I got a little fake Christmas tree at Walmart without a clue what I was going to do with it. But setting it up in the kitchen, I got an idea and made myself happy.
Behold my tea tree!

The teapot/teacup ornaments I already had. (Do other people fall victim to silly things like those? I hope […]

I was wrong. There are LOTS of stupid things you can buy this year. All of these came by way of OhGizmo, to which you can turn, apparently, for all your useless contraption needs.
Consider the joys of presenting your loved one with:

A calendar made of matches
Solar vertical blinds that will show you a picture of […]

When I talked about the stupidest Christmas presents I saw in catalogs — back HERE  — I must’ve been onto something, because that post regularly gets incoming traffic, even though I wrote it back in ought-four. Sure enough, if you Google ’stupid Christmas presents,’ this is the close to the top of the list. I’m […]

Why is there no peace in our bones, in our soul and in our heart? Because of our sins! Because we are not at all instructed in humility, because we very much love to argue and prove that we know more than others, because we do not stop conversing with our thoughts, which — along […]

I’ve grown used to the fact that an average newspaper story on President Bush goes something like this:
Adolph Hitler President Bush goose-stepped his lying, chimp-like little self to the pressroom today to announce another of his completely idiotic ideas…
Whereas the average Obama story goes something like this:
President John F. Kennedy President-elect Obama and his lovely […]

Some of the mainstream media are acting like a person with a hangover trying to figure out what happened last night.
The Washington Post’s ombudsman deals with ‘morning after’ guilt over the paper being in the can for Obama:
The Post provided a lot of good campaign coverage, but readers have been consistently critical of the lack […]

From the yellow light of October to the white light of November. Earlier this week, I was still enjoying the glinting sun, bright blue sky and crispy leaves underfoot. Then today, November woke up, and the sky went flat and bright. It reminded me of the light of diamonds, which in turn reminded me of […]

On the lighter side:
Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are

Conservatives are supposed to be being conciliatory right now. We’re supposed to be acting classy and doing all that elegant stuff like congratulating Obama and taking our rightful place as the losers with the ‘good sport’ pin on our lapel.
That’s baloney. I’m a sore loser, and I’m honest enough to admit it.

In a way, though, […]

We get such interesting light during this time of Indian summer. Greg sent me this picture on Halloween of the south-facing window curtain in his office, just labeling it “Scary angry curtain.” Indeed.

I would’ve thought it was just a coincidence that it looked so spooky on Halloween, except that today when Greg looked at the […]