A Good Year for the Outlaw

What color is the sky in Sean Hannity’s world? (I know, I know, it’s pretty much already been established that he’s f’en nuts.) I subscribed to his “newsletter” recently, for a couple of daily yuks while I’m getting ready for the day. And Sean doesn’t disappoint. But this week he has gone beyond simple [...]

[Read more]

I wish I had the link so I could add it to this post, but I recently saw where many area schools, specifically those Middle Schools in the Peoria School District, scaled back the “celebration” of “graduating” from the 8th grade.
Good move. Seriously. Absolutely the right call.
When I saw this story back in April, [...]

[Read more]

John Cena from the WWE, Justin Morneau, Minnesota Twins’ slugging first baseman.

[Read more]

 Consumer Reports…Consumer Reports!…is terribly upset at Billy Ray Cyrus and his daughter Miley for appearing on film not wearing seat belts in a moving vehicle.  Now, something like this I’d expect from “Focus On The Family” or some other “we’re going to tell everyone how to live or else” type organization like that, but Consumer [...]

[Read more]

Chase made a comment on a thread below, and it reminded me of a recent discussion I had with some of my internet fantasy baseball buddies.
I prefer to call so-called pro-lifers “anti-choice”. Why? Because when it comes to the death penalty and war, they’re usually more eager to pursue and condone the death penalty and [...]

[Read more]

Ahh, what a nice weekend.
The Twins are red-hot, and two straight over the pathetic Cubs is icing on the cake. The Twins are going for the sweep right now, but even if they lose today, they’ve won the series. Who would have thought the AL Central, with the Tigers, Twins and White Sox, would [...]

[Read more]

Whoops.
Porky Hastert not only brings home the bacon to Illinois, but he goes beyond that and fills his bank vault in the process.
Sickening.

[Read more]

That is a question I pose to Peoria Journal-Star letter writer Donald Frank of Washington today. His letter in this morning’s paper points out his disgust with John Kerry and other “liberal politicians” (there’s that dirty word “liberal” again) for wanting a timetable and a withdrawal date from Iraq, wondering if those people are not [...]

[Read more]

Just got an email this morning from the Blogger Team, they got my stuff back online. Thank you to Alexander, who sent me a note saying he’d recovered the blog.

[Read more]

One thing that the political right has lambasted the left on for many years is “politically correct speaking”. And in many cases, they are dead on the money.
But the left doesn’t have a stranglehold on “politically correct” anymore.
The Bush Administration constant comes up with new ways to try to soften a bad situation, [...]

[Read more]

Yep, went to see it on opening night. When you’ve got a 10-year old, and when you’re personally fascinated by the utter brilliance of Pixar’s animation, you go on opening night.
Enjoyed the movie very much. Paul Newman as the Hudson was perfect, of course I’m a fan of the idiotic comic stylings of Larry [...]

[Read more]

Dudes (and dudettes) that drive 48-52 in a 55, forcing you to follow them for several hilly miles, then speed up when you try to pass, then flip you off when you finally get by. ARRGH.
Drivers that turn left onto a two- or three-lanes wide street…and go ALLLL THHHEEE WAAAYYYY to the right lane. Quick [...]

[Read more]

Which scenario is more damaging:
Two quiet, private men who have been monogamous for 22 years and would like to remain that way for 40 more…or a polygamist who has forced 14-, 15- and 16-year old girls to marry adult men and give birth to their children?
Which scenario is more damaging:
Two women committed to each other [...]

[Read more]

Oh, what an interesting half hour I had tonight:
At 8:07, I arrived at a local fast food chain’s drive thru. I’m not going to name the place, but let’s just say it rhymes with “Fairy Spleen”. I know it was 8:07, because I glanced down to turn the CD player down. The CD player was [...]

[Read more]

Let’s start the clock and see how long it takes for this to be called a “cheapshot”.

[Read more]

I do like the question that is posed. Good humor. A true tickler.

[Read more]

So the long-grass Nazis are already out in force in East Peoria. If you don’t live there, you should know that as soon as your lawn gets a little long, you get a “friendly reminder” from that city that you need to mow the lawn or risk getting a ticket.
Meanwhile, the weeds along the [...]

[Read more]

Senate’s top Democrat took free boxing tickets
Add Harry Reid to the list of dipsticks getting free stuff to “learn how his legislation might affect an important home state industry.” Bull. Boxing is one of Nevada’s largest industries and the lobbyists wanted something from him, so they provided him with primo seats for big fights. [...]

[Read more]

Obviously, this one has been going on for years. But it doesn’t make it any less annoying. It just happened again on my way back from the store:
While I sit inside my 4,000 lb Pontiac coupe, surrounded by air bags both front and side, metal all around me and over me, safety features built into [...]

[Read more]

Buh-bye, Kenny-boy. Buh-bye Ol’ Skillster. Hopefully someday some of the good ol’ boys living in the White House can join you. Jerks.

[Read more]

There’s been quite a bit of talk in the Journal Star letters to the editor lately about tips. Gratuities. The writers say the people of Peoria are poor tippers, i.e. tightwads. They’re right, from what I can see.
I spent seven years in Nevada. You give everyone a tip who provides a service for you. At [...]

[Read more]

Iraqi minister defends Iranian nuclear program
So here’s a man who was appointed by the Iraqi Interim Governing Council, which was appointed by the Bush Administration, saying that Iran has every right to pursue nuclear technology.
Look for him to get his walking papers sometime in the next week or two, that would be my guess. [...]

[Read more]

I have long said, and taken heat from co-workers for it, that I don’t make blanket statements like “I support the troops”, because in fact I don’t support all of them. I don’t like to make ANY blanket statement, because there’s always a bad apple or two in every bunch.
So when I see this:
Pentagon [...]

[Read more]

…to Kewanee, in the next month, I can write an open letter to Ameren:
To Whom It May Concern,
If your company’s mission statement is to have yourselves and your employees become known as the meanest, rudest, most heartless, most uncaring, most undiplomatic, most arrogant monopoly in history…CONGRATULATIONS, YOU’RE A WINNER!!!!
If that is NOT your mission statement, [...]

[Read more]

The Minneapolis Tribune’s “By The Numbers” always puts things into perspective for me.
Here are some recent findings:
73 percent
Correlation between those saying that “prayer is an important part of my daily life” and those saying that “the best way to ensure peace is through military strength,” according to a study by the Harvard Institute of [...]

[Read more]