Category: Everyday Stories

  • Yeah, hmmm, that flashlight trick

    My son just held up up a flashlight to his right ear and asked if I could see the light coming out of his left ear. That is rather how I’m feeling.

  • JUST US SUNDAY

    Just Us Justice Sunday. Frist set to use religious stage on judicial issue article at NY Times. Playing ping-pong with Heretik in the War Against Everything….

  • Why Tom Delay Apologized

    Now, one day the Goddess of Wise who looked over the doings of Capitol Hill was sorely depressed about it all, detecting precious little esteem for her at work. After some rumination on affairs of state, she called upon the Goddess of Love. “I want you to take care of Tom Delay, one way or…

  • Bush and Gonzales needed sometimes a break from the rigors of war

    “And then Cornyn, you know how Corny is, he says, ‘Take for example the harsh criticism about the Geneva convention. Judge Gonzales has been harshly attacked for advising the president that all detainees be treated humanely.’ Yeah, that’s what Corny said. What freakin’ boat did he ride in on?”

  • My brown eyed girl; You, my brown eyed girl

    [clear] Condi: Yes! At last! So, it’s war then. War against EVERYTHING! Promise you’re not gonna turn pussy on me when things get tough and go, “Uh, no, babe, not that”. George: Un, no…babe. Playing ping-pong with Heretik in the War Against Everything…. Lyrics: “Brown-eyed Girl” by Van Morrison

  • No Iraqi Child Left Behind

    [clear] Later, Laura called an emergency meeting at PSYOPS Headquarters with the PSYCHO WARLORDS… Laura: Yes, I am she. For sake of PSYOPS COMIX’ No Iraqi Child Left Behind Initiative, I reveal myself after these many years in order to provide Iraqi girls a proper role model. Now, as for my Super Consort… Playing ping-pong…

  • Cobalt Skink

    A friend of mine has begun blogging at Cobalt Skink. She writes some beautiful things. A nice meditation today on weeding brambles, horror vacuui, making space and space being filled. My son is telling me about majogos which are bugs that like to eat hair, which make everything unfurry and unhairy again. He asks if…

  • Sun kings and poppies and the spoils of war

    Dorothy is nearly to the Emerald City, she can see it glittering green cross the poppy fields, its architecture that of an hopeful congregation of grain-filled silos. She and her friends rush into the blaze of scarlet blossoms carpeting the broad, open hills and the Wicked Witch appears, waving her arms as if to rouse…

  • Elucidating on "run amok"

  • Rational Discussion Expected

    [clear] BATTLE ESCALATES! Tom Delay declares legitimate debate by people of good will against a Judiciary run amok in their War on Faith. The New American Homeland Security Vatican announced its Pope with smoke and bells on the steps of the Supreme Court. “And to imagine, I always thought it was grape juice,” Delay said,…

  • Mystery of the Lost Disaster Twins’ Episode

    [clear] I first came upon Julia and Robbie when we were being told to put plastic over the windows and duct tape our doors if the anthrax was blowin’ in the wind. Julia and Robbie first startled me. Then they made me happy. I read them several times over, delighted with FEMA. A bar had…

  • Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes-Benz

    [clear] I’ve been trying to track back down a Laura Bush-approved book for children on the war where kids are supposed to eat a star candy each day until mom or dad returns and send mom or dad star-shaped cookies. I came across it by chance the other night and can’t find it now. Thought…