Housetraining Faith

Faith. The dog, that is. If you’ve time to read this blog, you’ve probably already read the news and know about this incident of animal heroism - or at least, animal training.

Yes, Faith rescued her owner - unconscious on the floor after falling from her wheelchair - by knocking the phone off the hook, pressing (with her nose?) the auto-dial 9-1-1, and barking into the receiver until the

The O’Reilly Factor

Extortion? Harassment?

60 MILLION dollars?

Hell, for $60,000,000, I’d listen to my boss tell me I needed a vibrator to loosen up, too. Well, yes, my husband is my boss, so that’s slightly less offensive, but still… I’m sure that Mr. O’Reilly just happened to have $60,000,000 as the balance in his checkbook the day that his former producer threatened to file the lawsuit. I mean, all news

Anthropological Hobbits

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=198867&page=1

And we thought Tolkien wrote fiction. Maybe he knew more than he was saying. He was part of a fiction-writing group with some other authors with imaginations bigger than they could feasibly write down in a lifetime: C.S. Lewis was one.

Anyway, what coincidence that they’d be found with Komodo dragons and pygmy elephants!

Juvenile Adults

I’ve a bad habit of playing Yahoo! games, particularly Literati, a game astonishingly similar to Scrabble. This is only a bad thing in that it requires a good deal of time and thought to win.

It’s really very easy: join a room, and either join a table or start your own and someone will come a-knockin’.

People are generally quiet when they play. The forum, while having a chat feature, is not

A Rainy Drought

We’re supposedly in an 8-year drought. This last week, it rained for the first time in six months. That’s not unusual, actually. It rains here from November to June, and then is dry through October.

Well, except this year. This year, we’re approaching a record amount of rain for October - nearly 7 inches in the last storm and another one that will be here soon - perhaps tonight. Already, we’ve

Campaigns: Convincing Your Supporters to Vote For You

Have you ever noticed that when presidents and president-wannabes campaign, they give speeches to people who already support them?

I thought the point of a campaign was to convince people who don’t want to vote for you, or don’t know who to vote for, to vote for you. Not to convince people who already are going to vote for you to vote for you.

Moreover, I fail to see how my neighbors putting