That hotel cleaner you didn’t tip March 17, 2017 “Maybe she wipes your child’s face at day care. Maybe he mops the floors at your church. Maybe she makes the beds in the… Continue Reading
How the Cookies resist crumbling February 15, 2017 The Education Committee lasted almost three hours yesterday. We had several long presentations but the surprise was what I might have imagined to be… Continue Reading
A little Sunday night television watching April 4, 2016 I just knew that this week’s first episode of the 5th Season of Call the Midwives on PBS would have a backstory that someone… Continue Reading
10th Day of Christmas B December 23, 2014 This is my Christmas jigsaw puzzle. I’m not sure how many years I’ve taken over Claudia’s sun room to work on them but its… Continue Reading
Pulling our trousers down August 14, 2014 Prepare yourself for a little TMI. Not up on your acronyms? TMI = “too much information.” And to start this post at 2AM here’s… Continue Reading
Bullying Awareness Prevention Month… October 14, 2013 …is October. I do not have all the facts of this next story. It is a sobering story both tragic and a bit of… Continue Reading
I wasn’t kidding about being too clean September 9, 2013 In my August 2nd Not Eudora column I joked that the real reason for our health maladies was not vaccinations but too much hygiene… Continue Reading
High School Football fini? July 12, 2013 I want one of these for every high school football player in the state of Minnesota. I’d rather be sending my son to grad… Continue Reading
Demographics #1 April 5, 2013 I’d heard recently that American women’s longevity, which for so long exceeded men, was beginning to wane and men were catching up. That is… Continue Reading
How the GOP’s private enterprise health care costs stack up against the world’s socialist models. March 29, 2013 There are 20 more graphs here that compare other medical costs. They are all just as bad or worse. Continue Reading
Death in the modern world March 25, 2013 I spent a long time looking at this graph. Its seems to suggest that war has become a less likely cause of death in… Continue Reading
Two workers on staff in my Mom’s wing January 25, 2013 I went to sing to my Mother this morning. I took a bunch of new songs including one I just found that she used… Continue Reading
June 29, 2012 “A government with the power to force us to buy health insurance can also force restaurants to serve black people.†From Bruce Bartlet’s Facebook… Continue Reading
Why Obamacare won on a technicality…. June 29, 2012 …called a majority: “Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be “constitutional” does not make it so. The whole… Continue Reading
Bill Gates has one smart wife May 14, 2012 From the Daily Beast: Gates believes that by focusing on the lives of women and children, and by making it clear that the agenda… Continue Reading
This is one of the Reasons the RINOs were hounded out of the GOP March 23, 2012 To prevent them, our Senator David Durenberger and a host of others included, from introducing a law like the one President Obama got passed…. Continue Reading
Pretty soon we’ll find out if the Supreme Court… March 23, 2012 …is going to join the President in destroying the Constitution when they rule on Mitt Romney’s brainchild of mandated health insurance payments: Wish I… Continue Reading
This Republican proposal sounds a little like gang rape February 17, 2012 Virginia Republicans know a good cause deserving of becoming law: Virginia House has passed a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound… Continue Reading
The GOP’s business… February 16, 2012 …is not a lady’s business. Apparently: This morning, Democrats tore into House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) for preventing women from testifying… Continue Reading