We Could Use a Saint…

So my Halloween message didn’t scare you?  How about this? Quoting from Fox News– …a declaration of war marks a situation wherein assassination is not prohibited by domestic law, because war itself necessitates directed violence by whatever means available.  In other words, in times of war, ‘assassination’ is permissible.  In addition to the permissibility of […]

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If This Doesn’t Scare You…

  Okay. Here’s the complete memo. Sunday TimesAnd here’s something worse, the bits and pieces of explanation Mr. Kinsley (mentioned yesterday) didn’t have. Sunday TimesI’m going to use bits of it, and hope you read it yourself. And then decide   Okay. Here’s the complete memo. SundayTimes And here’s something worse, the bits and pieces

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Oh, Come On!!

The bit below is from an op-ed piece in the LA Times, linked here. I’m going to take it apart a bit, because it annoys me. Then I plan to go looking for the entire infamous Downing Street memo and see if my tiny little brain can make any decisions for itself. Pardon the sarcasm,

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Saturday Rant

I think it’s becoming habit.  If it’s Saturday, it must be time for the grocery-store rant.  God, I hate shopping! Hours, every week.  It’s not that big a store, it’s not like I’m shopping for twenty, what the heck? Forget it, just forget it.  Umm…what else?  Learned the last bit of the third kata for

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Chickens Anonymous

Another of my odd creations. But hey, it might help somebody. The Twelve Steps of Chickens Anonymous We admitted we were powerless over chicken-ism–that our unsubmitted manuscripts had become unmanageable. Came to believe that a Publisher greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Made a decision to turn our will and our careers over

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Deep Doo-Doo

I didn’t write a darn thing tonight.  I have one page of my Shades chapter done, and I won’t be writing much tomorrow night, Hope is testing. One page is, tops, 350 words for me.  Meaning I have less than one eighth of the chapter done, and I’ll blow my ten-week streak if I don’t

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Fiddling While Candles Burn

Blog?  Oh, yeah, sure, I guess I can blog. Don’t mind me, I’m a bit on the brain-dead side.  But I did figure out how to make my blog dates and blogboard visible, thank you very much.  I forgot how unnecessarily (I think) complicated adjusting the theme is.  And it annoys me that I can’t

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