Category Archives: nothing special

Why yes, the First Amendment does protect his right to Free Speech.  Imagine that: Cop backs up protester. Best line by the cop: “If you don’t like free speech you should move to another country”

You know how Congress often adds amendments to bills that are totally unrelated to the bills themselves? While looking up the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 (in the aftermath of this post), I discovered … Continue reading →

The passing of Steve Gingras has made me once again realize how fleeting life is, and how important it is to tell people “thank you” and “I love you” before they are gone forever. People can die without a moment’s … Continue reading →

A friend on Facebook was posting about the bittersweet feeling of having her last IEP (Individual Education Plan) for her daughter.  I mentioned that we had had the best Special Ed Director in the world when the kids were in … Continue reading →

Tonight, since it was Tuesday, I went to the Loft in San Jose for trivia, as I do every Tuesday. Last week, The Resident Shrink, The Rocket Scientist and I had managed to not merely beat but pulverize The Gringos, … Continue reading →

Today is the first day of both NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month).  While the first may seem difficult — 50K can be a lot of words to crank out in 30 days — the … Continue reading →

In 1986, the Rocket Scientist and I were living in married student housing at Georgia Tech.  We had been watching the Series. He was pulling for the Red Sox and I for the Mets, a team which he hates even … Continue reading →

[Note: this may be the first of several baseball posts. I’m not quite sure.  It’s a little silly to do this now, since the Series has ended and we are well and truly into football season, but it’s what is … Continue reading →

It’s Halloween. I don’t have to help anyone with their costume this year, not even to the point of taking them to the Party USA store to get fake swords.  I don’t have to carve the pumpkin.  I don’t even … Continue reading →

This is just a note to myself here to remind me about the post I mean to write on the Billy Beane approach to baseball and what it means to all of us who were not traditionally the baseball in-crowd, … Continue reading →

Since the RSS feed goes out very soon after the posts are published, it is imperative that you let very emotional posts like this one sit for a while so that you can make sure that you can tone down … Continue reading →

When I was eleven or twelve, I asked for, and got, for Christmas a book of baseball history covering from the mid-19th century to 1972.  It was a hefty volume. I awoke at five. I beat everyone up by at … Continue reading →

It is hard not to notice something new is happening.  Actually, it has been happening for a while now, only with a different group of people. The citizens of this great nation are getting royally pissed off about the way … Continue reading →

On September 21,  Constitution Day, Troy Davis sat in his cell on Death Row in a Jackson, Georgia, waiting to hear if his last-minute appeal to the Supreme Court would be successful in postponing his execution. It was not. He … Continue reading →

The Red-Headed Menace keeps wanting to be a comedian, and failing miserably.  His attempts at jokes are sad.  All the while, he is capable of coming up with amusing statements that come out of nowhere.  One that I loved, although … Continue reading →