Tequila blues

As if the rising price of gas isn’t bad enough, the price of tequila may be going up, too. Mexican land which once grew agave is being converted to corn production to feed the hunger for ethanol in the US, leading to a tequila shortage which may drive up prices. From MSNBC: Production of agave, [...]

Day 9

I’ve made it a week plus. The cravings have mostly gone away, as well as the physical withdrawal symptoms, but the one thing that hasn’t disappeared is the newly arrived sans-nicotine anxiety. I’m starting each day with a major anxiety attack that runs until mid afternoon, and it’s wearing me down. I know that all [...]

I’m quitting

Not blogging. Smoking, although it may look like the two are one and the same for awhile. It’s taking all my energy to Not Smoke, so blogging will continue to be light until I get my brain back. Hopefully the fog will clear up soon. It’s day 5 ….

Friday pet-blogging

Storm, up close and personal.

Sister Hazel – All For You

Your horoscope for the day is accountablity

Want to know how your legislator voted on a particular bill? There’s a resource from the Washington Post to give you the information. By state, select the senator or representative of your choice to see a complete listing of her/his votes bill by bill, as well as the official position of each party. You can [...]

“You’re no good at politics”

That’s what 17-year-old my son told me the other day. The context was an hours long discussion of the presidential candidates and the issues up for grabs in the next election. Having, in my humble opinion, bought into the internet hype, he was trying to convince me that as a liberal I should be supporting [...]

Viva Las Vegas?

What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas. Sometimes it hits Fark, then the whole world knows about it. At a Nevada state chiropractic board meeting, Dr. Donald Miner, a governor’s appointee, unleashed the slur of all slurs, “one of the most offensive terms a man can direct at a woman”, according to LasVegasNOW, [...]

Sorry, letting you walk is “medically unecessary.”

From the Seattle Times: California lawmakers are questioning whether an auditing company in which San Francisco investor Richard Blum, the husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, has a major financial stake is rejecting Medicare claims at California rehabilitation hospitals to reap millions of dollars in profits at the expense of patient care. The company, PRG-Schultz International, [...]

In a class of their own

Turner Classic Movies is remembering Katherine Hepburn, who died in June 2003 at 96, by doing a film retrospective of her work. Too bad it’s occasion for a little bigotry as well. From CNN: Robert Osborne, the channel’s host, believes her appeal came from “her class and her oddity and her uniqueness. She was a [...]

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