I'm the village idiot, I don't have anything to do with this pathetic little opera, I just felt like passing through!
I’m one of the odd balls that loves bagpipes. Specifically, pipe & drum corps and the military aspect of the bagpipe. The 58th Edinburgh Tattoo is about to get underway. It is my dream to one day attend the Tattoo in person though it sounds like getting tickets can be a challenge. The dancers and … Read more
The study interviewed 444 people and came up with 237 ‘unique’ reasons to have sex. Then 1500 and some odd college students were surveyed to find out how those 237 reasons ranked. Statistically, there are a couple of problems here. 444 people provided 237 unique reasons and the surveyors thought they had a comprehensive list. … Read more
KUWAIT CITY, Aug. 1 — U.S. commanders in Kuwait said Wednesday that they have enormous capability to handle the tens of thousands of troops and their equipment that would stream out of Iraq during a U.S. withdrawal. I’m not sure I believe the “enormous capability” part. At least not in the inference offered here. I … Read more
When I was a kid I used to like to put numbers into the calculator – they had just been invented – and see what words I could make. Pretty quickly I discovered that 7734 spelled hell when you turned the calculator upside down. But hell is a bad word so I figured out that … Read more
The upshot of the article is that the surge is working. That we are making a difference in and around Baghdad and the worst areas of Iraq. I wonder if anyone in Congress will read this article? The US military has fought long and hard to win this while so many people at home have … Read more
“For all the attention on the love-hate relationship between Apple and Microsoft, there’s another software superpower with which Apple is increasingly butting heads, Adobe.” So, the upshot of the article is that AppleTV and iPhone are in a weaker position because they don’t support Flash. Yet, YouTube is converting it’s library of video to h.264 … Read more
I used to smoke cigarettes. At one point in my life I smoked about 3 to 4 packs a day. Fortunately for me, I didn’t smoke that much for very long. For most of the time that I smoked, it was about a pack a day. I would occasionally run into to people who claimed … Read more
Another long, hard road for the American military. However, it seems that we have to revisit this particular issue every time there’s a war. The stories of society’s miserable handling of the war wounded and disabled date back to the Napoleonic wars and before. The issue is made worse during unpopular wars when there are … Read more
“Treat your women well and be kind to them for they are your partners and committed helpers.” From the last sermon of Prophet Mohammed We keep hearing that Islam is the religion of peace. And then we keep hearing stories like this. Stories about people getting killed because they have converted to some other religion … Read more
First, congratulations to the Iraqis. There are numerous stories coming out about how this is uniting Iraq, supposedly where politics could not. Maybe. I think it is significant to see the Iraqis on the international sports scene. I think it is important. It is one more step on the path to becoming a nation taken … Read more