The state of Florida has finally allowed open season on pythons. In case you don’t know, the large snake species in invading the state from the south up. Originating as escaped or freed pets in South Florida, the snake has populated the everglades and is expanding north into areas of Central Florida. The python threatens [...]
Continue Reading...This has to be the stupidist thing I have seen in a while. CNN news has picked up a story about a Twitter group that encourages people to “tweet” (I hate that saying) about bad drivers. “Why waste your time futilely shaking your fist at the driver who cut you off on the country road [...]
Continue Reading...So you are going to visit the queen of England on a diplomatic mission and it’s customary to bring her a gift. What kind of gift do you give? A good start might be something that represents your land. Maybe something that is cultural or maybe a historic artifact that they can placed in a [...]
Continue Reading...By far, the dumbest idea Ben Franklin ever had was daylight savings time. Those that know me well are probably expecting this rant. I do it every time we start “springing forward” or “falling back”. This silly tradition is pointless. Let’s think about it for a minute. What is the point of having a universal [...]
Continue Reading...On Friday, Omaba struck down a rule that prohibits US funding of international family planning clinics that promote abortion as an option. I know it’s hard to get past the abortion aspect of this, but let’s take a look at the big picture here. Why are we funding foreign clinics in the first place? In [...]
Continue Reading...It seems like commercials on TV are getting stupider by the day. An ever increasing number of ads are so unintelligible that I have no clue what they are trying to say or what message they are trying to convey about their product. For other commercials, I wonder if they advertiser even knows what they [...]
Continue Reading...The “Clown Car” family just added another child to their litter. There has to be something wrong with someone to possess them to have 18 children… and want more. Michelle Duggar has given birth to her 18th child. The Arkansas supermom delivered the baby girl by Caesarean section Thursday at Mercy Medical Center in Rogers. [...]
Continue Reading...Okay, I guess the turkey video is famous now. If not, it will be soon. Let me just say that I’ve lost a lot of respect for Sarah Palin. Yes, I am fully aware of where my turkey dinner comes from and I have absolutely no problem with that. Likewise, I am all about People [...]
Continue Reading...Our new president-elect has just launched his transition “information” (read: propaganda) site. I found this little tidbit in the “America Serves” section to be quite disturbing: “Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and [...]
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