Archive for June, 2003
right to privacy
Massachusetts Democratic Senator and presidential candidate John Kerry recently told reporters he would fight the confirmation of any candidate for the U.S. Supreme Court who would push an extreme (conservative) political agenda. I found Kerry’s quote, according to the AP, quite interesting:
"I am prepared to filibuster, if necessary, any Supreme Court nominee who would turn [...]
a question for Gov. Dean, M.D.
Before I’m reported AWOL and delinked from the blogosphere, I thought I had better check in briefly. In 3+ years I don’t think I’ve ever gone 10 days without an update. I’m still here. Life’s busy, work’s busy. We ripped out the last two shrubs from our front lawn and planted about 100 new flowers [...]
baseball, apple pie, Chevy and Octodogs?
Marlin and I can’t stop giggling about Octodogs, the fun and safer way to eat hot dogs. Instead of eating a boring old hot dog, push your hot dog into the frankfurter converter, pop it out, and cook it up. You’re left with an octopus-shaped hot dog, complete with eyes. I’m not kidding.
The other thing [...]
choo choo splat
Apparently the suicidal element north of Boston has determined pills, guns, and razor blades are not as effective as trains. Yesterday’s apparent suicide on my commuter rail line (scroll to second news brief) was the third death this year. And that’s just on this rail line. There are a dozen or so others in the [...]
spelunking
Sometimes I think if it weren’t for Max, Keith, JGo, and a few other bloggers I read regularly who write about popular music, I would be some old dood stuck in the 80s with my Blondie and Billy Joel (not that there’s anything wrong with that).
But occasionally you can’t ignore the buzz when it’s about [...]
june bloom
I’ve got a new summer arrangement at work where I’m going to work from home one day each week. I need a day without commuting. I can use that extra 3 hours to do things like laundry and mowing the yard. I worked from home Wednesday so we could schedule two contractors to visit and [...]