Major Mike's Musings

My sweet daughter takes an infinite number of quizes that reveal her inner soul (well, some characteristics, at least), but every time I take one, they ask to sign up for something. I already get enough junk mail and I usually can’t figure out how to complete the quiz wthout giving away my two firsborn [...]

Beloit College has published its Mindset List for the class of 2010.
Members of the class of 2010, entering college this fall, were mostly born in 1988. For them: Billy Carter, Lucille Ball, Gilda Radner, Billy Martin, Andy Gibb, and Secretariat have always been dead.
Here are a few of the mindsets:
1. The Soviet Union [...]

Mark, Mark, Mark…
So far I’ve been successful at avoiding tags. I treat them as chain letters, mostly, mainly because I don’t have the patience to so the work to pass it along. I’m usually as squirrelly as a Jr. High School Boy.1 Even if I love you, it will be a long time before [...]

In Bad Business by Robert B. Parker, Spenser asks Rita Fiore how her love life is going. She responds:
“Busy,…but, same old question, ‘why are there so many more horses’ asses than there are horses?’”

Thanks to all of you who responded to What Do These Articles Have In Common?.
Very good, folks. My Dau emphasizes blaming external sources for lack of personal responsibility; Bonnie quotes her Grandma who says, “we’re all going to hell in a handbasket;” Scoop encouraged me to change the posting category to “Obvious” subfolder “Dah!” Vicki [...]