Life in the Big House
The Desperate Diary of Felicity Huffman Friday Dear Diary, Well, the judge just threw the book at me. Fourteen days in the slammer. (I believe my fellow cons call that “hard time.”) My attorneys,...
Jay's Blog
Love Hurts
I have a big confession to make: In general, sports of all kinds leave me cold. Football, baseball, golf, the Olympics – I could not care less. However, acknowledging that sports is the lingua...
Things Could Be Worse
It’s been quite a while since I have posted a personal health update – 41 months, to be exact – but I realize that not all subscribers to this blog are primarily interested in...
Laws of the Universe
The other day I was listening to one of my favorite radio stations and a commercial came on for a big concert taking place at a local venue. At one point, the commercial asserted,...
All in the Family
Some time ago, all eyes were on Colombian drug lord Joaquín Guzmán, better known as «El Chapo» (which, I think, means “the Chapstick”), but how much do we really know about the criminal kingpin?...
Emergencies Reimagined
I’ve had this on my hard drive for ages … think it’s hilarious … want to pass it along, courtesy of this site. How To Deal With Emergencies The U.S. government has a website,...
Laws Abiding
I saw a road sign the other day that got me to thinking: “Obey All Laws.” First, good tip. Second, when you think about it, that is a tremendous responsibility to give an ordinary...
Universal Truth
I got to thinking the other day about the universe and stuff. (The aforesaid thinking might have had something to do with medical marijuana – I think the “doctor” diagnosed me with “bees knees,”...
Assault on Battery
All these years we thought it merely coincidence that all of the low-battery alarms shrieked by all of the bad-stuff detectors in our homes seem to go off in the middle of the night....
