Rational Conservatism from the Rocky Mountains
No, I ain’t done yet… Whether you love it or hate it, the Pop/Rock genre was prolific and near-perfect during music’s greatest decade. While most pop music is forgettable, the 70s produced dozens of pop melodies that have stood the test of time. Artists like Abba, Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, Halls and Oates, [...]
Yes, it was that chilly. I didn’t want to fire up the heater again, so I just used up some of the last of my firewood that was still in the firewood stack and started a fire to warm things up…. It’s not June yet.
OK, so Dadman challenges my “Mr. Mom” update suggesting that my lack of blogging is due to a bleary-eyed compulsive addiction to World of Warcraft, so I felt like it was time to post an update to my WoW activities just to be fair. Plus, it’s been a lot of fun. OK, so first to [...]
OK, today marks my seventh day as Mr. Mom with the Cosmic Wife in Kentucky helping take care of her father, who fell and injured his hip. I apologize for the light posting, but it’s been a fairly hectic seven days. She returns on Friday night, so I still have three days to go. Posting [...]
Remember when that meant being out of school, jumping on your bike with your ballglove threaded on the upraised handlebars of your banana bike and a bag with a peanut butter sandwich and some crackers in it for a day full of sun, fun and lots of running? Those were the days man…
I am somewhat familiar with the concept of lakes created by earthquakes because of the large number of lakes created by the New Madrid earthquake along the Mississippi River in the mid-nineteenth century. I did not, however, realize how devastating it could be for an earthquake-created lake to suddenly crash through it’s new earthen dam [...]
We are less than an hour away from the next Mars probe landing on its surface. Cross your fingers, Mars probes have a roughly 50/50 chance of success historically. APOD: 2008 May 25 – Phoenix Lander Arrives at Mars Explanation: Will Phoenix survive its landing today on Mars? Phoenix’s landing sequence will ramp up starting [...]
Hillary attempts to explain her RFK gaffe. In doing so she asserts that it is perfectly reasonable to use RFK’s assassination as a reference point since he was still campaigning in June and she intends to still campaign in June. Of course that’s all she meant. Right. Now let’s forget for a moment that this [...]
In case you missed the bloated, overwrought extravaganza otherwise known as the American Idol finale, it did have at least one good moment: Gladys Knight has found some new Pips… Oh, and this was another great song of the 70s, Pips and all…
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