I have had an idea, which may or may not address a myriad of problems affecting these United States...
We should begin letting all natural-born Americans be citizens. But only at age
18 can they become full citizens, with all the rights and privileges that comes with such citizenship.
However, for that to happen a person must be made to prove beyond any reasonable doubt that he or she is up to handling the responsibilities that comes with...
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Lovecraft the prophet
"That cult would never die till the stars came right again, and the secret priests would take great Cthulhu from His tomb to revive His subjects and resume His rule of earth. The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Mormon bishop with Samurai sword rescues woman from stalker, takes punk's ChapStick for DNA and screams "YOU ARE SO DONE!"
Read. Just read. From the Associated Press courtesy of TheBlaze.com...
Samurai Sword-Wielding Mormon Bishop Saves Woman From Attacker: ‘You Are So Done’
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Samurai
sword-wielding Mormon bishop helped a neighbor woman escape a Tuesday
morning attack by a man who had been stalking her.
Hendrix and his weapon of choice (Photo Credit:...
Strange and bizarre Russian ads from a century ago
It's stuff like this that reminds me of something: we're not all that different from people a century ago. Far longer than that even. We laugh at this sort of thing today, but a hundred years from now our great-grandchildren will be looking at our ads for vacuum cleaners and light beer and wonder: "What the hell were they thinking??"
I don't think geography...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Thoughts about public prayer at the Rockingham County Board of Education
At last night's monthly work meeting of the Rockingham County Board of Education, the proposal was put forth that the board should begin each session with prayer. It's been a longstanding custom to have a moment of silence. If the board approves of it at the May 13th meeting, that would be replaced with a public prayer before an official function of government.
Here's the story from today's News & Record...
Board members spent nearly...
This week's Tammy Tuesday is LIVE! IN COLOR!
It's the first ever video for Tammy Tuesday! A coupl'a weeks ago my mini dachshund Tammy wound up at my cousin's house nearby for a play date with her sister and litter-mate Sassy.
So here are two miniature dachshunds running around and playing with an adorable little girl on a spring day. If this blog had any more sweetness in one post, I'd have to offer free insulin! By the way, Tammy is the dachshie with the red collar...
If...
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Love and monsters done right: "Hide" a rollickin' good DOCTOR WHO horror story
I think the overall problem with this half-season of Doctor Who has been how every story thus far has been a high-stakes mega-tale. "The Bells of Saint John" had the whole heapin' world threatened by Wi-Fi and last week's "Cold War" set Earth poised on the brink of nuclear annihilation. Only "The Rings of Akhaten" really worked: mostly by being set on a distant...
Kristen dances a storm at Showcase Spring 2013!
Last week was the semi-annual Arthur Murray Showcase ballroom dance spectacular at the Hotel Roanoke, put on by the Arthur Murray Studio in Roanoke, Virginia. This was the fourth one I've been at to cheer on my girlfriend Kristen Bradford. And once again she was a thrill and a beauty to behold! Her routines garnered a wazoo of applause from the audience and some of them...
Friday, April 19, 2013
Why the Boy Scouts can NEVER be compatible with homosexuality
The Boy Scouts of America has been a part of my life since I was eight years old, in the fall of 1982. That was more than thirty years ago.
I started in the Cub Scouts. I earned my Bobcat, Wolf and Bear ranks. In fifth grade I graduated to the Webelos Scouts and earned the Arrow of Light. A few months later I became a full-fledged Boy Scout. ...
The title of this season's finale of DOCTOR WHO is...
That has to be the most ominous title of a Doctor Who story in the entire history of the franchise. My spine shivered when I read that this morning.
"The Name of the Doctor"...
The question. The first question. The oldest question of all. The question that must never be answered. Hidden in plain sight. The question he has been running from all his life...
"Doctor...
Don't want to marry your sister? There's an app for that!
Incest is a terrible thing. But when you're one person among a population of 300 thousand, your odds of contributing to genetic bottleneck go substantially up. That's the problem in Iceland, where just about everyone is related to everyone else and some downright... creepy... marital relations have inadvertently come about.
(I'm assuming those were inadvertent...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Star Wars movies EVERY year beginning in 2015
Whoa!! Looks like "Weird Al" Yankovic was a prophet when he wrote his song "Yoda" those many years ago...
"But I know that I'll be coming back some dayI'll be playing this part 'till I'm old and grayThe long-term contract I had to signSays I'll be making these movies till the end of timeOh with my Yoda Yo-yo-yo-yo Yoda Yo-yo-yo-yo Yoda"
It was officially suggested...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
MAN OF STEEL trailer, and the last one for STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS
I've a theory: Benedict Cumberbatch is playing Khan Noonien Singh. In the post-Kelvin altered timeline the Botany Bay was found years earlier than it was in the original Star Trek series, and Khan wound up working for Starfleet's black ops. Then years later he comes back for revenge for something or 'nother and that's when he and Kirk will tangle for the "first" time.But if he's an entirely new character, I'm down for that too. Either way from...
Tammy Tuesday this week is love at first sight!
Last week my mini dachshund Tammy became one year old! I don't care what her age is: she'll forever be my baby. I'm always calling her "Tammy the pup" (okay, along with other nicknames like "Tammy the Troublemaker", "Tammy the Terror", "Tammy the Tripper" and too many others to count...)
But this week marks the one-year anniversary of the first time she and I...
Richard LeParmentier - Admiral Motti in the first Star Wars movie - has passed away
Star Wars fans worldwide are saddened today to learn that Richard LeParmentier has passed away at the age of 66.
LeParmentier was an American residing in Great Britain, and making quite a career for himself as a television and film actor. And then the fickle finger of the Force (along with a casting director and George Lucas) chose him to portray Admiral Motti in what...
Les Misérables: Man arrested trading McDonald's meal for sex
From KOB.com comes this weird story of how the hard economy has hit even the prostitution trade...
Police: New Mexico man traded McDonalds for sex
This happy meal didn’t end with a treat.
A New Mexico man was arrested for allegedly trading a sex with a woman for a meal at McDonalds.
Albuquerque police found Donald Jones, 58, at Bullhead Park with a woman he picked up...
