• The Life of Riley

    Those Rotten Monkeys Did It Again

    October 9, 2006 - By 

    It's been lovely, really lovely being head of household. Now it's the time of year when it gets cold and my fur puffs up to keep me warm when a door or window is cracked open. It was like this before when the monkeys brought me home from the catpersons' detention center. And how do they mark this anniversary? They go away and leave me again. I tried to stow away in my monkeylady's carry thing, but she found me. Drat. Today the lady who looked after my simple needs came in and fed me and petted me. And now…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Foley:

    October 9, 2006 - By 

    Ex-page reported Foley to GOP lawmaker in ’00 | Chicago Tribune A spokeswoman for Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz.) confirmed Sunday that a former page showed the congressman Internet messages that had made the youth feel uncomfortable. Kolbe’s press secretary, Korenna Cline, said “corrective action” was taken. But Cline said she hadn’t yet determined whether that action went beyond Kolbe’s confrontation with Foley. The revelation pushes back by at least five years the date when a member of Congress has acknowledged learning of Foley’s questionable behavior. A timeline issued by House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) suggested the first lawmakers to know,…

  • Moblog

    Horses asses

    October 8, 2006 - By 

    Aw, who wouldn’t want a couple of horses’ asses on their bookshelf? So tasteful. I can think of a Congressman or two who might really appreciate these.   Via: Flickr Title: Horses asses By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 8 Oct ’06, 1.31pm CDT PST  

  • Health And Fitness

    Orthotics

    October 5, 2006 - By 

    Welcome to Solo Laboratories, Inc. :: Yep, got new shoes (New Balance 854s) and the orthotics fit them a lot better than my old, brokendown shoes. Actually, they’re already pretty comfortable, though I’m still getting used to the rock-hard stability “rollbars” on the sides, which will prevent roll-overs like I had 2 years ago They performed well just now in when I had to walk down 11 flights for a fire drill, so let the walking begin.

  • Hot Off The Presses

    All Silent On The Religious Right

    October 3, 2006 - By 

    Bob Geiger: Religious Right Strangely Silent About Foley – Yahoo! News Oh, yes, I’ve been following the Mark Foley story as it unfolds in all its sordid, explicit detail. Strangely, those incessantly yapping jerkwads of the Religious Right (Dobson, Falwell, et. al.) have suddenly fallen silent. How very conveeeeenient.

  • Clan: McTiVo

    Cat-Nuns! No Sense Of Humor!

    October 1, 2006 - By 

    The second episode of the new season of Doctor Who was fun, featuring the new Doctor and all, but it wasn’t quite as good as any of the previous season’s episodes. However, it did establish one thing: 5 billion years in the future on New Earth, cat-nuns are the healers. So now I wants, wants, wants me a cat-nun to talk to, because they talk back in a very pleasant British accent, with sharp little pointy teeth they politely keep tucked behind their furry little lips. Oh, so cute! And they cure people too… although they also have some rather…

  • Health And Fitness

    For The Record

    September 30, 2006 - By 

    Today’s interesting scientific curiousity via Boing Boing: an Health Medical” href=”http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article1768833.ece”>Independent Online Edition >article about the releative length of women’s fingers posits that women whose ring fingers are longer than their index fingers tend to be more athletic, possibly from having been exposed to more testosterone in the womb. As it happens, I’m one of those few, those happy few, those band of sisters with a longer ring finger in relation to the index finger. And I’ve always been a tomboy, with very little interest in girly fashion, girly behavior, or girly preoccupations like dolls or babies. Also, not so…