I know this sounds kind of odd, but bear with me for a moment.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Analogy of End of Days and Global Warming
I know this sounds kind of odd, but bear with me for a moment.
Monday, June 29, 2009
The Roof Closes....
Friday, June 26, 2009
Zela's Skin
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Farrah and Micheal
Fox News and the Confusing R vs. D
I felt Sorry for Mark Sanford
I happened to be watching when Mark Sanford had his news conference yesterday. I felt bad for him.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Back from the sun
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Sun and 100 degrees
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It is beautfiul, warm and the pool is SWEET.
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kisses
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Mousavi and Obama
After the Iranian election there is a lot of talk about what we should do or say.
Senator Ensign: My Marriage- against God... His Marriage including his affair with a married woman: Good
Senator Ensign on gay marriage this year.."Marriage is the cornerstone on which our society was founded. For those who say that the Constitution is so sacred that we cannot or should not adopt the Federal Marriage Amendment, I would simply point out that marriage, and the sanctity of that institution, predates the American Constitution and the founding of our nation."
Ensign, 51, would not identify the woman but said she and her husband had been "close friends." Her husband, he said, also worked for him.
"Last year, I had an affair," the Republican senator said outside his office in Las Vegas. "I violated the vows of marriage. It's absolutely the worst thing I've done in my life.
"I take full responsibility for my actions. I know I have deeply hurt and disappointed my wife, Darlene, my children, my family, friends, my staff and those who believed in me. And to all of them, especially my wife, I'm truly sorry," he said.
Why So Quiet Scooter?
Waiting.... waiting....
Monday, June 15, 2009
Good Night and Good Luck Ned, Olive and Chuck
Sunday, June 14, 2009
And Today We Are Four!
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Figment Festival on Govornors Island (no apostrophe)
The "bushes" in front were made of pictures of people. And the Dragon in the back is made from Chairs.
Walking around the island, Eddie held up the Statue of Liberty.
This is me on a giant rocking piece of concrete that also leaves art on the ground. Total fun!!
This was just cool art with flowers.
Overtake the Principality on the non-right
The other day, Ed was singing, as you do - and he sang "Pass the douchie pan left hand side."
Friday, June 12, 2009
Cougars...
Who can turn the world on with a smile??
Why 4 Hours?
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Fun Rant on the British, Airports and International Relations (not by me!)
I am sitting in the lounge at Heathrow's Terminal Five, a monument to the idea that one of the few acceptable occupations for sadists that doesn't involve wearing black leather or working in TV programming is designing airline terminals. It is absurdly complex, gigantic, uninviting, cold and just the perfect atmosphere for turning weary travelers into snarling, drooling knots of hostility.
In fact, I have a theory that one of the central problems in international relations is created by the brutal, dehumanizing nature of world travel. Well intentioned souls who want to build international understanding and good will get on airplanes and by the time they get to their destination, they want to kill, subjugate native cultures and exploit their natural resources. If people on airlines were actually nice and airports were not the meat-grinders of the soulthey are, perhaps people would arrive in new countries with a positive outlook, a smile and less of an impulse to steal valuable intellectual property.
Of course, it all depends on the country into which you arrive. My 24 hours in the United Kingdom have exposed me to a kind of giddiness that one seldom sees outside the slumber parties of 11-year-old girls. There is only one thing that can cause the British to drop the reserved mortician act and reveal their inner Spice Girl (or for the more sophisticated among you, their inner Alan Ayckbourn). And that of course is the misfortune of prominent Brits, in this case, Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
It is ironic that Brown, who probably couldn't inspire a reflection out of his mirror, is triggering such hilarity. But following what newspapers are heralding as the worst national election defeat for his party since King Arthur (ok, since the first World War), the prime minister has people marveling at the surpassing awfulness of his situation. In the wake of scandal, financial crisis, fiscal catastrophe and Manchester United's crushing defeat at the hands of Barcelona, Brown is hanging on only by what the Guardian calls "the brute business of internal politics, especially the crushing of internal dissent." Key cabinet members have resigned. Others are openly plotting against him. And yet, Rasputin-like, he survives the poisoning, the gun-shots, and the stabbings.
Of course, ultimately Rasputin got tossed in the river and drowned and sooner or later Brown will probably go the way of the dodo. And the Labour Party will probably go with him. Probably. But talking to a senior British business leader today, it was explained that if only Labour could forestall an election until next year and if the economy were to start to turn around, "they might just win because no one believes that the Conservatives, once in office, actually will have any idea what to do."
You see, the problem with the conservatives is that what they are right now is The Party That is Not Labour. And appropriately, their leader, David Cameron, is The Political Leader Who Is Not Gordon Brown. Literally, that is virtually Cameron's only distinction. He is, in the words of one member of the House of Lords with whom I spoke (Ooo La La. The House of Lords. They would be so impressed back in New Jersey.), "a former PR guy, that says it all." I've actually met Cameron. I chaired a panel he was on in Davos once. And I have to say, he's such an empty suit he wouldn't feel out of place on a hanger at Brooks Brothers.
So that is the choice here in the United Kingdom: the guys who screwed it up versus the guys who are going to screw it up...at a moment when the country and all Europe face problems of a scale unseen in decades. Which is why the giddiness at the horrendousness of the past few days for Brown seems an appropriate reaction. Much like the laughter you see coming from the shell-shocked in old British war movies. It's also why every one I spoke to here, regardless of political persuasion got all doe-eyed and misty whenever Barack Obama's name came up. They're not sure he will be a big success either. But at least he might be. At least he looks like a leader. At least he sounds like one.
Meanwhile Britain is as rudderless as it has been at any time since the 1970s when they were teaching the world a thing or two about collapsing empires and bungled bail-outs of auto companies. (Which reminds me. Speaking of botched leadership, Steve Rattner, please go read about British Leyland.)
And this damn airport is not helping to dispel the impression of a nation in disarray. So I'm leaving. And going someplace that is prospering: Mumbai.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Once Again... Los Angeles leaves me unprepared..
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Mascot of the Month: Man Fixes Traffic
Lessons Learned
Last night I saw "The Amish Project", a show impossible to describe here because it sounds dumb or sappy and it wasn't.
Monday, June 08, 2009
I Love the British Word: Exchecker
Two peoples, separated by a common language.
Friday, June 05, 2009
Thank God! NOW I Feel Safe Going to the UCLA - TENN Game Next Year
Rhetorical Aside is an Actual Truth
Panic Mode at the Development Group at "A" Bank
A bank that shall remain nameless has suddenly dropped into full fledged Panic Mode.
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
I don't condone, but anyone stuck on the 405 for hours understands.....
I don't, of course, condone this behavior - let me make that crystal clear.
Permit Me A Moment
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
And then TV Take-ith Away
Just when I thought "The Cougar" was the nadir of television and civilization, television has lowered the bar yet again. (Although not civilization - the fact we live in a world where "The Cougar" doesn't have her children put in protective care is scarier than Kim Jon Il.)