Things you just do not want to hear first thing in the morning

Hambet (mournfully): “Mommy, Mommy! My Bob underwear! It’s gone!” Peony: “Well, where did you put it?” Hambet: “I put it in the toilet and now it’s gone!” Well, sure enough, he was not wearing the Bob underwear he was wearing last night, the toilet was running, and there was no underwear floating around. I am… Continue reading Things you just do not want to hear first thing in the morning

On to a cheerier topic…

What should Pansy name her little boy? My suggestions: Pio Raphael Alphonsus Rex Ambrose Giovanni Paolo What other names should she consider?

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This like totally brings me back (or, Early ‘Eighties Daughter to the MAX!)

So, like, Mark Shea has like all the coolest links today! He has this, y’know, link to this TOTALLY TUBULAR URL that will translate your site into, like, Valley Girl! It sounded, like, so AWESOME! So I totally had to try it out. Anyway, I thought it was like SO FUNNY because I was like… Continue reading This like totally brings me back (or, Early ‘Eighties Daughter to the MAX!)

Cold Warrior’s Daughter II (or, Peony Moss: Fundamentalist Bully)

Mark Shea links to this Winfield Myers take on some Garrison Keillor thing. Myers has a nice discussion of Keillor’s misquotation of Dante (first put out there by man of letters John F. Kennedy; I particularly liked Myers’s line about the “Potemkin Camelot.”) But here’s what I want to know: Keillor lampoons the right as… Continue reading Cold Warrior’s Daughter II (or, Peony Moss: Fundamentalist Bully)

Cold Warrior’s Daughter

I started to “hatch” and become aware of politics and world events when I was around thirteen or fourteen. Ronald Reagan was the President and my dad was stationed at the Pentagon. It was a scary time; the left was telling us all the time that Reagan was a dangerous cowboy, that he was going… Continue reading Cold Warrior’s Daughter