Dept. of Nance

O ne of the biggest differences between dogs and cats occurred to me as I was on a lovely Saturday drive with Rick recently. We had decided ...

??????? There is so much Crazy going on here that I can't knot my neurons around it. At this point we can just overlook the implication ...

D ragging myself out of my Exhaustion/Frustration Coma long enough to post this bit of Car Dialog. It is indicative of my Addled Mental Stat...

O h, dearest Ones. Who knows when I shall ever again be able to coherently form delightful phrases, erudite sentences, or coherent magnifice...

O h, "Julio. The Contractor." (Or Julia, is it?) I struggle more with your overall message than with your lack of SpacingBetweenWo...

I f you can possibly stand it, I am going to blather on here and randomly dump all the Head Detritus that's clattering around in my cran...

O kay, so... WHAT, NOW? Let's just for one moment--if we can--ignore that first sign (in all its Crazy-Peddling Glory). And the fact t...

I n spite of dire predictions from Conventional Wisdom, right-wing pundits, Interpol, and several Celebrity Astrologers from all over the In...

S igh. Apparently, the following apply: 1. "Big Government" refers to standardized spelling. 2. The Government's version ...

S ummer is making me a fatass. Our unusual heatwave (double-digit days in the 90s here in my little corner of NEO just in July alone) couple...

T here is no way in hell I can resist it when the teapartiers peddle their crazy so blatantly as this, on the back of a (Japanese) Nissan Fr...

O h, where to begin? I am filled with longing and revulsion, nostalgia and anticipation, regret and satisfaction. How could these diametrica...

I f only this man had just gone on to the NASCAR race instead--that's obviously what he is dressed for--but no. He had to stop real qui...

E ver since CNN.com screwed around with its web page format, I have relied more on MSNBC.com as my go-to online News Source. (And do not get...

A nd I am losing my mind. Even though I am On Summer Vacation, the English teacher in me never rests, and right now every single fibre of m...

P ardon me, but it's time to shake out a little Cerebral Residue. I've simply got to get rid of these little clutterbits and oddment...

E ven if this sign were continued on the back, it still wouldn't make any sense. Even if the word "descent" was supposed to be...

D isaster averted at the Dept. yesterday. NEO--for those of you who don't remember, that's the ubercool way to refer to N orth E as...

I could go on and on with the "full of shit" metaphor here, but really, I'd rather let all of you.

W hen Rick and I first married, we used to ruefully call our time spent doing any household cleaning "Marital Blissing." Our littl...