Category: Random Thoughts & Idle Chatter
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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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O little emperor with no orb, conqueror without country, ….. tiny tiger of the living room, posing four delicate feet on the ground sniffing, mistrustful of everything on earth, because everything is unclean for the cat’s immaculate foot. The above is an excerpt from Pablo Neruda’s poem Ode to the Cat (Oda al Gato) which…
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Super Tuesday has come and gone and it is up to us, the candidates and media pundits to crunch the numbers, read deep meanings in voter demographics and slice the cucumber thin to get the big picture. None of us knows what lies ahead. The Republican primaries have been decisive in their verdict – John…
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Cross posted from Fluff-n-Stuff: After a long break, I started refilling the lonely birdfeeder hanging on a shepherd’s hook from our deck railing. The birdseed had been purchased months before and sat on a high shelf in my pantry, waiting patiently for an opening day. Are birds particular about expiry dates, come to think of…
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He who dislikes the cat, was in his former life, a rat. Chinese Proverb (This is the beginning of a regular series of cat quotes that will appear here)
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If this week’s presidential debates in California and the barrage of campaign information in the media haven’t convinced you to choose your candidate so far, here is a simple test to help you decide. My results : Barack Obama : Points of agreement = 9, disagreement = 1 Hillary Clinton : Points of agreement =…
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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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There will be light or no blogging for the next week to ten days. I expect that most readers as well as our bloggers, will be busy with travel and family get-togethers in the coming days. Even if there are new posts during the holidays, please expect to see more links than commentary. Hopefully, blogging…
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1. When Bill Clinton speaks smarmily about his wife, it probably means Hillary’s campaign is floundering: "Mr. Clinton said that, early on in their relationship, he told Hillary that she should “dump” him and take a job at a big law firm and run for public office, because those were perches more often held by…
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Did you believe that your zodiac sign could influence your driving abilities? Silly as it may seem, some insurance companies actually think so! (Only, the worst and best signs seem to vary from year to year, so take heart all you Librans and beware all you Leos!) Intelligent Design (-ers, -ees, -ists, whatever…) , watch…
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Congratulations, Brian. Best of luck in your goal of establishing the University of Chicago as one of the top centers of law and philosophy. Thank you, Chuck Schumer, for reminding all of us just how completely and pathetically useless Democrats are. Schumer will vote in favor of Judge Mukasey’s appointment as Attorney General because Mukasey…
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Sometimes it seems like only yesterday and at other times depressingly long since I set a tentative foot in the blogosphere. It is neither. Today is Accidental Blogger’s second anniversary and we at A.B. are probably as surprised as our readers by the blog’s moderate longevity. On our first anniversary, I was effusive and adopted…
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Here at Accidental Blogger, we can’t boast of being the biggest, funniest, most interesting or influential blog.…
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