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Month: November 2013

Does this “apology” …

… sound to you as if we peasants are now being accused of bitterly clinging to our health insurance? Does to me. Meanwhile Ms Potemkin Sebelius has apparently just made “an important announcement” about ObamaCare that amounts to “the new five-year plan orders the insurance industry to add even more benefits you don’t need to the insurance you can’t get.” And the Nazgul claim there’s an actual, constitutional law buried somewhere deep inside this mess? And supporters go on supporting Obamacare even after getting clobbered, because surely once Dear Leader is made aware of the problem, he’ll rush to take…

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Home and a funny

I’m home. Which at the moment seems a decidedly mixed blessing. It was a great getaway. I’m glad to be here (and very grateful to the friend who came over and turned the heat on hours before I arrived), but not at all ready to return to the world of bad news. While I get ready to face reality, here’s a funny trapeze act for you. Die Maiers — trapeze from Joachim Mohr on Vimeo. I’ve never linked a Vimeo video before, but this isn’t on YouTube. Hope it works.

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Sometimes it just feels good to be away

Day 2 of my beach getaway. Random thoughts. —– Sometimes just being away is enough. I could almost have checked into a motel across town from my house and gotten the same benefit of “away-ness.” Of course dramatic surf, art galleries, and amazing restaurants are a plus, but not really necessary. The perspective is what matters. —– Being warm is good, too. My house is very cold and hard to heat. Being chilly all the time makes me feel as pathetic as Oliver Twist. This, too, shall be remedied in time, but right now, it’s fantastic to remedy it simply…

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Getaway for Guy Fawkes Day

It has been. Since last spring. A crazy, crazy, hectic, maddening, stressed-out year. Not necessarily a bad year, understand. But … difficult. A modest sum of money (long awaited, overdue) finally landed in my vicinity a couple of weeks ago. Glory hallelujah! But I immediately put it to work creating more chaos. Which got more chaotic as it went along. My head. Was about. To explode. So yesterday I went online and found the lowest-cost vacation rental in an Oregon beach town, booked it, and dropped the poor, pathetic, protesting pooches at furrydoc’s kennel (thanks, furrydoc!). Today … here I…

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How many seconds would you have to die?

Outrage over the murder of Andy Lopez seems to have run its media course. And a short course it was. A few days. Even while the gunblogosphere was spreading the news that a California sheriff’s deputy had assassinated a 13-year-old boy for walking down the street with an Airsoft gun, the story was already being dismissed. One of the more conservative gunbloggers sniffed (I paraphrase), “Too bad. But after all, he refused to obey a police command.” Carl-Bear Bussjaeger blew that notion away with his terrible, moving, “10 Seconds to Die.” That poor kid, just minding his own business, was…

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Good causes for the holidays (UPDATED)

As mentioned earlier, I’m not holding a fundraiser or hoping for Christmas gifts this year. I do hope you’ll my Amazon links for all your online Christmas shopping. —– Beyond that, I hope you’ll consider sending holiday bounty to EDITED Joel’s Eyeball Fund. Use the bolded link, scroll down, then click the donation button on the right. Our entertaining hermit buddy is managing his glaucoma, but he’s going to need expensive cataract surgery. And right now he can’t even afford his winter’s oatmeal. I’ve removed two other donation recommendations, one because its campaign is over, the other because it has…

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Not a good week for Deep Thought, but …

Okay, I started out the week telling you I was working on something that required Thought. Yeah, well. Try that while you’re deadlining and spending the days having parts of your house reduced noisily to rubble, being unexpectedly without both power and plumbing for much of the time (and listening to the plumber blame the carpenter for plumbing screwups and the carpenter explain why he needs to take an extra day and a half on the job playing electrician), and … well, ETC. Lots and lots of ETC. Whether I’ll be able to return to the Deep Thought blog, I…

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