Category: Humor
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Cross-posted from Fluff-n-Stuff —————————————————————————————————————— So Hillary Clinton announced in a meeting that as a little girl she had learned to shoot and gone hunting ducks with her dad. "As I told you, my dad taught me how to shoot behind our cottage,” she said. “I have gone hunting. I am not a hunter. But I…
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(Thanks to Ruchira for the idea and links) ‘Give us this day our daily meds’ has become the new grace all over the U.S. thanks to the agressive approach to sales and marketing of designer drugs by Big Pharma. While a huge amount of money has gone into finding cures for obscure conditions, the pharmaceutical…
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What would Easter Sunday be without a suitable Peep Show? Check out the prize-winning entries in the WaPo’s contest. ————————————- NASA goes gaga over goo – now there’s a headline that practically wrote itself! The goo was good. NASA mission managers were ebullient over a test late on Thursday of techniques to repair delicate tiles…
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Let us take a break from Democratic politics and talk a little about a man we have neglected for a while – George W. Bush; to him we owe numerous blog posts inspired by almost equal measures of terror, horror and entertainment. Jacob Weisberg, editor of Slate and the author of a new book The…
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Cross-posted from Fluff ‘n’ Stuff:————————————————————————————— "I’m naming this monkey Caramel, because of the color of his skin." I squinted at the brand new plush monkey M waved proudly at me. Her ever-indulgent father had purchased it from her from a mall kiosk when I had taken a brief trip to the restroom. S was performing…
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Cross posted from Fluff-n-Stuff ————————————————————– Last weekend, I took S on a much anticipated birthday treat- a concert featuring Joshua Bell, violinist extraordinaire, playing the Red Violin concerto, Oscar-winning score by composer John Corigliano, an astonishingly young-looking 70 year old. All that I knew of Joshua Bell, was primarily that he was young, kind of…
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Even more than the pandering pol speak of the presidential candidates, what is getting on my nerves is the hot air emanating from the meaningless, gotcha punditry of the media (specially TV) commentators. One of the worst offenders is Chris Matthews of MSNBC, the boorish motor mouth who appears to be covering a boxing match…
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Taking a break from our earnest political discussions of the last few days for a lighter moment. This news item by Reuters is a lesson in economic and gender parity, a case of the perfect no-fault divorce, a modern day morality tale of "What is sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose" etc.…
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Today’s New Hampshire primary could be make or break for some of the presidential candidates. A zillion polls are out there predicting the outcome of the horse race on both sides. We will know the results by evening. While we wait, let’s enjoy some juggling, a cartoon and a photo that I have not had…
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With the advent of each new year we contend with "lists." Lists of resolutions, hopes, predictions, trends, the most important people/books/movies/technological innovations of the last year etc. The wordsmiths too go to work with lists of new words and expressions that enter our vocabulary. This year I found a list of nineteen words and phrases…
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In the aftermath of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination and the turmoil in Pakistan, US presidential candidates of both parties have been scrambling to declare their various degrees of separation from murdered and living Pakistani leaders. Public claims of familiarity with the region’s politics and politicos are meant as code words for the candidates’ command of international…
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It’s not just the Israelis and Palestinians who form the feuding factions in the Holy Land. Territorial aggression among Christian priests who tend some of the holiest sites of Christianity is legendary. In this season of peace, a vicious donnybrook erupted on Thursday between Greek Orthodox and Armenian Apostolic priests in the Church of Nativity…
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Nick Anderson, the editorial cartoonist of the Houston Chronicle sums up nicely what I described in a recent post regarding the attack on Barack Obama by Hillary Clinton’s campaign machine.
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