Today is Samhain.  Most  possessors of pairs of ocular orbs that scan these missives, looking for a reason for a spit take (as does The Good Doctor, frankly) are already aware of this and many are celebrating as their traditions encourages or compels them to.
May I offer, for my beloved wife and myself, our grateful [...]

Continue reading...

Hello, Elected Leaders, Divinely Appointed Presidents, Military Caretakers, Hereditary Potentates, Clan Lords and Ladies, Benevolent Dictators, Them Whut Must Not Be Named, Behind the Scenes Goddesses, and folks named Joe;
You don’t know me, and this is just as well, because we don’t travel in the same circles, which sits just fine with me.
The reason I’m [...]

Continue reading...

The Good Doctor, as a longtime fan of history (Motto: “It’s What’s for Precedent!”) is savoring this particular cusp of the River Time in which we are all dipping our collective toe.  Much as wags of old would have seen portents in frog innards or the wisdom of the swirl of leaves in liquid or [...]

Continue reading...

If anything is clear to my simple mind as we pass the clubhouse in the final stretch of this era, which began when Senator Obama stated his intention to run for the President of the United States, it is this bedrock fact:  Aaron Sorkin has to win what ever sort of multi-dimensional award for achievement [...]

Continue reading...

Crossposted
In Lincoln, Nebraska, Douglas County Circuit Court Judge Marlon Polk dismissed State Senator Ernie Chamber’s lawsuit against God, who had sued Jehovah because “God has made terroristic threats against the senator and his constituents in Omaha, inspired fear and caused widespread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth’s inhabitants.”   The reason [...]

Continue reading...

The Good Doctor has quite the quandary on his hands.  He can’t decide whether to put his vast sums earned from a career of glitz fixing into the Bank of GE.  What’s that, you say?  You didn’t know that General Electric is a bank? Well, according to The Securities and Exchange Commission, they qualify as [...]

Continue reading...

Sigh.
It turns out that the Governatrix and I are just like two Pez pellets in a dinosaur head dispenser. Yes, we are. We both have a “wide variety of sources”, of which we “have read most of them”. It is almost enough to make me want to get a [...]

Continue reading...