Reasons for Women to date DOUG

This is DOUG’s house. He bought it for he and his mom and now he owns it outright. It’s an awesome old farmhouse on Naples luxurious lower East Side. DOUG’s mom had a massive stroke a few years back, and DOUG took complete care of her until the [...]

Quantum Leap

I know this is a little bit late, but I’ve been behind in my reading. This is a gem from my favorite local muckraker and guest blogger Lappe Parrish.
Is Leap Day more significant than most people tend to acknowledge? What exactly does “any day” to the calendar do to our intrinsic sense [...]

Food recognition 101: The Backyard

Earlier this week before my surgery one of my last two-handed tasks was to make a very crude map of our small plot of land. This is the time of year when we need to order food bearing trees to plant throughout the yard. But before we ordered trees, we had to have [...]

Post Surgery Blues

So on Monday I had my operation.
This is the 1st St. Patrick’s Day in many St. Patrick’s days that I’ve spent more sedated than most of the people hanging out at the bars. I had three different levels of sedation for the operation and decided when I got home that I would wait for [...]

Surgery Tomorrow

Tomorrow I get surgery on my shoulder.
Last week I tied up as many loose ends as possible at work, and tried to tie up a few at home. I’m going to be out of work for six weeks, mostly because I won’t be able to drive.
I’m not so much freaked [...]

Reasons to Vote For Obama Courtesy of Fox

I think Fox has reached the point with me where whatever Fox wants me to do or wants me to think, I think the exact opposite. If you can subtract the shameless jingoism inherent in these news clips, you have millions of reasons to vote for Obama.

This One’s for You, Spitzer

Elliott, man, you played a fine guitar
And some dirty basketball
The songs you wrote
Got me through a lot
Just wanna tell you that
But it’s too late
It’s too late
No, don’t you know
it’s been too late
for a long time
Oh no
Things were looking up
Least that’s what I heard
Oh no
Someone came and washed away your hard-earned
Peace of mind
When desperate static beats [...]

I’ve Lost Faith in the Political System

I heard Elliot Spitzer speak for the first time when I was at a teacher’s conference in Albany a couple years ago. I heard him talk about his experience bringing down the monsters in Wall Street. He gave a little lesson in history, and how his hero was Teddy Roosevelt because TR was [...]