Dinner party with 20 invited guests?  No problem.

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I am not a Luddite, but I have been offered membership in their club many times. 

I’m always slow to embrace change.  Even now, I only use my cell phone for calls and the occasional text message.  Although I have been a mainframe compu/… Read full post »

NEW YORK – Thousands of protesters descended on the Theater District yesterday in a massive rally its leaders dubbed Occupy Times Square.

Although the event is clearly modeled on the Occupy Wall Street demonstration that started several days ago, it is… Read full post »

(With apologies to Stephen E.F. Brown for stealing his article this week in the San Francisco Business Times. My comments are in parentheses.)

Salon.com, the erstwhile darling of Internet news sites (like Newt Gingrich, the Internet abandoned its… Read full post »

I haven’t seen the movie Moneyball yet, though I’m anxious to (I hear there is a talented, good-looking guy playing David Justice).  As a serious baseball fan (whose mind is still boggled by th/… Read full post »

Many people have a visceral dislike for defense attorneys.  Mention the attorneys for O.J. Simpson or Casey Anthony, and these people will spit.  They wonder how these lawyers can sleep at night after a day spent defending a scumbag.

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We are gullible, every one of us.  Especially including myself.

The Internet is a treasure trove of information: facts, documents, opinions of all stripes.  Except for the limitations of time, there really is no reason for us to be ill-informed a/… Read full post »

I had that dream again last night.  I have variations of that dream frequently.  The details of the dream change each t/… Read full post »

“Hey, hon, I’m all out of beer, grab me a six-pack. … Read full post »

No comments necessary either.

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(After much pleading with God’s press agent, I finally got to sit down with the Deity for a rare interview. Amazingly, his office looks just like the Far Side cartoon where he sits at a computer and presses the “Smite” button.  However, to my surprise,/… Read full post »

Ten years ago?  I remember it like it was yesterday.

I remember that it was a beautiful morning: deep blue sky, pleasant temperature, low humidity, the kind of perfect September day when you want to call in sick and have an end-of-summer picnic.

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Mary Ann Sorrentino has a "20 Questions" post up this afternoon. Her last qu… Read full post »

I’m not in the habit of recommending TV shows I haven’t seen nor, with the glut of programs marking the tenth anniversary of 9/11, am I prone to single one out.  However, tonight I’ll be watching a two-hour program on TLC at 9:00 pm (repeated at 1/… Read full post »

There’s quite a crowd here for the first annual Open Salon Labor Day Weekend Cookout.  And why wou/… Read full post »

While avoiding the drenching downpour of Irene, I mindlessly surfed the Net – well, I do everything mindlessly - and learned a few things that I didn’t know – and there’s a lot I don’t know - so I’ve turned them into trivia questions.  I don’t have any v… Read full post »

It’s great to be back here at the Iowa State Fair.  All the food vendors remember me and my hearty/… Read full post »

This is perfect weather for me since “I was born in a crossfire hurricane,” so tonight and tomorrow, it will just be “you and me and rain on the roof.”  I don’t care if the “surf’s up, mmm-hmm, aboard a tidal wave,” stay away fr/… Read full post »

I headed toward the entrance of my usual K Street hangout, and was startled to be stopped by a Secret Service agent.

“ID?” he snapped.

I pulled out my driver’s license and showed it to him. “What’s going on?”

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A magnitude 5.9 earthquake hit the East Coast this afternoon, centered in Virginia.  Government buildings in D.C. were evacuated as were courts and offices in New York.  The tremor was felt as far away as Toronto and Boston.

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I don’t wish to make light of tragedy, but: “Brain-Eating Amoeba?”  Didn’t I see that movie on Chiller Theater when I was 14?  If the world is becoming a 1950s horror film, we’re doomed. 

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                               "Hubby sure prayed my gay away!"

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For years, I suffered from a debilitating angst.  I was tormented by the moral implication of every action I took and every product I bought.  I obsessed about every tragedy in the world and I fumed about every –ism.

But then one day, I real… Read full post »

(Since I had nothing to post today, Mitt Romney asked if he could use my blog.  He has started his own blog here at OS, but he told me that he would be talking today about an issue of great importance and wanted to reach a larger audience.  Now/… Read full post »