A little off subject, this past weekend I attended a five-year-old's birthday party at a house with a backyard pool. When we arrived, the five-year-old was in the pool with a life jacket on, and a toddler barely walking had climbed up the ladder and was poised right on the edge with no adult anywhere near or paying…

If I want the thrill of a roller coaster I'll watch one on Youtube!

Curly-headed rock star: check

This article about "30K millionaires" in Dallas is a few years old, but some might find it interesting. http://www.dallasobserver.com/2007-11-29/new…

Silent mode? Ugh...I remember seeing some kind of documentary about cigar factories in Cuba where they have live musicians playing in order to happy up the repetitive work. And I hope it's not insensitive to mention slave songs that were sung along with agricultural work. I also read that music takes away about 25…

I know an electrical engineer who underwent a MTF sex change operation. The first thing I asked was whether she noticed getting patted on the head and less plum assignments as a woman. Yes, definitely, she said. It didn't at that time seem to bother her to the extent that she regretted the change. She wanted to be…

Ugh...I grew up in a fundie sect where women are below dogs, worms, and fruitflies. And yet I've never met as blatant and relentless of MCP's as the old guys in the Sierra Club. (MCP, in case anyone doesn't recognize that term, is short for "male chauvinist pig" from the 70's) (Sorry to femsplain) Anyway, it has…

Meet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, intellectual man-child of the Victorian age. Wounded by critics, he didn't publish for ten years. And he strung Emily Sellwood along for eleven years until he could work out some way marrying her wasn't caving in on his unconventional spiritual beliefs. Peevish, pompous, and moody, he…

As a lifelong singleton, I am with you. I made up my mind when I was younger that I would be ***damned*** if my worth, socially, professionally, spiritually, or in any possible way would be one iota different if I was coupled or single. You're you married or single, and marriage doesn't have to bury your…

Julius Caesar said alcohol was the Germanic tribes' only weakness. He said they're fearless on the battlefield and can endure any hardship—but take away their alcohol and they'll go home.

Me too, may I join the Pretty Foot Club pretty please?

A tornado hit my parents' house and they were fine financially. I did caution them not to get in a fight with their builder or their insurance company. The insurance company was great. They paid the builder in three installments so my parents didn't have to fork over large amounts to the builder while their house…

If you want time to have a social life and get some exercise, NEVER buy a house.

Sadly, my celebrity crush turned out to be a huge right-winger. Gary Sinise (I'm old) how could you?

That goes 100-fold for child care. You NEVER get a relax moment unless someone else watches the baby. I think if one parent would take the kids to the park for the day and the other parent mow the lawn, clean the entire house, and cook and do laundry for the week, clean the gutters, paint the house, and put a roof…

'76 Grand Prix

My Grandpa had one!

When I was in graduate school (1980) someone mentioned that Victorian writer John Ruskin was so freaked out on his wedding night by his wife's pubic hair that he died a virgin. We all thought that was so ridiculous and freaky. We had never, ever heard that pubic hair was supposed to be gross and we thought John…

I don't seem like it on here, but I'm a joke writer, and it takes me roughly an hour to get one one-liner accepted. It's not that I sit down for an hour and crank out a one-liner. I sit down for four hours and crank out two pages, and four of those are accepted *if I'm lucky.* Part of the four hours is devoted to…

I think Bush was nothing more than a figurehead, as well.