On macaque, bigots, and mame

The following contains language that I find bigoted and offensive and you may too.   
Senate candidate Jim Webb from Virginia need only keep his trap shut in order to beat incumbent moron George “Macaca” Allen.  If he flies low under the radar,  Allen’s antics will assure Mr. Webb a crappy office on the hill come 2007.
Recent Allen miss-steps include denying [...]

Sunday night insomnia

In a perfect world, Sundays would be an opportunity for me to take a deep breath, reflect on all the accomplishments of the prior week, and plan out my stellar attack on the following week’s to-do list.
I suck at to-do lists.  I suck at organization.  I suck at following through.  I’ve felt like I’m three months [...]

Finally, a blogger whose book I want to read

Slutty Washingtoniennes, Carrie Bradshaw wannabes, pretentious artistes, and Naughty Nannies, I was wrong.  I swore to myself that I would never by a blogger book.  I’m “literary!”  I have things like “self-respect” and “taste,” not to mention “standards,” and a “deep” “hatred” of “ironic” “use” of “quotation marks.” 
Then along came TheBunnyBlog.  Her most recent four part piece [...]

DDT Rawks!

Yes, I’m totally serious.  I was so pleased to hear that WHO has  stepped away from out of touch environmentalists and embraced a policy that has the potential to save a lot of lives.  DDT used in huge amounts for agricultural purposes=bad.  DDT used in minute amounts to make homes inhospitable to the anopheles mosquito=very, [...]

Careful what you wish for

Guess what happens when a town cracks down on illegal immigration?
I’m no economist, but even I could have predicted this.

Bye Bye!

John McLaughlin and his group rock me so hard.  I have such an inappropriate old curmudgeon crush on him.  Don’t tell anyone, but I was actually excited that Tony was back tonight.  I kind of think Eleanor is a shrew, even though I agree with much of what she has to say.  I secretly refer to her as ”Eleanor Clit.”  John TOTALLY has [...]

Chimanimani

First quarter school break was a landmark I had been looking forward to since my first crazy days at my Peace Corps assignment in Zimbabwe.  Training had been 2.5 months of frolicking with nubile and adventurous American peers, interspersed with a freak episode of hypothermia and a few days laid up with either dengue fever [...]

Back in green

This isn’t done, but it’s as good a piece as I have in development for the anniversary of Sept. 11th.  

or flight?

It’s as if I have no other choice.  Sometimes, I get the urge to just pack up my life and go somewhere else.  Right now, it’s somewhere tropical.  Guatemala, perhaps.  I could send my partner to a total immersion school, share a home-stay with him, and speak nothing but Spanish to him for 6 weeks.  [...]