On Wednesday, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) said that the focus of the Obama administration during President Obama’s second term will be the annihilation of the Republican Party.
That’s a pretty hefty claim, so I decided to look at what the President actually said and see how it measures up to Speaker Boehner’s claim. Continue reading
My husband and I have been married for almost 9 years and we have never gone on a proper honeymoon. We’ve been lucky that we have gone on a few snow vacations out West, and we go visit my family in Panama every few years, but we decided to start putting away some money so we can go on a mini vacation/honeymoon. The problem is that there are too many options: do we go to an all-inclusive in the Caribbean where we can lay on the beach for a few days and order drinks that come with mini-umbrellas? Do we go somewhere fun in the US we’ve never been to before, like Chicago? Do we go back to New York, Key West, or San Francisco? Continue reading
Growing up in the McBoy household there were a lot of rules, most of which disappeared when I turned 15. Some were good and made sense to a child others still stick in my craw.
The two rules that still bother me the most involve television. One was that TVs were not allowed in the bedroom. Til the day my father died, he refused to have one anywhere outside of the living room. It’s so ingrained in me that as an adult I have never had a television anywhere but in the living area of any of the houses or apartments I have lived in. Continue reading
What is there to say about the language of diplomacy (oh, wait?), commerce (wrong again) or quasi-love? Not much. Instead, let’s listen to some French songs. Continue reading
Thufferin thucatash, ith Thursday. Continue reading
St. Tropez, the tanning brand that apparently also doubles as an enchanted witch’s mirror, has released a study that claims every Wednesday afternoon women look their worst due to all the carousing and boozing they’ve done over the weekend. Nice that they can pinpoint it to the exact minute, eh? Continue reading
If you had asked me 10 years ago how my life would be different today, I certainly wouldn’t have said that it would involve me living in Arizona of all places. Continue reading
I bet you pretty much stumble through life practically shitting your Pampers about all the things that worry you. Oooh, what if i catch the flu? What if I get molested by a gang of circus clowns? What if Obama takes over the government, repeals the Second Amendment and then won’t let my psycho teenage son murder everyone with my hunting rifle?
Well your fears are dumb, you basic bitch! Why? Because every year the website Edge.org brings together the 150 Smartest People in the World to answer a single question. This year’s question was: What SHOULD We Be Worried About? (Click here to view the actual responses.)
This is part two in a two part series exploring the Challenger disaster. You can find part one here.
With the January 27th launch officially scrubbed and the overnight forecast calling for even more intense cold, the NASA administrators and Morton Thiokol engineers responsible for the Challenger mission faced an increasingly difficult situation. With the launch already rescheduled due to the weather, the shuttle would sit on the launch pad overnight, further chilling the MT built boosters well below the 40°F for which they were launch-certified. Continue reading
Clump. Jump. Hump. Stump. Continue reading