Jack on July 25th, 2008

If you can’t guess what category this belongs in ….  Anyway, out here in the Southwest, you have a different breed of rappers than the big cities of the North and the East. Out on the range, driving cattle, at the end of the day the cowboys gather round the fire. After a few tugs on [...]

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Jack on April 11th, 2008

C’mon, doesn’t Rugula sound like the name of a college in Upstate New York? Maybe with a rugby team called the Rhinos? Otherwise, the pastry does taste good. It just has that odd name.

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Jack on April 7th, 2008

A break from serious stuff. No offense to Catholics, but “Pope on a rope?” Yes, the Pontiff is coming to the DC Metro area and vendors are stocking up on such memorabilia as bobblehead Popes and “Pope on a rope”. Perhaps this is a way to wash away your sins? Not a “Midnight Confession” but [...]

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The U.S. State Department warns Americans who plan on attending the Olympics in China to not hold any expectations about privacy in hotel rooms, residences or offices while in Beijing. Funny, I no longer have much expectation about privacy in hotel rooms (ask Eliot Spitzer about that), my house or elsewhere here in America either. With all the [...]

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Jack on March 22nd, 2008

Wow, there’s nothing like a gun strapped to your hip to work up an appetite! I’m talking about Virginia’s own certifiable gun nuts who plan on bringing their guns to dinner in Northern Virginia restaurants on three Saturdays in April. Why? Because Dick Saslaw, a member of the Virginia General Assembly had the audacity to [...]

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Jack on March 13th, 2008

In what turns out to be old news, we learn that Sonia Thomas, competitive eating champ from the DC Metro area thought better of taking on a 235-pound crabcake. The Guiness Book of Records people only just now confirmed that the giant seafood item, created in 2006, was the largest crabcake ever. Weighing in at nearly twice her [...]

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Jack on March 7th, 2008

When you’re out of sorts, in what aisle of the supermarket do you go looking for them I wonder?

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Jack on February 29th, 2008

According to White House sources, the “virtual” fence between the U.S. and Mexico has been delayed due to software problems with the pilot project. My suspicion is there are things they are not telling us. Let’s start with the illegal aliens–no, not the ones the fence is supposed to keep out but the ones working [...]

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Jack on February 22nd, 2008

Off the road and back to the home PC. Stopped at an outlet mall along I-95 on the way home from Florida. Instead of regular coffee, all they had was irregular. Goes with the clothes offered for sale at the outlet stores I guess.

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Jack on January 30th, 2008

In a recent special to the Washington Post, I found this interesting tidbit:
Once upon a time, people did yoga to relax. But closer to home, Type A’s . . . are squeezing an adrenaline rush out of their ohm (sic) time.
This is shocking news, given that ohm is a measure of electrical resistance. Perhaps the writer or the [...]

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