The (I’m led to understand; I wasn’t there) nice and polite HVAC guy visited on Wednesday, and informed us that our aging and basic central air system had blown a compressor. It’s dead. Shuffled off the mortal coil (though the heating coil is supposedly okay), joined the choir invisible, pining for the fjords. Damn. I […]

in no particular order: Now, I’m a reasonably observant Catholic, but when stuff like this happens, I get really annoyed with the Church. Denying someone marriage because of the consequences of a disability feels all kinds of wrong. On the other hand, there’s news that makes me really happy, like the announcement that Barack Obama […]

Well, it is. It’s somewhere in the neighborhood of 110° F here in Central Virginia, and our air conditioning is basically out of commission until Wednesday when the guy can get here to rape my wallet fix it. We came back from our weekend jaunt, and I found one of my corydoras catfish dead and […]

Remember when I said this back in March? As was completely expected, McCain went there, is using Clinton’s “Commander-in-Chief” line to attack Obama. The McCain camp is going to come up with enough mud to sling on their own; there’s really no need to hand stuff to them. I really wish Clinton’s camp would have […]

Not to diminish the reasons and motivations behind the actual celebration of Memorial Day, a worthy day of remembrance and celebration of the service of our nation’s veterans, that more people perhaps ought to consider (particularly, you know, people in power right now, and those seeking power), but I’d honestly rather just put this particular […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

According to teh internets, The incomparable Molly joined Jonathan Coulton and Paul And Storm on stage at a show in Seattle, Washington for a couple of tunes the other night. Thankfully, there is ample Youtube coverage of the event, though I am currently unable to view said footage, as I am behind a flash-video blocking […]

This week, for all kinds of reasons – some obvious, some still a mystery – I am utterly and entirely exhausted, on all kinds of levels, both physical and otherwise. I need a break, but it’s unlikely I’m going to get one any time soon. I want spring break too! “Livin’ On A Prayer” – […]