Where To, Bud?

Unfortunately it has come to pass that this blog has picked up an idiot who has decided he needs to harrass me. It is for this reason I am considering making the blog private. So if you sign onto WTB? and see a prompt for your e-mail address, that's why. No other reason, and I'll ask my co-administrator BillDL to give me his input regarding this decision. Till then we'll leave things as they are. Thanks Bill

I was asked this over my voice mail a few days ago and had been meaning to write about it, so here it is and here's my answer: "No, I'm not." (as you well know) But neither am I a homophobe and I have worked with and do have friends who are, so I guess that makes me gay by association in your eyes? This is one example of a small, narrow and shallow mind and I found it so hilarious that I kept it on my computer as an mp3 file. Perhaps (!)a good retort might be, "Are you a redneck?", and maybe the answer to that one might be, "Hell yeah, and I'm proud to be one!" Well, so is that person who is gay and so am I - to be his or her friend. Enough said about that . I only mentioned it here because I found it so humorous. =============================================================================== In other late news, we have a new member of the family. His name is Nikolas (because he joined us around Christmas time) and we call him Nikki for short

...... which makes us responsible" Y'all know that's my quote, right? "WE domesticated THEM, which makes US responsible". Well, I got curious about when we first began domesticating our animal friends, and what a surprise I got when I googled the question. Here's the link to the site: http://archaeology.about.com/od/dterms/a/domestication.htm Or you can click on the subject line above to read........ Holy cow! (so to speak) We domesticated the dog THAT early????? And what, we've been abusing them that long???? I don't know how much earthly time is left to me, but if I were to die in the next few minutes and were, in the last few moments granted a final wish, it would be this: "Take care of them and treasure them always, for they have helped you feed your families and give you happiness as pets, and how many of us two-leggers can give that on a constant basis?" ==============================================================================

Unbelievable how many people from foreign lands are visiting the blog! Very heartwarming as well, as I think many of them are my friends from The Straight Dope - a website/internet "bulletin board" I highly recommend for scintillating (is that correct or should it be "titillating"?) conversation and answers to any questions you may have about anything at all. Even the Dept of Veterans Affairs is checking in! So. We're in the new year, the holidays are (thankfully) behind us and now I'm in what I like to call "the doldrums". I didn't know that was a nautical/geographical term: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doldrums. I do know about "the horse latitudes", however. (Only after hearing Jim Morrison of The Doors sing about them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_latitudes). Apparently the name comes from an old seaman term "beating one's head against a dead horse" (or something like that). So, I am very happy to have my Lam