Those White Boys

Straight hair, fair skin, and a penis grant a special license -- as long as the candidate has networked properly.

San Diego Wild Animal Park 6

Saddam Trial Moved to Modesto

Think the world has become too strange to be true?

A Tabby Coated Watermelon

Fiona looks like a white and tabby striped watermelon with muscular legs, a cat head, and sixteen needles in her white stocking feet.

Sleeping Well and Showing Myself

For the first time in months, I slept straight through the night.

San Diego Wild Animal Park 5

The Little Foxes of the Mind

As I roll along, describing a scene from my life, I pull the pen away from the sheet of paper and starting talking to an unseen audience.

David Low

It's all too easy to second guess dead people.

San Diego Wild Animal Park 4

Undoing the Flesh Curl

The headaches, the loss of sleep, the anxiety I felt both before and after the meetings, the feeling that I have had a friendly circle taken from me -- these things hurt because I am a human being.

San Diego Wild Animal Park 3

Advice for Dr. Dean and Others Victims of the Press

The trick is to keep our heads while the pundits are losing theirs. Then we will have a movement, my friends.

Smart Selection of Presidential Candidates?

I wonder what it would be like if we voted blind like this in the primaries?

Debunking the "Debunking"

The Libertines are in high form, trying to rewrite the language so that George W. Bush will not be labeled a coward or a chicken hawk.

San Diego Wild Animal Park 2

Taking it Personally? No, Just Annoyed

Something's become clear to me. The difference between taking things personally and being annoyed.

Dumpsters & Gorillas in the Silence

I am coming to treasure the moment when the air cleaner shuts off at noon.

Value and Respect

One observed: "They value you, but they don't respect you.

The Grand Canyon Dilemna

Do you go after your hat or find a new one?

Meat the Press

The friend who passed this on to me said that she thought it was a parody at first.

Fallbrook Exit

We left the Welk Resort before nine. I pulled off Interstate 15 at Fallbrook so I could travel to Oceanside on State Route 76.

Serving Bravely

A feline Border Patrol agent challenges a suspected terrier on our Northern Frontier.

PSAS

Jean Lund had a problem: As a sufferer of Persistant Sexual Arousal Syndrome (PSAS), she experienced orgasms hundreds of times each day.

Ram Tough and other Scenes

Was he bashing down the thorns so that they wouldn't stick him when he ate the pad or did he soften the skin so he could strip it off with his teeth and tongue?

Howard and Judy and Laura

If you want a particular woman in the White House, you should support her for president.

Escondido

Escondido is a sad town of white houses near its central city.

The Bible in Fifty Words
Don't have the time or patience to get through the whole Bible? Here's a shorter version. A friend sent me...

Hao Hao Xin Nian
src="http://www.notfrisco2.com/webzine/Joel/archives/squares/square08 1.gif" width="50" height="50" border="0" align="left" />Is it because of some biochemical imbalance that Republicans think everything out of...

Weekend Sojourn

Lynn and I are off to the Lawrence Welk Resort in Escondido where my aunt has given us permission to use her timeshare.

Mandible Computer Tomography

A short tech who wore a loose Hawaiian shirt escorted me into the room where they kept the magic donut.

Winter Closure Continues at Whiting Ranch

Yellow police tape and red signs remain looped around the area following this month's earlier mountain lion attack. I suspect that bikers are ignoring the signs.

Money 3

The shelves were both empty and full. A mustiness that spoke of dead books written in dead languages, cereal that had been on the shelf too long, and the garage corners piled with old clothes pushed into my nostrils.

An Early Foehn

The wind howls and the trees shake their fists at it while it passes.

The Klansman Gravity Problem

They can type, they can write a snazzy opening paragraph, they can look good for the camera, but God help us: they can't think!

The Ultimate Roach-Proofing

We have pulled out the castration knife and are prepared to turn each and every one of you piglets into a hog.

The First Liberals

This bizarre history helps to explain the strange events of the Twentieth and early Twenty First centuries.

The Sound and the Sense

When the machine shut down at noon, the noises of the world opened to my ears like a book to my eyes.

Dream
I found myself dreaming that I either owned or played a key part in an organization which trapped and enslaved...

Entrapment Rule

Ops should avoid imposing rules that don't serve for anything other than a means to bully people.

Instant Squares
 This idea is a direct steal from MEG of Mandarin Designs who is a terrific source for spiffing up your...

Martin Luther King Day 2004

Was that firecracker meant to commemorate James Earl Ray?

Is Spreading Love and Tolerance Asking for It?

Its purpose is to inculcate despair so that we won't work for love and tolerance, so that we will join the ranks of revolutionary movements and extremist nation states

Writing in a Circle

First meeting of a new group of writers held today.

Iowa Caucus 1992

Needless to say that Tom Harkin did not win the nomination. Nor did my favorite of the time, Paul Tsongas. The third place loser became our president.

Apologize to a Soldier

[Meridell] I think when people come back from war, instead of a parade we should apologize to them. Tell them we are sorry we screwed up so badly that they had to go.

Just What Are They Measuring Here?
Think Colin is given to exagerration?...

Big Mouth Bob Meets Killer Dana

This being Orange County politics, the Weekly treats the race as pretty much finished by the time the March California Primary decides who will be the Republican candidate.

Uncivil Service

This is plain rude and an affront to the American people to whom the government is accountable

Self Quoting
It's great to be right. I love being right. Which is why when someone shows me to be in error,...

A Different Kind of Angry White Guy

I feel frustrated these days by the news.

Boys and Fire

Boys tease fire like they tease wild animals.

Hating Judy Dean
Check out this post by Kris: Go ahead and Google Judith Steinberg Dean--you'll see many, many more examples of the...

Overrun in Atlanta

Doubtless, media pinionists will be all over the crowd for disturbing this "solemn ceremony".

Goodbye Carol

I endorsed her because she spoke my mind. I felt it was time to put my talk of Affirmative Action to work.

California Citrus SHP 3

Portrait of a New Rager at B&N

I looked at the loudmouth's hands. Smooth white fingers. No ring. Not surprising.

75,000,000 Canteloupes Shipped In Six Weeks

I suppose

you had better come here

Viola.

2500th Comment
Lynn made the 2500th comment to the site since I switched to Movable Type. I don't think she was cheating....

Morlocks and Eloi

The Morlock's underground exists today, in the full light of the sun.

Enterprise

I've only seen part of one episode of this series,

California Citrus SHP 2

Not A Single Reference to Hitler
The winner of the MoveOn ad contest is: Child's Pay! It happens to be my personal favorite of the final...

Cheneygate?

I think the Watergate legacy is leaning hard on American reporters. A scandal of this proportion outstrips what Nixon and Clinton did, combined.

Skiing Equipment Roach
At least that's the name which the roach from this site gave her/himself, but the folks who write from "myway.com"...

The Yellow and the Green

Now is the time when the canyon bottoms turn bright orange and lemon and the hills assume a ripening lime.

California Citrus SHP 1

Howard Dean's Free Speech Zone is Everywhere

Ask not about Bush's repression of free speech and dissent in his presence, but make a big issue when Howard Dean speaks up for himself and for his supporters.

My Mountain Lion

Was this my lion, the lion that I frightened off last October?

The Perils of Ideology

Our nation is dying: what are a People to do when they have lost control of their government?

More New Terms for the "Debate"

My little dictionary of terms for today's changing political climate continues to grow as friends tell me their labels for particular types

Felis concolor at Whiting Ranch Wilderness 3

We can and will learn from this. My sincere condolences to the family of the victim, to the woman who was mauled, and the two survivors of the incidents.

Fitness Roach
68.173.7.113 is a fitness roach. Messages will seem to address the subject in an oblique fashion by quoting platitudes. The...

Felis Concolor at Whiting Ranch Wilderness 2

Think of it: a biker never stops to look. He is always on the move, always -- in the eyes of the lion -- fleeing. It's like dragging a piece of red yarn in front of your cat. It's going to induce it to pounce.

Argument and Assassination

The folly of arguing with extremists is similar to the folly of assassinating George W. Bush.

Wimp-O-Matic Democrats

It's time to get angry, folks.

Black Helicopters

The grasshopper march passes.

The Ark

Poor Job. He bit the dust first.

Baby Flesh

The Weekly's selling baby flesh.

Osama Confesses
See it here!...

Twelve Cheeses for Twelfth Night

On this day, those who still have their lights up (e.g. us) exhaust ourselves singing choruses of the full version of the Twelve Days of Christmas.

Mad Cows
Here are the lyrics for a couple of cow-related songs: I am Cow Cows with guns...

A Couple of Quizzes
The dying on a mountain part is a little out of my league and I don't do pot. What Famous...

Adolf, Dubya, and Me

if notified of such a funeral in Orange County, California and physically capable of doing so, I will attend, wearing only my dark suit and making no political comment at the scene.

The Big RNC Lie about Moveon

Trust in other adults to make up their own minds based on the truth

Tanked

State of the Disunion

Tell pResident Bush the real State of the Union.

Fox Defames MoveOn

The wolf always says that the deer is a carnivore.

Self Portrait
Astoundingly babboonish, isn't it? You can try this for yourself at Mr. Picassohead. I'd love to see the results....

Rah rah! Cis-Boom-Baa!*

The story of a Muslim football league in Irvine inspired me to rethink a few team names.

Fog of War

The fog of war can take many forms: propaganda, disinformation, lack of witnesses. Or maybe the lack of American Middle East experts who can understand Arabic

Scalped

Cat claws fascinate me.

My Sky Marshal is Tougher than Yours

What will happen when their sky marshals open fire on our sky marshals or vice versa?

Yet Another Photo from the Front!

Hand to hand combat!

Stu Savory Survives a Year
I've been a little behind on my reading of other blogs, but Stu Savory has hit a milestone: one year...

Statistics
Entries: 2105 Comments: 2445...

Two New Terms for the "Debate"

Vichy Democrats: Refers to Democrats like Christopher Lieberman, John Kerry, John Edwards, Richard Gephardt, etc. who believe that the surest way to beat Bush is to act almost exactly like him.

More Latin for George W. Bush's America

quid leges sine moribus vanae proficiunt -- what good are laws when there are no morals?

Towards A Genuine Culture

When we find ourselves asking "If I had it to do over again" questions and come up with the answer that we should have grabbed for more of the toys and sigals, it does not seem to me that we have thought through our existence very well at all.

First in Flight Controlled Glider Flight
An amazing fact that most Californians don't know: the first controlled glider flight in history took place at Otay Mesa...

Happy New Year 2004
        We have a beautiful timeAs long as time is time at all.                - Czelaw Milosz Now that we have arrived in...