Elise Sereni Patkotak

I recently replaced the sliding glass doors leading to my back porch with French doors. When my dog Blondie went out the sliding doors, she exited on the right. But with the French doors, it’s the one on the left that opens first. So now she comes up the stairs and sits patiently on the porch in front of the wrong door. And I open the other side and stand there to let her in. And she looks at me with some interest and then returns her intent gaze to the door in front of her, waiting for it to

At least once a year multiple media will run a headline reading, “Alaska sues over federal wildlife/wilderness policy”. 

Remember when you were young and hated getting carded if you wanted a drink. Well, now when they ask for proof that you are actually old enough for the senior discount, you find yourself smiling a lot.

I watched it on DVR… not even for royalty can I either stay up that late or get up that early. Two things struck me the most about it. One, Prince William actually looked like he was very in love with his bride and couldn’t quite believe his good luck in getting to marry her. Every time he looked at her, you could see an expression of true joy. Given his family’s history, that’s very nice.

The second thing that really struck me was the sense of majesty and history embodied in the ceremony. Marriage tends to be a throw

When he starts to question how Obama made it through school, he sure sounds like a racist. I never heard anyone asking George Bush to show his school transcripts… and god knows that George Bush having anything beyond a GED boggles the imagination. I realize this whole presidential run thing is just to build up the final episode of his TV show but this is going too far. He has not only made a mockery of an election process that doesn’t need any help looking silly, but now he is making racist remarks to try to get someone, anyone, interested

I was speaking with a “friend” recently who is part of the birther movement. When I pointed out that Obama had released a copy of his certificate of live birth from Hawaii, the birther responded thusly, “That’s a certificate of live birth – not a birth certificate”.

There are some who think that America’s federal tax rate is so onerous it has to be lowered or corporations will simply not invest here. The fact that you can do business cheaper in Third World countries because their standard of living sucks as much as their pay is never mentioned as a possible reason. No, it’s our darn excessive tax rate.

Given that last year GE realized a profit of $15 billion worldwide, $5 billion of which was generated in America, and paid zero in federal taxes, that argument is starting to sound a bit weak. By my calculation,

… if it didn’t entail dirt and bugs and bending over and digging and bugs… did I mention bugs? Can’t mention them often enough.

Just put Lindsay Lohan in jail forever and let’s all get on with our lives!

After the debacles of the royal marriages of the past, you’d think we’d at least be a little cautious in pronouncing the act of becoming a princess through marriage a fairy tale. Remember, not all fairy tales end well.