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Five Years Ago

By on Tuesday, March 6th, 2012 | Comments Off

Five years ago today I had the surgery that saved my life, but left me crippled. I wouldn’t leave the final hospital and start being an outpatient until October 30. I wrote a long account of it. I read it. It’s icky, and not really suitable for public consumption. I didn’t want the pity when [...]

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The Reason for the Season

By on Sunday, December 25th, 2011 | No Comments

1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2The same was in the beginning with God. 3All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5And [...]

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9/11, Ten Years Later

By on Sunday, September 11th, 2011 | No Comments

People more eloquent than I am will be writing of all of the details of the attack on America that happened on September 11, 2001, often remembered by the short form “9/11.” The media will be full of tributes and time lines, and that is as it should be. Others will look at how our [...]

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The Longest Pub Crawl of My Life

By on Friday, March 18th, 2011 | 1 Comment

VodkaPundit tweeted “Two nights I never go out in public: St Paddy’s and New Year’s. #AmateurNight.” My mind immediately flashed back to the longest pub crawl in my life, which happened on a Saint Patrick’s Day night. One of the jobs I held in my misspent youth was a bus driver at a local charter [...]

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Unions Forfeit My Sympathy

By on Thursday, February 24th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Today someone from the Communications Workers of America was demonstrating outside of the building in DC that houses both FreedomWorks and Fox News in support of the public employee unions in Wisconsin attacked a young woman I know and like to think of as a friend, Tabitha Hale. Tabitha works at FreedomWorks, and with a number of other bloggers I was a guest at a party she hosted during CPAC at FreedomWorks.

Something broke inside me when I heard that Tabitha had been attacked. Unions have apparently decided that it’s OK to assault women in public. Call me a chauvinist if you must, but to me that is beyond the pale.

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The Vaccination as a Miracle

By on Saturday, January 8th, 2011 | 2 Comments

The debate over a possible link between autism and vaccination hit the news again this week. A study that linked vaccination with autism was shown to be a fraud. The story was mentioned on Fox News’ “Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld” last night; in fact the host made it the subject of his “Greg-alogue.” This [...]

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The Year I Led the Rose Parade

By on Saturday, January 1st, 2011 | 1 Comment

You know that you’re running REALLY late for the Rose Parade when you’re on a freeway in Pasadena and there is no traffic. Everybody is either at home avoiding the nightmare of tourist traffic, out of town avoiding the nightmare of tourist traffic, or at the parade themselves. On the other hand, the lack of traffic and the fact that 90% of traffic cops are manning road blocks or directing traffic somewhere means you can often make up for lost time.

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Fakers, and the People They Hurt

By on Tuesday, December 28th, 2010 | 2 Comments

As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been online since 1985, when we had to push the data uphill both ways in the snow. As Mark Twain reportedly said “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” (Apparently he didn’t really say it.) A large chunk of the conservative community on Twitter and FaceBook have just heard [...]

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Jack Bauer Interrogates Santa Claus

By on Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 | 1 Comment

Last year there was an e-card site called RebelChristmasCard2009.com. The domain registration has expired, and there doesn’t seem to be an equivalent 2010 site. But they did leave in their wake a video of Jack Bauer interrogating Santa Claus to prove that they were here once. Merry Christmas!

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I Discovered a New Ability

By on Saturday, November 20th, 2010 | 1 Comment

I discovered a new ability tonight. It turns out that you can clench your teeth and mumble at the same time. Scene: A munchie run. Carhier: That’ll be $19.90. Me: [Forks over twenty dollar bill.] Cashier: You were young then, weren’t you? Me: [Noncommittal interrogatory noises.] Cashier: In 1990. You were young then, right? Rapid mental [...]

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