You know the Democratic primary season has been wearing on too long when not one, but two “respectable” media outlets have likened Hillary Clinton’s campaign to a Monty Python skit. Oh, and PythOnline had something as well, so five three instances. At least. I suspect there are probably more. But none of them repeat the […]

Friday evening when Andrew and I got back from the movies, I found my much beloved, if a little bloodthirsty, blue female ,betta dead. She’d been with us for about two years, which is a pretty good span for a fish, especially since a good bit of that time involved me learning the hobby. I […]

It took me three and a half hours to drive to DC this morning. I-95 was pretty much a parking lot from Fredericksburg to the mixing bowl in Springfield. A very wet parking lot (thankfully, I was going slow the whole time – I’ve got that flakey braked Stratus again). I had a lot of […]

Andrew and I caught a matinee of Iron Man on Friday afternoon…afterwards, he was telling everyone he met, in breathless excitement, how cool it was, and what his favorite part was. It was cute. Of course, when I threw a mic in front of him to record his excitement; he clammed up. Colleen managed to […]

Someone at the BBC let this one slide; even if it is entirely factual. That doesn’t stop it from being perhaps the best headline ever: “Great tits cope well with warming” Not only that, they apparently protect commercial apple orchards from caterpillar damage! As I’ve said before, I am a snickering twelve year old.

We slept peacefully through distant thunderstorms last night. The gentle tapping of raindrops on the house and the leaves on the trees outside imparts a unique calming feeling. Of course, when one’s alarm clock goes off at 5:40am after such a restful night, one does not wish to leave the peace and comfort of one’s […]

I meant to post this one yesterday when I discovered it at 7am; I just didn’t get around to it. Of course, now I’m just getting wheaton’s sloppy seconds… Anyway, it’s surprisingly deep for a one-panel, stick figure cartoon. It starts out one place, a place I definitely recognize; a moment in time that I […]

Much ado has been made recently about the “gas tax holiday” idea being thrown around by Senators Clinton and McCain as a means of providing relief from high gas prices this summer. According to these two presidential candidates (and pretty much no one else), suspending the 18-point-something cents per gallon federal tax for a three […]

First, let me direct your attention to the photo gallery, where I added a handful of shots from Andrew’s baseball game on Saturday. Shots taken with something other than a cell phone camera, even. Second, although this news a bit old, and we filled most everyone in already, Yes, one of the tornadoes in Virginia […]

…most of the time, such as here, where she got a really, really, great grade on her poster/presentation on Independence Day: Note the first element, “Appropriate Dress”. This meant that Mary had to dress as her topic. Some kids had historical figures. Mary had a holiday. She had to dress up as “Independence Day”. That […]