Rants, musings, and other general purpose blog entries reflecting the thoughts du jour.
David and Susan with Kathryn...
Sometimes these posts are so easy to write that the words practically fling themselves headlong from my fingertips into sentences and paragraphs and the next thing I know there's a finished article ready for me to hit the Publish button and share my thoughts du jour with the world. This is not one of those stories. This one is going to take a while and I'm not going to promise I'm not going to be…
After just penning a bit of a blistering screed on the subject of being presumed honest and innocent rather than the other way round, I knew the notes I planned on hitting in this annual Memorial Day post where we remember those who sacrificed greatly for the rest of us to have first-world problems like resenting the presumption of dishonesty. Every day for me is Memorial Day as I look up at that triangular wooden…
With the greatest possible respect, please tell me how a reasonably intelligent human being could possibly come to the conclusion that you're *NOT* a hypocrite when we look at these two statements (one where you were reading a clumsily prepared written excuse after the veto override vote that could have been ghost-written by Speaker Moore and the one you told the voters in the district you were hoping to represent): "Some call me a hypocrite…
Translated: "Good evening. We are from Ukraine!" Pronounced: "Dobroho vechora. My z Ukrayiny!" Seen on T-shirt with Ukrainian tractor towing a captured Russian tank There are plenty of signs in the news these days that the Russian invasion of the Ukraine is not going all that well and that's not even considering the Ukrainian counter-offensive that is expected to start presently now that Spring has truly arrived. The Russian command and control apparatus seems anything…
Another birthday has come and gone and as the weekend turns to the usual Mad Hatter’s dance that is our usual week here in Greater Metropolitan East Raleigh, I’m once again struck by just how truly blessed I am with amazing loved ones and friends enough to fill Scrooge McDuck’s mightiest gold vault. I appreciate every one of the good wishes and positive vibes and will endeavour to respond personally when I can spend some…
Today's fun after giving Mistletoe a bit of a belly rub before totally betraying her and putting her into her crate is to head downtown and take the two oaths of office to be commissioned an Electronic Notary Public which took a little longer than I'd planned due to a lovely bit of reading non-comprehension. The journey to the Wake County Justice Centre was certainly interesting. A North Carolina Highway Patrol trooper was sitting on…
