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May 31, 2010
Geezer Monday
The way things were back when we all were one.
May 30, 2010
Inspirational Sunday
The Trial of Pope Benedict"From today's crisis, a church will emerge tomorrow that will have lost a great deal," he said on German radio. "She will be small and, to a large extent, will have to start from the beginning. She will no longer be able to fill many of the buildings created in her period of great splendor. Because of the smaller number of her followers, she will lose many of her privileges in society. Contrary to what has happened until now, she will present herself much more as a community of volunteers ... As a small community, she will demand much more from the initiative of each of her members and she will certainly also acknowledge new forms of ministry and will raise up to the priesthood proven Christians who have other jobs ... It will make her poor and a church of the little people ... All this will require time. The process will be slow and painful."
- Joseph Ratzinger (a long time ago, in a land faraway, before the hidden storm.)
- Joseph Ratzinger (a long time ago, in a land faraway, before the hidden storm.)
May 28, 2010
Big Mattress Song of the Week • 6/1-6/7
Reaching back to the golden days of Underground Radio!
Judy Henske: High Flying Bird. (Richie Havens made it popular, but this was always my favorite version.)"
If Linda Ronstadt's a torch singer, Henske's a flame thrower."
- Andrew Vachss
(You can also hear the song and browse away from this page by clicking on the red button- top right corner of the main page.)
May 27, 2010
When Families Disagree..
"Blood might be thicker than water, but politics is thicker than blood."
- Charles Laquidara • 2010
- Charles Laquidara • 2010
Love My Country • Love My Government
Not that this will penetrate any Tea-brains, but... here's the parallax view to counterpoint the droning whine: "Government is the problem;" "Government is bad;" "too much big Government;" etc. blah blah
May 26, 2010
Freaky Friday
Intercepted highly-classified conversation recently decoded after three decades investigation by U.N. Clandestine Operations • Building 14 •Interpol T and I (Translating and Interpreting) Division, Canton de Neuchatel, Switzerland.
May 25, 2010
Garnett Explains the Island to Big Baby
(Spoiler Alert)!!
May 22, 2010
Thank a Smoker Day!
Smokers always get shat upon. They have to stand in the freezing cold outside of their workplaces- sometimes up to 20 feet away from buildings. They get sneered at and jeered at and treated like second-class citizens everywhere they go (except maybe in Hollywood or Tokyo).
Well, it's time to change all that- at least for one day a year.
I propose that Sunday, May 23, be designated as Thank a Smoker Day. But, I will need your help and input. In the comment section below, please list one positive thing about smokers. (We'll get you started, and then please see if you can come up with more good reasons why, on this one day a year, we should suck it up and thank a smoker):
1. The money they pay in taxes helps build our schools and highways.
2. They die sooner- thus helping to contain world overpopulation, famine and available living space.
3. They give that “raspy voice” effect to some or our best jazz and blues singers.
4. Millions of dollars into the economy on Nicorettes, motivational tapes, patches and hypnotists.
5. Their discarded butts have enabled scientists to create a chemical that helps protect steel.
6. Without "never say quit" smokers, there'd be no sensational fireballs caused by aging wheezers who forget that open flames and flowing oxygen should never meet. NOTE: My editor/producer, Mr. Duane Ingalls Glasscock, will be deleting comments that he feels are either lame, not entertaining, overly serious or not on subject. I will add the best ones to this list
Well, it's time to change all that- at least for one day a year.
I propose that Sunday, May 23, be designated as Thank a Smoker Day. But, I will need your help and input. In the comment section below, please list one positive thing about smokers. (We'll get you started, and then please see if you can come up with more good reasons why, on this one day a year, we should suck it up and thank a smoker):
1. The money they pay in taxes helps build our schools and highways.2. They die sooner- thus helping to contain world overpopulation, famine and available living space.
3. They give that “raspy voice” effect to some or our best jazz and blues singers.
4. Millions of dollars into the economy on Nicorettes, motivational tapes, patches and hypnotists.
5. Their discarded butts have enabled scientists to create a chemical that helps protect steel.
6. Without "never say quit" smokers, there'd be no sensational fireballs caused by aging wheezers who forget that open flames and flowing oxygen should never meet. NOTE: My editor/producer, Mr. Duane Ingalls Glasscock, will be deleting comments that he feels are either lame, not entertaining, overly serious or not on subject. I will add the best ones to this list
Big Mattress Song of the Week
If I had to make a list of the greatest love songs of all time, Walden Robert Cassotto's version of I Will Wait for You from The Umbrellas of Cherbourg would be in my top 20. (You can always hear the song by clicking on the red button- top right corner of the main page- and browse as you listen.)
Geezer Monday
Are you older Tonight? If so, please click here. Caution: This is only funny if you remember how old the naughty lady of shady lane was.
and by the way:
and by the way:
May 21, 2010
Yahoo Unanswered Question of the Biennium
May 20, 2010
Freaky Friday
When you care enough to just say go.
May 18, 2010
To Our Children of the Future:
“...the structures of domination and oppression in a society are at their successful worst when the assumptions and ways of thinking that underwrite their tyranny have been internalized by their victims”:
“The very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradictions of the concrete, existential situation by which they were shaped.”
“If the ideas and values of the oppressor are all you ever hear, they will be yours: that is what hegemony means — and it will take a special and radical effort to liberate yourself from them”.
“That effort is education, properly reconceived- not as the delivery of pre-packaged knowledge to passive students- but as the active dismantling, by teachers and students together, of the world view that sustains the powers that be and insulates them from deep challenge.”
“Only when this is done, will students cease to adapt to the word as it is and instead become “transformers of that world.” -Paulo Freire
“The very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradictions of the concrete, existential situation by which they were shaped.”
“If the ideas and values of the oppressor are all you ever hear, they will be yours: that is what hegemony means — and it will take a special and radical effort to liberate yourself from them”.
“That effort is education, properly reconceived- not as the delivery of pre-packaged knowledge to passive students- but as the active dismantling, by teachers and students together, of the world view that sustains the powers that be and insulates them from deep challenge.”
“Only when this is done, will students cease to adapt to the word as it is and instead become “transformers of that world.” -Paulo Freire
May 17, 2010
Testosterone Tuesday
How a real man takes off his underwear.
May 16, 2010
Read Your Tires (NOT zzzzzzz!!)
Your tires may be much, much older than you think! You could save a lot of potential drama by simply checking your tires for one quick look. Follow all the little numbers, symbols and letters to the very end on the right.
It will look something like this. (Code= tires were manufactured in the 42nd week of 2002). That is a Fed code for the exact date the tire was made. Does not matter when you bought those tires- They could have been sitting in a warehouse for six or seven years and they are still old- no matter what the dealer or salesman says. (All new tread with lots of nice space means absolutely nothing as far as safety is concerned.) The age of your tires is crucial. Before you put those tires on your vehicle, find out how old they really are.
You still not sure it's worth the bend and read? Watch this. (There's the usual 30-second ad).
[Thanks to Mike Andrade for the heads-up].
It will look something like this. (Code= tires were manufactured in the 42nd week of 2002). That is a Fed code for the exact date the tire was made. Does not matter when you bought those tires- They could have been sitting in a warehouse for six or seven years and they are still old- no matter what the dealer or salesman says. (All new tread with lots of nice space means absolutely nothing as far as safety is concerned.) The age of your tires is crucial. Before you put those tires on your vehicle, find out how old they really are.
You still not sure it's worth the bend and read? Watch this. (There's the usual 30-second ad).
[Thanks to Mike Andrade for the heads-up].
May 15, 2010
Big Mattress Song of the Week
Lena Horne: I Love Paris
(You can always hear the song by clicking on the red button- top right corner of the main page- and browse as you listen.)
Inspirational Sunday
May 14, 2010
FREAKNESS: Big Race Weekend
NOTICE: not work/family friendly • use headsetsIt's that time of year again, folks, when we bring back the now-infamous classic horse race from TheHoneymoonisOver Downs.
De Nile Runneth Over
Keep on Truckin'
May 13, 2010
Oh My- You Mean... They Lie?!!
“Study after study has shown that immigrants grow the economy, expanding demand for goods and services that the foreign-born workers and their families consume, and thereby creating jobs. There is even broad agreement among economists that while immigrants may push down wages for some, the overall effect is to increase average wages for American-born workers.”
May 11, 2010
Estrogen Wednesday
Can't we all just...
May 10, 2010
O Mama • Obama
Barack, you're moving 
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Rights right from the Right
Your Haircut Graph
May 8, 2010
Inspirational Sunday
No More Taxes!! No More Taxes!
"The fate of our country won't be decided on a battlefield- It'll be determined in a classroom."
OMG!! • WWII • WTF!• LOL
World War II: (Facebook v.)
Big Mattress Song of the Week (May 8-May 15)
Sixties-Style Suggestive Seducing
Chevrolet: Jim Kweskin Jug Band • featuring Geoff and Maria Muldaur (You can hear the song by clicking on the red button- top right corner of the main page- and browse as you listen.)
May 5, 2010
Bradbury, Asimov and Heinlein had it Right!
May 4, 2010
Dear Mr. President: Your "Benefit of the Doubt" Pass is Wearing Thin.
I was expecting President Obama to move towards the center for the upcoming elections, but this is not what I had in mind. I am going to be sick to my stomach...As Obama Moves slowly to the Right..I am slowly moving away from Obama.
(I cannot believe this is happening!) 1. Nuclear Power Plants
2. Offshore Oil Drilling
3. Hunting and Killing of Whales
4. Net Neutrality abandoned by Obama FCC 5. The above are the definite things I am pissed about. (I am still being patient and cautiously optimistic about the two wars, the bank and auto bail-outs and his "don't ask-don't tell" (or whatever it is) military policy.
(I cannot believe this is happening!) 1. Nuclear Power Plants
2. Offshore Oil Drilling
3. Hunting and Killing of Whales
4. Net Neutrality abandoned by Obama FCC 5. The above are the definite things I am pissed about. (I am still being patient and cautiously optimistic about the two wars, the bank and auto bail-outs and his "don't ask-don't tell" (or whatever it is) military policy.
May 2, 2010
To Paraphrase Led Zeppelin..
How many more times do we have to read this, to get the message...?
May 1, 2010
Interesting Word of Day
(As a verb it has nothing to do with its twin brother, the adjective!)
• staunch: adjective 1 loyal and committed in attitude : a staunch supporter of the antinuclear lobby | a staunch Catholic. 2 (of a wall) of strong or firm construction. • staunch: (also variant spelling of stanch) verb 1 stop or restrict (a flow of blood) from a wound : colleagues may have saved her life by stanching the flow | the company did nothing to stanch the tide of rumors. stop the flow of blood from (a wound). Here it is in this week's Time Mag:
“Today's Top Stories: Outlook Dims on Efforts to Stanch Gulf Oil Spill.” More for the OCD verbologists out there:
“Today's Top Stories: Outlook Dims on Efforts to Stanch Gulf Oil Spill.” More for the OCD verbologists out there:
