Common Sense

This is one of those times when I actually get to say something knowledgeable about someone famous who has passed away.
I had the good fortune to actually meet Lady Bird Johnson a couple of years ago at a taping of Texas Monthly Talks. Evan Smith was interviewing Jim Lehrer because he had a new fiction […]

Usually for the 4th of July, I repost a story I did on flag burning and taking flag worship to a level beyond what it should be. After all, what good is a symbol of freedom if you lose the freedom to use that symbol.
But this year I say “Move over Rover, and let Jimi […]

Apparently, people who want to vacation in the Western Hemisphere have found a backlog of passports being issued and vacations have been ruined.
The demand soared at the beginning of the year, as travelers sought to comply with a new rule requiring passports for all U.S. citizens flying within the Western Hemisphere.
And that demand has created […]

Anyone who knows me knows I cannot abide hippies for very long. There’s just something about them that ticks me off. But, I must congregate amongst them from time to time because our political views tend to mesh.
So it was Saturday. While driving in the freshly fallen snow, CommonSenseMom saw something you don’t see everyday […]

Longtime readers know that really, I only watch Countdown with Keith Olbermann to get my news every night. That, and Dateline, because I love watching Chris Hansen’s To Catch a Predator stings. Those guys are so funny.
Anyway, Keith’s coment last night was all about Condi.
On the Sunday morning interview show “Of Broken Record” on Fox, […]

Turns out the day the Trib runs a local story about geneaology is the same day we run a story about Strom Thurmond’s ancestors owning Al Sharpton’s ancestors. Too bad we didn’t run those stories on the same page.
Sharpton appeared on the O’Reilly show last night to discuss this. Especially since he is now demanding […]

You know, the one where it seems like everyone else on the planet is fucking insane, except for you. Well, I got that feeling when I read Seymour Hersh’s story that we’re finalizing our plans to attack Iran.
Why are we attacking Iran? Because they are supposedly behind some attacks on American soldiers in Iraq. Well, […]

I thought I would break my silence by shouting out to some bitching photographers. I mean that literally; one is my bitch by extension and the other is my bitch-in-law. Take that, straight from my pimp hand to your lips!
I also wanted to mention that I’ve changed my Top 8 around somewhat. My new No. […]

I feel like crap, but I’m in a good mood. Thank you Eli Lilly and company!
Yesterday, Sunday, I went out for lunch with my mom. We invited one of her friends (who happened to call that morning wanting to take her to the same restaurant we were planning on going to) and some of my […]

Apparently during one of the many days that I wasn’t paying attention, Lindsay Lohan must have called strippers “whores” and “cunts” (the word of the day).
A little known secret is that strippers are more powerful than the mob, and ‘Ol Firecrotch had to make restitution.
“I love strippers,” the 20-year-old actress gushed as she entered the […]