I’m not even sure how to begin with this one. It seems that the Louisiana Conference of Catholic Bishops finds it necessary to have Senator Danny Martiny file a bill that will prohibit Louisiana scientists from creating human-animal hybrids for experimentation. I’m not kidding. Conference lobbyist Danny Loar said the bill is designed to be a [...]

Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) has announced that he will oppose the misnamed “Employee Free Choice Act” which he previously supported. That’s good news as far as I’m concerned because at least he’ll be nullifying the support given by  Senator Casey (D-PA) for the legislation. What’s absurd is Change to Win chairperson Anna Burger’s statement about the [...]

I’ve been following the shenanigans regarding the new stimulus bill, and have been shaking my head in dismay. I see the usual accusations of pork (which are almost always warranted) and the sniping by both sides about how something is or isn’t going to work… the usual ideological tripe from both sides. What I find most [...]

Yesterday, CNN’s Campbell Brown took Wells Fargo to task, not for canceling their lavish Vegas shindig, but for taking out two full-page ads in newspapers as a “thank you” to employees and to blame the media for the cancellation of their extravagant employee recognition festivities. In the ads, Wells Fargo’s CEO announced all of its big [...]

I just found this website while checking out PvP, a web comic that I follow. It’s a dad who creates new artwork on his kids’ lunchbags every day and he’s got a bunch of the bags on display on his website. Check them out. They’re pretty amazing… and it’s such a fun thing for a dad [...]

It seems that Wells Fargo canceled it’s all-expense-paid employee extravaganza in Vegas very shortly after the Associated Press article hit the news. The company initially defended the trip after The Associated Press reported it had booked 12 nights beginning Friday at the Wynn Las Vegas and the Encore Las Vegas. But within hours, investigators and lawmakers [...]

According to this article on MSNBC, Wells Fargo, which received about $25 billion in taxpayer bailout money,  is planning on having a “series of corporate junkets” to Las Vegas casinos this month. From the article… Wells Fargo, once among the nation’s top writers of sub prime mortgages, has booked 12 nights at the Wynn Las Vegas and [...]

I was saddened to hear that Ricardo Montalban died yesterday. When I was growing up, I always watched Fantasy Island every Saturday at my grandparents’ house and Mr. Rourke was always so cool, debonair, and mysterious. I so wanted to be just like him. Then, later in life, after having a daughter, she and I would [...]

I just saw this video on YouTube and thought I’d share. It’s about 46 seconds and is a time-lapse movie of a woodsy area for an entire year. Very cool.

Well, almost all of the Christmas festivities have ended around here. We have a little more gift exchanging to do tonight and then I think all the focus goes to New Year’s Eve. It’s a very quiet day today. I can almost hear Bill O’Reilly’s blood pressure dropping as he packages up his imaginary “War on [...]

My daughter’s new kitten started doing a begging thing with her paws and it was so cute that we just had to encourage it. Here’s a video of her doing it for treats. And yes, the other cats did get treats, too… just not during the video.

By the way, the Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog soundtrack is now available via an MP3 download at Amazon.com. This is important for folks like me who don’t use iTunes and never will. The Amazon MP3’s are not DRM protected, so you can play them on any MP3 player, which is one of the major benefits [...]