Common Sense

Michael Jackson has found a way around his public image and legal woes: visiting orphanages in Japan. Think about it, it’s perfect. Where the wheels always come off for him is dealing with sick kids’ parents. Orphans equals easy lay.
Plus the Japanese seem to still love him; they’d be happy to dump some of their […]

Soldiers’ Mom, Army Wife and Congressional Candidate, Mary Beth Harrell to Honor Nation’s Heroes at Memorial Day Service in Killeen
On Memorial Day Mary Beth Harrell will honor our nation’s heroes at the
Central Texas Veterans Cemetery service in Killeen at 4:30PM. As an Army
wife with two active-duty sons, including one who is deployed in Iraq, this
day […]

I had a really long weekend, not in the sense that I had a lot of time on my hands, but in that many bad things happened.
While we had a lot of fun, I honestly can’t remember most of last night. My short-term memory was severely hampered. I had a lot to drink. A lot. […]

(Ed. note: This review contains spoilers. In fact, it is almost nothing but spoilers. I have warned you.)
X-Men: The Last Stand isn’t as bad as all that, but I am glad I only had to pay the matinee price for the one o’clock show.
Nobodygirl and I had to sit and wait for quite a long […]

Not since Rep. Roger Griswold attacked Rep. Mathew Lyons on the floor of the House of Representatives with his hickory cane has there been such a ruckus on Capitol Hill.
Half an hour ago, someone reported what they thought were gunshots in the parking garage of the Sam Rayburn office building for members of Congress. The […]

Today is Porter Goss’ last official day as head of the CIA. But that’s OK because the Senate just confirmed Gen. Michael Hayden to take his place.

Nobodygirl and I decided to go see X-Men: The Last Stand at the special midnight preview. Alas, when we got there, there were no tickets.
Yeah, I should have bought them earlier, but, I was pressed for time all week and the theater doesn’t sell tickets online (though she said she saw a fandango.com poster in […]

Really, the way he looks in his mugshot makes me think he just got turned away from a really fun rollercoaster.

SIDNEY, Neb. May 25, 2006 (AP)— A judge said a 5-foot-1 man convicted of sexually assaulting a child was too small to survive in prison, and gave him 10 years of probation instead.
His […]

I wrote a Myspace bulletin yesterday.
In the normal course of my day yesterday (I was buying a gallon of Bush’s sweet tea) I ran into an old friend. A girl I had a serious crush on in high school.
She was a sophomore when I was a senior. Now, she has been married for 2 years […]

Kenneth Lay was found guilty of all six counts against him while Jeff Skilling was found guilty of 19 of 28 charges. These charges included conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud.
Skilling faced 28 counts of fraud, conspiracy, insider trading and lying to auditors, with a maximum sentence of 275 years in prison if convicted […]