"What's your favorite football team?" someone asked the call-in show host. Only moments earlier he had queried someone about their favorite band. That got me thinking. Personally, I couldn't answer either question. "What's your favorite... team ...song ...movie ...Britney Spears body part." I might have overall favorit es -- a general group of things I prefer -- but rarely do I have any number one, absolute, all-time favorite of anything. Ask me what my favorite of something is an...

Thank God most terrorists are stupid. Take, for instance, "shoe bomber" Richard Reid , who in full view of flight attendants and fellow passengers attempted to light a fuse sticking out of his shoe. Stupid. There's nothing like a terrorist you can foil by turning on the "No Smoking" sign. Anyone with half a brain would have gone to the bathroom to light-up. His lack of I.Q. and covert smoking skills saved nearly 200 people. Like I said, thank God most terrorists are stupid. Our late...

It's been a week since I brought Fuzzy home. So far, so good. He's been urinating on his own. Sometimes it's only a spot assmall as a dime, but I'll take it. I never thought I would be sohappy to see cat urine. Here's the before and after: This is who I took to the hospital... ...and this is who I brought home. They shaved him, and he lost about 4 pounds. You can...

My worst fear was that I'd bring Fuzzy home and have to take him right back again, like happened earlier in the week. The doctor called today to say come get him. She said he was totally clear. There were some things I'd have to do for him, but he'd be all right. I had hoped they would keep him one more day to really be sure, but that wasn't to be. When my mother and I walked into the office to pick him up, the office manager (were those tears in her eyes?) said we needed to go i...

If it's not overly imposing to ask you all to pray for a cat, could you please pray for my cat? Fuzzy took a turn for the worse. I didn't even have him home 12 hours before the urinary blockage returned. When we walked back into the veterinary hospital today, they immediately grabbed him and rushed him into the back somewhere. I haven't seen him since. At first they weren't even really going to treat him, just give him a shot. The next suggested step was euthanasia. They have a po...

As I lay in bed, staring out the window at the full moon, I pondered what I could use to fight off werewolves. There's not much silver about the "silver"-ware. I doubt that any of what little jewelry I have is silver. In fact, I'm hard pressed to identify anything in the place that is certifiably silver. In the old days you could pelt the hairy beasties with quarters and nickels. If you were really good at flickin' coin, you might break hide or penetrate an eye ("Don't do that or you'll...

As I lay in bed, staring out the window at the full moon, I pondered what I could use to fight off werewolves. There's not much silver about the "silver"-ware. I doubt that any of what little jewelry I have is silver. In fact, I'm hard pressed to identify anything in the place that is certifiably silver. In the old days you could pelt the hairy beasties with quarters and nickels. If you were really good at flickin' coin, you might break hide or penetrate an eye ("Don't do that or you'll...

Let's talk about "subliminal communication," what some in marketing like to term "hypnotic communication." Whenever I read a page and it starts to say "Imagine..." my antennae start vibrating. There is someone very amateurishly trying to use hypnotic communication. They are trying place you into a certain state of mind, but going about it the wrong way. Ideally the subject should be affected without their knowledge (hence the "subliminal," which means "below consciousness"), seemingly ...

They tell me the entire time I was away, my cat did nothing but cry. Well, at least someone missed me. He's a freaky little thing. He hates to be alone. If I leave the room, you can be sure it won't be long before I glance down and find a grey-and-white fuzz ball laying nearby. He hates it when he can't have access to me. It's not so much that he needs access, he just wants to have it in case he feels like it. I can sympathize with those who had to put up with his non-stop crying spree....

They rushed me to the hospital in Bullhead. The slight stomachache I'd gone to sleep with the previous night turned intoexcruciating pain by the following morning. Bullhead's finest spent all day poking, prodding , and testing mewithout any clue what was wrong. 9 hours later, with the sunset fastapproaching, my E.R. doc peeked in, said a technician had recheckedmy cat scan and decided it might be my appendix. (kinda,sorta, maybe.) "We only have one surgeon here," he said, "and he's off for...

This site is rife with comments and articles proclaiming "Conservatives are XXXXX!" and "Liberals are XXXXX!" while hurling out every invective and pejorative the thesaurus can supply. I can't help but wonder, though, if you replaced "Conservatives" with "Whites" and "Liberals" with "Blacks" (or vice versa, though that division seems to work for Howard Dean) would these articles and attitudes still seem okay?

I'm toying with an e-book called "How To Write And Publish Your Own eBook In As Little As 7 Days" by Joe Vitale and Jim Edwards. (If you need me to explain to you what the book is about, go find another blog to read.) Aside from a lot of fluff to fill out the book and convince non-writers "Yes, you can really do this," the system comes down to: Day 1) Brainstorm a topic Day 2) Brainstorm everything you can think to say about the topic and take copious notes Days 3-5) Write your butt...

If you're old enough, you may remember Gilda Radner 's Saturday Night Live character Emily Litella. Emily would regularly appear on the news segment to rebut something she had heard during the broadcast. It always quickly became evident it was something she had misheard. For instance, instead of railing against a Supreme Court decision on the death penalty, Emily thought they were picking on the hearing impaired with a "deaf penalty." In another instance, Emily took a story about b...

If you're old enough, you may remember Gilda Radner 's Saturday Night Live character Emily Litella. Emily would regularly appear on the news segment to rebut something she had heard during the broadcast. It always quickly became evident it was something she had misheard. For instance, instead of railing against a Supreme Court decision on the death penalty, Emily thought they were picking on the hearing impaired with a "deaf penalty." In another instance, Emily took a story about b...