http://texasscribbler.com/wp Thus and sundry from a retired, at-home dad Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:36:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The days before Chrysler went on the dole. I liked those knit dresses, too. Via Dustbury. http://texasscribbler.com/wp/2010/03/18/back-in-the-olden-days/ Amazes me how the legacy media can get away with, repeatedly, calling Obamacare "health care reform," or "health care overhaul," when it is really about a government takeover. Not as pleasant sounding, I suppose. Like "free" bread: "If you relied upon the government for your bread, you would accept what ... http://texasscribbler.com/wp/2010/03/17/government-medicine-or-government-bread/ Hal Clement's classic hard SF novellas here about alien contact, Mission of Gravity and Star Light, with a couple of connected short stories thrown in, make for wonderful reading, and some free education in elementary physics and chemistry. MG hardly suffers from being so old that the ... http://texasscribbler.com/wp/2010/03/16/heavy-planet/ Internet scoops legacy media again: Balloon boy seems to have come down to earth, and was well behind in the payments for the Prius he was driving. Via No Left Turns. http://texasscribbler.com/wp/2010/03/15/runaway-toyota-owners-possible-motive/ http://texasscribbler.com/wp/2010/03/15/portrait-of-the-american-and-israeli-soldier/ It's the Eighth Annual International Eat A Tasty Animal for PETA Day. Hamburger, I expect, will be on the menu at the rancho where we seldom miss an opportunity to mock a pretentious person or organization. Especially an obnoxious one like PETA, which so richly deserves all the ridicule it ... http://texasscribbler.com/wp/2010/03/15/ieatapeta/ When I was young, the answer was unambiguously yes. And, indeed, in terms of future employment, as recorded here, with one you have been much more likely to be employed and remain so since 1992. Leaving aside how long it took you to recoup the money spent on getting one ... http://texasscribbler.com/wp/2010/03/14/do-you-really-need-a-college-degree/ We go back on Roosevelt Time (my Corsicana grandfather's term for Daylight Savings Time) on Sunday, an artifact of World War II that's never been rescinded, proving that what the bureaucracy giveth it hardly ever taketh away. And, lo and behold, DST might even be bad for your health, as it ... http://texasscribbler.com/wp/2010/03/12/roosevelt-time-2/ Do us all a favor, Joey. Leave Jerusalem to the adults. Go back to the circus where you belong. Or we'll find a terrorist group that wants to take over east D.C. that you can set up talks with, while admonishing the D.C. government not to allow any development there ... http://texasscribbler.com/wp/2010/03/12/put-a-sock-in-it-joey/ Let's see, I plan to make stuffed salmon tonight for me, Mrs. Charm and her mother, who is descending from Fort Worth this afternoon to stay with Mr. Boy for the weekend. This being Thursday, he gets his favorite macaroni and cheese. For grandma I still have to change the ... http://texasscribbler.com/wp/2010/03/11/ready-for-comfort/