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Like the new school year, the football season always begins with such great hope. A clean slate and everyone is healthy. Of course, with a season that starts with the Packers and moves onto the Steelers, it is best to manage our expectations. Preseason… Continue Reading “T Minus Four Weeks”
So much for highlighting the adoptables: At the Refuge tonight, I found that one of my favorite Permanent Residents, Comet the Umbrella Cockatoo, had been moved to a different cage in a different room. She has always been rather easily startled, but since she… Continue Reading “Permanent Residents”
USA Today has been running a column called “Pet Talk” that I sometimes read and sometimes skip, depending on the subject matter. Yesterday they ran a story about how Petfinder.com is making a push to highlight some “less adoptable” animals. “Adopt a Less Adoptable… Continue Reading “Adopt a Less Adoptable Pet Day”
I’ve been paying attention to the Eunice Shriver story over the last couple of days, so I was not surprised to read of her death this morning. It still made me sad. Eunice rocked for several reasons: A woman graduating from college in the… Continue Reading “Mrs. Shriver”
Yesterday, in a fit of tantrum over how much exercise I’m not getting, I went to Best Buy and picked up a Wii and a Wii Fit. Then I went to the new burger place to pick up dinner. After dinner, I brought the… Continue Reading “The Wii”
Book 32 In case you have never been in a Barnes & Noble in your life, A Thousand Splendid Suns is the second novel of Khaled Hosseini, the guy that wrote The Kite Runner. The Kite Runner was a tale of Afghanistan told from… Continue Reading “A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini”
It must have been on Academic Earth that I first heard it: The speaker (presumably David Blight in the Civil War course) was talking about how after Ken Burns’ documentary on The Civil War, women were all swooning over the historian Shelby Foote. My… Continue Reading “The Shelby Foote Effect”
Sometime between when I posted last – about property taxes of all things – and right now, Google Ads decided that a “relevant” advertisement would be for Trojans. Any guesses on how that happened? Edit: And now it is back to taxes.
The Next Dark Age 