Category Archives: Scribbles

Back to school

Posted on August 26, 2012 | Comments Off on Back to school

G-d’s mercy returns. Mr. B. goes back to middle school tomorrow morning. Now all I have to do is monitor his zeros on the local gradespeed dealie the school system provides. And bat any incoming teacher emails back with an appropriate answer.

The zeros he gets when he doesn’t do the work. Poor grades I can handle. As long as he tries. And his grades rarely are poor, even in math, which he hates but does well in when he does the work. Very well, generally. Had a low A average overall last year, afterall.

But, ah, back to school. Sweet. The peace of the morning returns and the mid-day and the early afternoon. This is parenting the way I like it. Part time. It’s only fair. I pay taxes. Let the schools do their part.

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Waiting for the reviews

Posted on August 25, 2012 | Comments Off on Waiting for the reviews

Finishing a novel and then waiting for the reviews, according to Keith Ridgeway, isn’t fun.

“It’s a little like crawling from a car crash to be greeted by a panel of strangers holding up score cards.”

Ain’t it the truth. So far I’ve been lucky, but with more than a hundred copies taken when the novel was on Amazon’s free promotion list, there’s bound to be some contrary ones out there just waiting to hold up their score cards. Stands to reason.

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I’m with Lance

Posted on August 24, 2012 | Comments Off on I’m with Lance

Whatever the anti-doping agency does to Lance Armstrong today, which apparently will be to strip him of his seven Tour De France titles for alleged use of steroids, nobody will be fooled. He won them. That’s obvious.

And while I have no more idea than anyone else whether the charges against him are true, I respect his refusal to play along with an agency that seems not to be governed by normal American rules of judicial procedure.*

Like most people in Austin and elsewhere who revere him, I’m with Lance.

* “USADA’s conduct raises serious questions about whether its real interest in charging Armstrong is to combat doping, or if it is acting according to less noble motives,” such as politics or publicity, U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks wrote.

UPDATE:  On Oct. 18, we learn that Nike, Trek and other big name commercial outfits have dropped their contracts with Lance. They say they’re convinced by the quasi-fed agency’s “proof,” though it’s more likely they don’t want to buck the feds.

I’ll still take Lance’s continued denial of using steroids and, anyhow, I don’t care if athletes use steroids and I don’t see how it’s any business of the government, which has far too much involvement in our lives as it is.

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Uh oh

Posted on August 23, 2012 | Comments Off on Uh oh

The American Population Bust: U.S. birth rate has fallen below replacement. Indeed, it is below France’s total fertility rate.

Talking about Europe’s demographic disaster in 2008, Romney said: it is “the inevitable product of weakened faith in the creator, failed families, disrespect for the sanctity of human life and eroded morality.”

We are toast.

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The Greens: As stupid as you know they are

Posted on August 22, 2012 | Comments Off on The Greens: As stupid as you know they are

I get the little glances, the upturned noses of some of the people in line behind me at the grocery with their cloth shopping bags as I ask the clerk for plastic ones for me.

The E. coli and other bacteria these Greens may carry home and suffer from the next time they use their dirty cloth grocery bag is just not for me. I throw out my plastic bags with the residue of raw vegetables and/or meat before the offending items are washed.

But, if the cloth baggers (to coin a phrase) prize their perceived moral superiority above common sense, I suppose illness is a small price to pay.

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What hath Obozo wrought?

Posted on August 20, 2012 | Comments Off on What hath Obozo wrought?

Holy Moly. What hath Obozo and his increasingly nasty campaign wrought?

The Boston Globe (owned by the NYTimes) is taking note of the political (and, though they didn’t mention it, media) double standard for Republicans and Democrats.

And saying Slow Joe Biden should apologize for telling a roomful of blacks the Repubs would put them back in chains. Whose chains, Slow Joe? We know you’re history-challenged but try this: Your party backed the Klan and a hundred years of segregation while the Repubs, ahem, freed the slaves.

But the Globe. My, my. Hope and change, indeed. Just four years late.

(Here’s a perfect media example. Making sexist remarks is cute if you’re a Democrat. You get a free pass. If you’re a Republican, don’t try it.)

PLUS: I’d like this to be cynically wrong. But I remember the Democrat media’s destruction of Sarah Palin’s family…

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The Munich Eleven

Posted on August 19, 2012 | Comments Off on The Munich Eleven

Members of the Israeli Olympic team (five competitors, four coaches, a referee and a judge) who were slain in Munich by Palestinian terrorists in 1972. Whom the London Olympics chose not to recall even for a minute on this year’s 40th anniversary of their murders. But for whom American Gold medal gymnast Aly Raisman dedicated her performance. Click on the picture to enlarge for easier reading.

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