Rational thought has gone to the dogs!
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A couple days ago, I was listening to some cable news show, I think it might have been MSNBC, ranting on about Dr. Laura’s use of the n-word. The content of the show is not important. What is important is that we have reduced our discourse of fairly substation discussions of our culture into “baby-babble” [...]
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I found myself sitting across the desk from my banker one day last week. Apparently, PNC had screwed up a bunch of my accounts as they migrated from National City and it was serious enough that the phone support people couldn’t help. They said I had to trudge into the local branch. Ok, fine. I [...]
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I was watching The Rachel Maddow Show tonight and the segment about Blago came on. I could not believe what I was seeing! The horror, the carnage of typography on my screen. Here is what was shown: Notice that they used a single quote when it should have been an apostrophe to indicate a contraction [...]
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Before it leaks all over the news, Barack Obama offered me the job of official White House dog a couple years back. I declined, so Bo is now doing it. And I did not serve as a bomb-sniffing dog in any foreign wars, though I may have mentioned it to a cute poodle from time [...]
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During the week of the start of Desert Storm, I was attending a week-long “Train the Trainer” workshop in Oldtown, Alexandria just down the road from Washington DC. There was a small sub group of us that sorta bonded together a bit and we spent the few evenings we had eating dinner together, talking. I [...]
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I got my hair cut last week and as I was getting up from the chair, Jerry asked if six weeks out would be good. “God willing,” I said and he turned to me and asked, “Why do you always say that?” “Because one of these times, we will make an appointment and I will [...]
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I had a wild, random thought as I was walking Charlie and Sallie this afternoon. What if I ran a sentence in English through Google Language and got another sentence in another language. Then, I ran that result back again and had it translate back into English. Would the result be the exact same? So, [...]
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The year is 1837 and a farmer was all giddy about the new John Deere steel plough he just bought. It was a lot lighter than his old piece of crap iron plough. Since his back was starting to hurt as he was getting older, he was happy that the lightweight steel plough would take [...]
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Take a good look at the photo above. What do you see? Most of us see a dandelion, a vile weed that should be ripped up, poisoned and killed, stomped out and cursed at. And I did too until just the other day when it occurred to me that I have been looking at dandelions [...]
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I love Cesar Millan*, but he has made my life hell, along with Emeril LaGasse, Mike Holmes, and Alton Brown. But those other guys are a completely different — though not unrelated — post. Maybe later. You see, Cesar has made almost everyone else in the pound an expert on dog behavior with an endless [...]
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If you are going to Austin for SXSW next week, help us prove that SXSW is going to the dogs. It is real simple. 1. Take a photo of a dog you see at SXSW. 2. Tweet out with your photo using your favorite photo service, TwitPic, TweetPhoto, Yfrog, whatever. Enter as many photos as [...]
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I will die. It is a fact that I can’t overlook, regardless of how much work I put into denying it, putting it off or otherwise just trying to ignore it. So, faced with the fact that I will not be escaping death, I have done the following: – I have written my last blog [...]
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Our last wrestling session for the 2009-2010 Winter break at Englewood Hills. The kids are back in school on Monday, so it’s back to the sand lot for us until Spring Break.
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I wish I had a video camera, but I only had an iPhone. Englewood Hills left their tether balls attached to the poles over Winter break* and I swung one as I was walking by. Charlie jumped to grab it and a game ensued. So, as fast as I could focus and snap, here you [...]
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Saying a thousand words with one photo and the only ones I really want heard are, “Are we going for that walk now? Please?”
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