Lawrence O'Donnell Just Said There's Nothing to Worry About
with respect to NSA spying and data mining. Cell phone calls were never secure, anyway.WHAT. A. HACK.Anyway...O'Donnell wants you all to know...you can pull the covers up tonight and sleep tight....
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Business in the Front, Party in the Back: Driving Down Memory Lane in a '68...
When is a pickup more than a pickup, and a muscle car more than a muscle car? When it's a '68 El-Co, that's when. It was a sleek hybrid that probably wasn't good as either a serious pickup or a truly...
View ArticleAn Affair to Remember? Has Anyone Who's Actually Had an Affair Ever Forgotten...
I have had this diary in my queue for almost 2 years. From time to time I revisit it and try to hone what it is I really want to say. I didn't want it to be a diary about lust. Or about conquest....
View ArticleI Really Don't Care Anymore...I Just Want to Get Out Alive
My outrage meter has been pegged to the top for so long that I think it's stuck. Once in awhile I tap it, but it doesn't budge.I just want to collect my social security and move to Ecuador. That's...
View ArticleCape Fear: My Neighbor's Max Cady Moment
Guillermo gets out of prison in 6 days. My neighbor is distraught. He walks over and talks to me about it, and I don't know what to say to him. Part of me wants to say he is evidencing a classic...
View ArticleThe Boys of Summer...Pittsburgh Edition
Yeah...Pittsburgh. The Pirates. The team that hasn't turned in a winning season since 1992. When Johnny Carson was still hosting the Tonight Show. THOSE Pirates.For those of you who might be tired...
View ArticleCan Anyone Summarize Hillary Clinton's Message/Worldview in 25 Words or Less?
Another day watching cable news, and another day hearing the cogniscenti proclaiming that Hillary Clinton is running for president, and the presumptive front runner at this early stage.My problem with...
View ArticleThis is What Keeps Portland, OR Wierd
This will be a brief and fluffy diary, but I felt it would resonate. I live just about a mile and a half from a rather upscale neighborhood of older homes, on large lots shaded by leafy, majestic,...
View ArticleThe Lost Art of Album Cover Design, Six of My Favorite Covers and Their...
One of the best things about vinyl LP's was the album art. It was tactile. Large format. Sometimes it was even textural. While you listened to the music, you could hold the album jacket in your...
View ArticleBored to Death in Duncan, Oklahoma
I checked in to see if the news out of Duncan, Oklahoma, yesterday had made any ripples in the DKos pond or prompted any diaries. I can't say that I'm surprised that it hasn't.An Australian college...
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A Songbird Has Lost its Voice: Linda Ronstadt Has Parkinsons
I know there are more momentous things going on in the world, but I just read this story this morning, and it made me sad. It also made me feel suddenly old.How can it be that Linda Ronstadt, whose...
View ArticleWhat's For Dinner? Steak on a Budget
I don't eat a lot of steak these days. It is expensive, and I'm on a budget...and my wife can really take red meat or leave it. But sometimes you just want to put your knife and fork into some beef,...
View ArticleWhat if David Allan Coe Wrote a DKos Diary?
Work with me here...I need your help. Remember the David Allan Coe song, "She Never Even Called Me by My Name"? In case you don't, here it is. It was a gentle poke in the eye at the time it was...
View ArticleI Am, Personally, Responsible for All of the Evil The World
All of it. From Hutu vs Tutsi genocide in Rwanda.To gang related mayhem in inner city Chicago.To the sexual trafficking in young women by Eastern European Mafias.To Urban Blight.Melting polar icecaps?...
View ArticleDante Was Wrong...There Are Ten Circles of Hell: He Didn't Anticipate Cable...
Dante's "Divine Comedy" describes 9 circles of hell. But he can easily be forgiven his inability to anticipate the Cable industry, which currently bundles virtually all of your home digital services...
View ArticleCalling All Southern Cooks!! I Need Some Quick Advice
I have a neighbor who I've been friendly with, in a neighborly way for 1 1/2 years now. He's an ex-marine, Black, and hails from Arkansas. He has been telling me for weeks now that we need to get...
View Article"The Grand Old Man": Memories of a Famous Season. George Blanda and the 1970...
The regular season of the NFL has begun. The news yesterday was all about Peyton Manning's amazing performance against last year's Super Bowl Champs, racking up 7 touchdowns in one game. It was an...
View ArticleYou Can Teach a Young Dog Old Tricks: Driving a Clutch
I was standing outside in my driveway today, working on my own car, when an old Volvo approached the intersection in my residential neighborhood. It had a "For Sale" sign in the rear window.The driver...
View ArticleMy First Garden Was the Best: Adventures in Growing Vegetables
I once grew a garden on my Mother's property...it was probably about 30' by 100'.It was the first vegetable garden I ever grew. I've planted many since, but never one that matched that garden.I had...
View ArticleWhen I Grow Up, I Want to be Willie Nelson
Fact is, I just turned 57 a cuppla days ago...so if I'm not grown up now, chances are I never will be. I was born in 1956. Saw the Beatles. Heard the Stones. I asked the aged old question...Why do...
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