January 2009
Of pants and power
Dr. Darling: Honey, I'm not bothered by the fact that you make more money than me.
Shazzer: That's nice, because I'm really bothered by the fact that I make more money than you.
Dr. Darling: You are?
Shazzer: Hell yes. I moved to Sweden to marry a doctor, and here I am shacked up with a PhD postal carrier.
Dr Darling: So it was all about the salary you thought I was going to earn?
Shazzer: Well, that wasn't the ONLY thing. But if I wanted to move DOWN the socio-economic ladder, it would have been a lot simpler to just stay in the US.
Washington weather weenies
Barack Obama evidently ruffled some feathers in Washington, DC yesterday when he expressed surprise that his daughters’ schools were closed due to inclement weather.
Obama: Washington needs “Chicago Toughness”
I have to say, as a city kid who burned with jealousy on a regular basis because the rural county school kids got a snow day when I did not, I’m with the new...
Crack Mac team stymied by a WinDoze White House
This has got to be beyond painful for Obama staffers.
Staff Finds White House in the Technological Dark Ages
It’s bad enough to have to curtail their relentlessly successful use of social networking tools, but it seems communication team members couldn’t even update the new White House website from their offices:
“One member of the White House new-media team came to work on...
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The invisible Bishop Robinson
I didn’t think much of missing Rev. Gene Robinson’s opening prayer at Sunday’s “We Are One” concert on the Lincoln Memorial. I just assumed that the Swedish station carrying it had picked up the feed a little late. (Swedish TV programers are famous for their inattention to detail.)
But it turns out that folks watching in the U.S. didn’t see the Robinson...
And to think I was happy to get a Pell Grant...
I know the amount of state and federal financial aid available to help U.S. college students has been in serious decline since I graduated from university, but has it really come to this?!
Student auctions off virginity for offers of more than £2.5 million
The student in question is trying to finance a Master’s degree in “family and marriage therapy”, and according to the...
Do you, Shazzer, take this taco...
While I doubt I could ever talk Dr. Darling into tying the knot at a Taco Bell restaurant, I could totally see my Beloved Bell catering the reception!
Couple marries at Taco Bell
The mysterious physics of tinsel
This season’s Christmas tree was a bit bigger than previous years’, so I had to break into my precious stash of unopened packages of imported tinsel to supplement the recycled stuff. It was a good call because the boughs absolutely sparkled, but about half-way through the delicate task of taking it off the tree, it became clear that the box I had been using for tinsel storage was no...
Crackberry Addicts Unite!
Evidently the President-Elect is still fighting for the right to keep his Blackberry, and based on my brother’s inability to leave his alone during his recent visit, I’m not surprised.
I do not envy Davy the cellphone bill he’s in for later this month. He did a pretty good job of avoiding voice calls, and I tried to help by handing him a landline phone and mouthing the words...
The Obama Inaugural Limerick
From The Last Chance Democracy Cafe
There once was a man named Barack Who flew to the top like a hawk. This caused disbelief That a Commander in Chief, Could actually chew gum and still walk.