He’d never heard of man rape? What the hell planet was he living on? Did he never turn on the TV or radio or read a newspaper other than the sports section? And it is bull crap that he was just of a different generation that did not know these things existed. The current generation did not suddenly produce perverts and all past generations had none of them.
Joe Paterno was told that a child was being molested. He told someone else and then went on with his life. Too bad the kids his staff member raped couldn’t do the
The continuing saga of Blondie and the snow
See, as my mother might say, I still have the brains god born me with. I didn’t even try to take a walk with Blondie when all the snow fell on Thursday. And Blondie, god bless her, is so even more out of it now that she’s on all that prednisone that she doesn’t give a hoot on a good day.
I went to wrestle my trash and recycle can from the end of my driveway through the snow and into the garage. She followed me as far as the garage and just stood there looking out as I went
You learn to make accommodations for the snow
My dog like to deposit her poop in a variety of spots in the yard. She never goes out and just stops in one place. I don’t know why. But answering nature’s call means making many circuits of the yard, sniffing carefully and then make partial deposits in a lot of places. However, this is the year of snowpocalypse in Anchorage. She goes into the yard and once she gets beyond the protective ceiling of the second floor deck, she is in snow up to her shoulders. Still, the instinct for multiple deposits is strong. Since she can’t go far,
You know you’re having a bad start to the New Year…
… when you wake up in the morning and are happy that you only feel tired and not sick and tired.
$10,000 bets are beyond most of our means
Here’s a quote from an ADN article that ran on Dec. 27. It sure caught my eye.
“Between 1984 and 2009, the median worth of a member of the House (Federal) has risen 2 ½ times… rising from $280,000 to $725,000 in inflation-adjusted dollars.” This was based on analysis of financial disclosures done by the Washington Post. The analysis did not take into account home equity since that is not required in congressional reporting.
The article then continued, “Over the same period, the wealth of an American family has declined slightly, with the median sliding from $20.600 to $20, 500
Groan
No matter how hard I try, the winter crud finds me and lays me low. Do not come near me. I am contagious and mad enough to want to spread it around.
Trees
You know that poem we all had to memorize back in grade school… at least, we did when I went to grade school back in the Paleolithic Period. It’s by Joyce Kilmer and it goes like this:
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth’s flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately
You can’t just call it super
E needs to understand that they can’t just put the word “super” in front of a show and that makes it so… especially if they are referring to something that includes the words Kim and Khloe.
Hmmmm
Is it just me or did our parents look a lot older when they were our age than we do now that we’re their age?
New species
Here’s the teaser from the article on newly discovered species:
“Animals found nowhere else on the planet live near deep-sea vents and get energy from breaking down chemicals such as hydrogen sulphide—not the sun.”
I have to wonder if they aren’t all congregated down there scheming for when we finally spoil our earth so badly that the human race disappears and they take over. Twenty million years from now, will these creatures be finding old MacDonald’s boxes and trying to piece together the story of those who came before them using the occasional odd find from our time?