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We’re really rolling now, right?! This show just keeps getting better and better. It’s almost as if last season didn’t exist. The pacing is fantastic. The writing is sharper, crisper, darker, and epically more interesting. The best compliment we can give the show at this point is we don’t want the episodes to end. Continue reading
Mitt Romney lost. November 6th saw the end of the Romney campaign, and the total collapse of the entire Romneyverse. The multiverse imploded–it was Crisis on Infinite Romneys. Blood ran red in the corridors of Fox News, and the Romney campaign waved its arms, made honking noises, and collapsed with a clang like the giant robot in Iron Giant. Continue reading
Just three days after president Obama’s historic re-election news hit the airwaves of General David Petraeus’ illicit affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell. In the days that followed not only was there talk of FBI involvement, racy emails, and harassment, but a second woman has been uncovered as yet another potential love interest for the high-ranking officer whom allegedly set off a maelstrom of potential jealousy on the part of Broadwell, and led to the uncovering of the affair and Petraeus’ subsequent resignation from his post as CIA director amid shame and innuendo. Continue reading
We have arrived! At 12,000 feet, Karakul Lake literally takes your breath away. After a surprisingly delicious meal in a concrete cantina next to the lake, we decide to take an afternoon stroll.
Though the lake is only three miles in circumference, my severe altitude sickness– pounding headache, shortness of breath, inability to concentrate– meant the walk took more than two hours. Miraculously, I was still able to take some decent photos. And to this day, eight years later, I remember the entire experience as if it were yesterday. Continue reading
Here we go again! Continue reading
I got to thinking the other day about my own family’s military service. There’s quite a lot of it.
Then yesterday I read about Holly Petraeus’ long-time service to soldier’s families, and that she can trace military service in her own family back to the Revolution.
My brother, sister and a sister-in-law all joined the Canadian Armed Forces soon after finishing high school, although only briefly, as it turned, out for all three. Continue reading
We are flush with vegetables and gourds from our winter CSA. And one of my favorite things in the world was prevalent in our last batch – tomatillos. So, I whipped us up a batch of tomatillo salsa, and that was dinner one night with nachos. Continue reading
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Hi, there! It’s Saturday night, and instead of being out and about and being debauched, you’re at home watching Saturday Night Live and hoping against hope that it will be funny again. Actually, last week’s installment with Louis C.K. was pretty funny. However, this week the host is Anne Hathaway. And the “musical” guest is Rihanna, who is not fit to carry Beyoncé’s weave. And since the election is over (thank the lords of Kobol!), the cold open is likely to be the last moderately interesting skit of the year. So, if you’re home and watching SNL, join us in the comments and let’s be funnier than the show! Continue reading