & RAVING
Well, legal issues aside, I continue to believe that the President has the authority to stop AIG from paying bonuses. Even if there is a contract, the totality of this company is broke. The contracts were drawn up when AIG …
AIG ARROGANCE
More on AIG. This is a portion of the text of the Washington Post story: "Ever since it was bailed out by the government last fall, AIG has been defending itself against accusations that it was richly compensating people who …
Call for participation/STOP AIG
THIS IS IMPORTANT I sent the following to Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Susan Davis. You have to go to their website & fill out their e-mail form, then you can cut & paste the text below or write your own. …
Interesting Quotations
Quotations from Bartletts, with Auntsandiego's comments. If you want to know the identity of the author of the quote, you can look it up at: http://www.successnetquotes.com/ "The grass is always greener on the other side". I am just hoping there …
Food and airplanes
I do hope all who wanted the Reader were able to get one yesterday. If not, I still have a few copies! I wandered around stopping to pick up 2-3 copies at several places around downtown. At the 7-11 store …
Relax
Do you ever just want to sit down, relax, maybe take your shoes off? I found the perfect place. It is the V2 Nail Bar Salon on the north side of F St. between 9th & 10th. They actually did …
Baseball
Here we go Padres Here we go. Baseball is in the air. Opening Day is approaching. I have my tickets and am ready to go. Speaking of tickets, the Padres organization made a truly bonehead decision in printing the season …
WHY??
Questions from the brain of an experienced WHYner. Why is the sky blue?? Had to start with that one as it is the one most quoted! Why, when watching a rented/on demand movie do they have the information that the …
Stimulating
Today's Washington Post contains an article on the budget, written by Michael Gerson, in which he states: "And then came the budget--idealogically ambitious, politically ruthless and radical to its core". Those are some pretty harsh words. He sounds a lot …
Smoke gets in your eyes
Sunday night there was a movie on CBS: Jesse Stone, On Thin Ice. This is the 4th in a series adapted from books written by Robert B Parker (author of Spenser). Tom Selleck is Jesse Stone. It was pretty good …
Roy's restaurant and city livin
Summertime, and the livin' is easy. Very nice 80 degrees downtown on Saturday. It was a loverly day for taking a walk around the neighborhood. Unfortunately, the nice weather seems to have increased the homeless population. A large, about 15, …