The BBC World News has taken up Ashley’s story and asks the question: Are parents of severely disabled girl right to stunt her growth? I think the question grossly mistates what is really going on. The more I think about Ashley and her family the more disturbed I become about the questions we as a society now face. How are you dealing with this?
Here’s the question: where in the Constitution does it say the President gets to dis legislation? I can’t find it. Can you? So the next question has to be: when is someone going to challenge one of these signing statements in court? Remember when the Republican Party was the party of Law and Order?
I guess that depends upon what your definition of Law is.
From New York’s Daily News:
President Bush has quietly claimed sweeping new powers to open Americans’ mail without a judge’s warrant, the Daily News has learned.
The President asserted his new authority when he signed a postal reform bill into law on Dec. 20. Bush then issued a “signing statement” that declared his right to open people’s mail under emergency conditions.
That claim is contrary to existing law and contradicted the bill he had just signed, say experts who have reviewed it.
Bush’s move came during the winter congressional recess and a year after his secret domestic electronic eavesdropping program was first revealed. It caught Capitol Hill by surprise.
“Despite the President’s statement that he may be able to circumvent a basic privacy protection, the new postal law continues to prohibit the government from snooping into people’s mail without a warrant,” said Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the incoming House Government Reform Committee chairman, who co-sponsored the bill.
And from The New York Times:
The White House said Thursday that President Bush was not claiming any new executive authority last month when he issued a statement suggesting that postal inspectors could open mail without a warrant in emergency circumstances.
Tony Snow, the White House spokesman, said the statement Mr. Bush issued in signing postal legislation was merely a restatement of existing law allowing mail to be opened without a warrant in “exigent circumstances” to protect public safety.
“All this is saying is that there are provisions at law for, in exigent circumstances, for such inspections,” Mr. Snow said. “It has been thus. This is not a change in the law. This is not new.”
The questions arose after The New York Daily News published an article on Thursday drawing attention to the Dec. 20 signing statement and legal questions surrounding it. The front page featured a photo of Mr. Bush alongside the banner headline: “Prez Goes Postal.”
Federal law, in keeping with the constitutional prohibition on unreasonable searches, generally prohibits the government from opening first-class mail without a warrant. But a 1996 postal provision allows postal inspectors to open mail without a warrant in narrow circumstances if there is credible evidence that a package contains a bomb or other dangerous material.
Then finally (for now) from The Washington Post:
President Bush signed a little-noticed statement last month asserting the authority to open U.S. mail without judicial warrants in emergencies or foreign intelligence cases, prompting warnings yesterday from Democrats and privacy advocates that the administration is attempting to circumvent legal restrictions on its powers.
A “signing statement” attached to a postal reform bill on Dec. 20 says the Bush administration “shall construe” a section of that law to allow the opening of sealed mail to protect life, guard against hazardous materials or conduct “physical searches specifically authorized by law for foreign intelligence collection.”
White House and U.S. Postal Service officials said the statement was not intended to expand the powers of the executive branch but merely to clarify existing ones for extreme cases.
“This is not a change in law, this is not new, it is not . . . a sweeping new power by the president,” spokesman Tony Snow told reporters. “It is, in fact, merely a statement of present law and present authorities granted to the president of the United States.”
But some civil liberties and national-security law experts said the statement’s language is unduly vague and appears to go beyond long-recognized limits on the ability of the government to open letters and other U.S. mail without approval from a judge.
Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies in Washington, said the government has long been able to legally open mail believed to contain a bomb or other imminent threat. But authorities are generally required to seek a warrant from a criminal or special intelligence court in other cases, Martin and other experts said.
“The administration is playing games about warrants,” Martin said. “If they are not claiming new powers, then why did they need to issue a signing statement?”
Yet another voice speaks up at Salon:
There was understandably little fanfare when, just before Christmas, President George W. Bush signed into law the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act. But attached to this mundane postal legislation was a little-noticed presidential signing statement asserting the government’s power to open first-class mail without a warrant — technically, “an item of a class of mail otherwise sealed against inspection.”
The belated unearthing of this Dec. 20 signing statement was enough to prompt the New York Daily News Wednesday to trumpet on its tabloid front page, “PREZ GOES POSTAL — Outrage as Bush Claims New Powers to Open YOUR Mail.”
Not exactly. Interviews with law professors, postal officials, congressional aides and civil liberties advocates produced the consensus viewpoint that the government already possessed this limited letter-opening power under the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Asked about the signing statement, Rich Shaheen, national public information officer for the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, said, “Nothing has changed for us.”
Rather than a whitewash, Shaheen’s statement underscores a potentially more serious problem — how little is known about the current administration’s use of these long-established powers to monitor personal mail.
If President George Bush thinks that the Congress has overstepped its consitutional boundaries by limiting the constitutional powers of the executive branch then he needs to take it up with the Supreme Court. This signing statement crap has to stop.
My name is Jeff Hess and I’m a biblioholic. I own hundreds of books. Not valuable books, mostly Science Fiction paperbacks and text books, tomes rescued by the bag from library book sales. A few years ago, in the interest of not burying myself, I began reading more books from the library and taking notes. My electronic chapbook was born.
This is a passage I copied from Zohar Pritzker Edition Volume 1 by Daniel C. Matt.
“We are living in a time in which the whole future — not only of Israel but of humanity — is at stake. This is why the wisdom of Qabalah that was kept hidden for so long, in a closely guarded and protected oral tradition handed down from master to disciple from the time of Moses, is now being written down and given out to anyone sincere and humble enough to try to embody it.
Just as the Tibetan mystics kept their wisdom to themselves for almost two thousand years and are now opening its treasures to the world, so we Qabalists understand that the time has come to share what we know. In the pain and struggle of our time, a planetary spiritual civilization is struggling to be born.
It will bring together in a way none of us can yet imagine all the highest teachings of all the greatest mystical traditions to give humanity what it needs to meet the terrible challenges it faces and to prepare it for a wholly new and wonderful flowering that the prophecies of many religions foresee.” Matt”s friend Ezekiel. p. xi
Every once in a while I like to take a look at what brings people to Have Coffee Will Write by examining the search phrases they typed in that led them here. Last month I had a huge spike in my traffic (5,000+ unique visitors in one day) that I can only attribute to interest in an obscure female blogger: Jessica Cutler.
And sure enough, Jessie showed up in the No. 1 and No. 4 spots in my search engine rankings.
jessica cutler
post secret
jeff hess
jessica cutler pictures
nathan goff s children
funny new year s resolutions
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female dictators
Female dictators? Isn’t that redundant?
OK, when I was in the Navy two eons ago I spent my share of time around silicone; the peaks, not the valley. But I never saw anything like Olivia, Marie, Naomi or Jo? Physics is, well, physics. Wendy Paris has the details at Salon. And my nomination for the 13-year-old boy fantasy career of the 21st century? Hand-painted nipple specialist.
There is a family in Seattle, Washington, wrestling with decisions that no parents should ever have to consider; questions that bioethicists have nightmares about. There is a lot of material here and I applaud the way Ashely’s parents are putting their lives and the life of a daughter they love before the world so that a conversation can happen.
Our daughter Ashley had a normal birth, but her mental and motor faculties did not develop. Over the years, neurologists, geneticists, and other specialists conducted every known traditional and experimental test, but still could not determine a diagnosis or a cause. Doctor”s call her condition “static encephalopathy of unknown etiology”, which means an insult to the brain of unknown origin or cause, and one that will not improve.
Now nine years old, Ashley cannot keep her head up, roll or change her sleeping position, hold a toy, or sit up by herself, let alone walk or talk. She is tube fed and depends on her caregivers in every way. We call her our “Pillow Angel” since she is so sweet and stays right where we place her-usually on a pillow.
Ashley is a beautiful girl whose body is developing normally with no external deformities; see photos. She is expected to live a full life and was expected to attain a normal adult height and weight. Ashley being in a stable condition is a blessing because many kids with similarly severe disabilities tend to deteriorate and not survive beyond five years of age.
Ashley is alert and aware of her environment; she startles easily. She constantly moves her arms and kicks her legs. Sometimes she seems to be watching TV intently. She loves music and often gets in celebration mode of vocalizing, kicking, and choreographing/conducting with her hands when she really likes a song (Andrea Boccelli is her favorite – we call him her boyfriend). She rarely makes eye-contact even when it is clear that she is aware of a person”s presence next to her. Ashley goes to school in a classroom for special needs children, which provides her with daily bus trips, activities customized for her, and a high level of attention by her teachers and therapists.
Ashley is no different from more children in the world than I can begin to count. I have worked with a tiny number of children with special needs far less demanding than Ashley’s yet I have seen the toll meeting those needs place upon their parents.
What Ashley’s parents are contemplating next, however, is extraordinary.
The “Ashley Treatment” is the name we have given to a collection of medical procedures for the improvement of Ashley”s quality of life. The treatment includes growth attenuation through high-dose estrogen therapy, hysterectomy to eliminate the menstrual cycle and associated discomfort to Ashley, and breast bud removal to avoid the development of large breasts and the associated discomfort to Ashley. We pursued this treatment after much thought, research, and discussions with doctors.
Nearly three years after we started this process, and after the treatment was published in October, 2006 by Dr. Gunther and Dr. Diekema in a medical journal1 that resulted in an extensive and worldwide coverage by the press[2, 3, 6] and a broad public discussion4, we decided to share our thoughts and experience for two purposes: first, to help families who might bring similar benefits to their bedridden “Pillow Angels”; second, to address some misconceptions about the treatment and our motives for undertaking it.
A fundamental and universal misconception about the treatment is that it is intended to convenience the caregiver; rather, the central purpose is to improve Ashley”s quality of life. Ashley”s biggest challenges are discomfort and boredom; all other considerations in this discussion take a back seat to these central challenges. The “Ashley Treatment” goes right to the heart of these challenges and we strongly believe that it will mitigate them in a significant way and provide Ashley with lifelong benefits.
Unlike what most people thought, the decision to pursue the “Ashley Treatment” was not a difficult one. Ashley will be a lot more physically comfortable free of menstrual cramps, free of the discomfort associated with large and fully-developed breasts, and with a smaller, lighter body that is better suited to constant lying down and is easier to be moved around.
Ashley”s smaller and lighter size makes it more possible to include her in the typical family life and activities that provide her with needed comfort, closeness, security and love: meal time, car trips, touch, snuggles, etc. Typically, when awake, babies are in the same room as other family members, the sights and sounds of family life engaging the baby”s attention, entertaining the baby. Likewise, Ashley has all of a baby”s needs, including being entertained and engaged, and she calms at the sounds of family voices. Furthermore, given Ashley”s mental age a nine and a half year old body is more appropriate and more dignified than a fully grown female body.
Apparently the thumping the president received on 7 November didn’t take and he’s right back to his high-handed, decider-and-chief antics. I suppose it’s no more than we expected after the way he tossed aside the Baker-Hamilton report (daddy’s advisers aren’t going to tell this president what to do, no siree bob). Hat tip to The Carpetbagger Report.
Now the president want to read your mail: without a warrant.
Ah, those pesky signing statements. You just never know what White House lawyers will quietly put in there.
President Bush has quietly claimed sweeping new powers to open Americans” mail without a judge”s warrant, the Daily News has learned.
The President asserted his new authority when he signed a postal reform bill into law on Dec. 20. Bush then issued a “signing statement” that declared his right to open people”s mail under emergency conditions.
That claim is contrary to existing law and contradicted the bill he had just signed, say experts who have reviewed it.
Bush”s move came during the winter congressional recess and a year after his secret domestic electronic eavesdropping program was first revealed. It caught Capitol Hill by surprise.
I suspect the president”s supporters will argue that terrorists might send mail, and law enforcement officials need to be able to review that mail in order to keep Americans safe.
That”s true, but a) there”s already a legal mechanism in place to intercept suspicious mail; and b) it”s beside the point. As Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the incoming House Government Reform Committee chairman, who co-sponsored the bill, explained, “Despite the President”s statement that he may be able to circumvent a basic privacy protection, the new postal law continues to prohibit the government from snooping into people”s mail without a warrant.”
The closer one looks at the signing statement, the worse it looks.
I thought Conservatives were all about getting government out of our lives. And if anyone spews the “if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear” line, I’ll smack them.
Doug Templeton: I’ve just recently returned from the beautiful and fruitful area of Afghanistan known as Kandahar. By beautiful I’m refering to the view from 25,000 feet as I sped away, and by fruitful I mean the ever-growing and popular crop known as the Poppy. Also known as 60% of Afghanistan’s GNP, of which the government gets 0%. I traveled there to train the Afghan…
When it comes to voting I’m a Luddite. Forget the feckin’ touch screens; toss out the optical scanners; trash every voting machine you can get your hands on. If Canada and England and a whole bunch of other countries can use paper ballots and hand counts, so can we. I don’t care if it takes a week to get results. Instant gratification is not good.
From this morning’s New York Times:
A laboratory that has tested most of the nation”s electronic voting systems has been temporarily barred from approving new machines after federal officials found that it was not following its quality-control procedures and could not document that it was conducting all the required tests.
The company, Ciber Inc. of Greenwood Village, Colo., has also come under fire from analysts hired by New York State over its plans to test new voting machines for the state. New York could eventually spend $200 million to replace its aging lever devices.
Experts on voting systems say the Ciber problems underscore longstanding worries about lax inspections in the secretive world of voting-machine testing. The action by the federal Election Assistance Commission seems certain to fan growing concerns about the reliability and security of the devices.
The commission acted last summer, but the problem was not disclosed then. Officials at the commission and Ciber confirmed the action in recent interviews.
Ciber, the largest tester of the nation”s voting machine software, says it is fixing its problems and expects to gain certification soon.
Experts say the deficiencies of the laboratory suggest that crucial features like the vote-counting software and security against hacking may not have been thoroughly tested on many machines now in use.
“What”s scary is that we”ve been using systems in elections that Ciber had certified, and this calls into question those systems that they tested,” said Aviel D. Rubin, a computer science professor at Johns Hopkins.
Yeah, it’s scary. Save a few billion dollars. Give me hand-counted paper ballots.
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
OL’ SPOT
A group of country neighbors wanted to get together on a regular basis and socialize. As a result, about 10 couples formed a dinner club and agreed to meet for dinner at a different neighbors’ house each month. Of course, the lady of the house was to prepare the meal.
When it came time for Jimmy and Susie Brown to have the dinner at their house, like most women, Susie wanted to outdo all the others and prepare a meal that was the best that any of them had ever lapped a lip over. A few days before the big event, Susie got out her cookbook and decided to have mushroom smothered steak. When she went to the store to buy some mushrooms, she found the price for a small can was more than she wanted to pay.
She then told her husband, “We aren’t going to have mushrooms, because they are too expensive.”
He said, “Why don’t you go down in the pasture and pick some of those mushrooms? There are plenty of them right in the creek bed.”
She said, “No, I don’t want to do that, because I have heard that wild mushrooms are poison.”
He then said, “I don’t think so. I see the varmints eating them all the time and it never has affected them.”
After thinking about this, Susie decided to give this a try and got in the pickup and went down in the pasture and picked some. She brought the wild mushrooms back home and washed them, sliced and diced them to get them ready to go over her smothered steak. Then she went out on the back porch and got Ol’ Spot’s (the yard dog) bowl and gave him a double handful. She even put some bacon grease on them to make them tasty.
Ol’ Spot didn’t slow down until he had eaten every bite. All morning long, Susie watched him and the wild mushrooms didn’t seem to affect him, so
she decided to use them.
The meal was a great success, and Susie even hired a lady from town to come out and help her serve. She had on a white apron and a little cap on
her head. It was first class.
After everyone had finished, they all began to kick back and relax and socialize. The men were visiting and the women started to gossip a bit. ?About this time, the lady from town came in from the kitchen and whispered in Susie’s ear. She said, “Mrs. Brown, Spot just died.”
With this news, Susie went into hysterics. After she finally calmed down, she called the doctor and told him what had happened.
The doctor said, “It’s bad, but I think we can take care of it. I will call for an ambulance and I will be there as quick as I can get there. We will pump out everyone’s stomach and everything will be fine. Just keep them all there and keep them calm.”
It wasn’t long until they could hear the wail of the siren as the ambulance was coming down the road. When they got there, the EMTs got out with their suitcases and a stomach pump and the doctor arrived shortly thereafter. One by one, they took each person into the master bedroom and pumped out their stomach.
After the last one was finished, the doctor came out and said, “I think everything will be fine now, and he left.”
They were all looking pretty peaked sitting around the living room, and about this time, the town lady came in and said, “You know, that fellow
that ran over Ol’ Spot never even stopped.”
My name is Jeff Hess and I’m a biblioholic. I own hundreds of books. Not valuable books, mostly Science Fiction paperbacks and text books, tomes rescued by the bag from library book sales. A few years ago, in the interest of not burying myself, I began reading more books from the library and taking notes. My electronic chapbook was born.
This is a passage I copied from Labyrinths: Walking Toward The Center by Gernot Candolini.
The path out of the labyrinth is less spectacular. From the perspective of the world obsessed with expansion, it”s even a path of descent, a path on which one no longer pulls off any great achievements. It”s a path that men in particular have a hard time taking. p. 131
[In the story of Pardes, four entered, ascended, but only one returned. The other three were lost or destroyed. Is this parallel to Candolini”s observation? JH]
It’s been a busy week in Wally World: the Universe’s source of cheap plastic crap. On The Writing On The Wal — the blog USA Today says should be on its readers’ radar — Jonathan Rees, Robert Feinman and I continue our work dedicated to drawing back the curtain on the Bentonvile Behemoth’s corporate disinformation and other flackery.
A NEXT GEN OF NOT-A-WAL-MART-SHOPPERS… From the Letters To The Editor page of this morning”s Emira, New York, Star-Gazette: Hats off to Elmira Free Academy student William Moore for his well-researched, well-thought out and well-presented treatise on the Wal-Mart “scandal.” Keep reading…
HUNKERING DOWN… Did Wal Mart”s War Room help to create a bunker mentality? A year-end story in the Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Commercial suggests that that might be the case for the Bentonvile Behemoth. From Turmoil around Wal-Mart… in this morning”s paper: Keep reading…
AN INDEX OF ITS OWN… It”s not unusual for Wall Street to track industries as a whole and to follow the way the companies involved influence each other, but never before has it pegged such an index to a single company and the way its suppliers perform. Keep reading…
DOES ANYONE REMEMBER $4 GENERIC DRUGS…? Remember the roll-out that wouldn”t end? Remember the interminable press conferences? Douglas A. McIntyre at BloggingStocks does and he asks the question: Has Wal-Mart”s $4 drug program begun to lose gas? Keep reading…
WAL MART IS WHAT MADE AMERICA GREAT… Go watch…
WAL MART GO HOME… Blogger and business consultant Niti Bhan has some advice for Wal Mart and its plans to tap the more than 1 billion shoppers in India: Go back to where you came from – not in terms of leaving India, but in terms of your company”s heritage and roots. Keep reading…
THE CHARLES FISHMAN LECTURE… Go watch…
LEOPARD, SPOTS… WAL MART, CHEAP CRAP… There is a myth that we can, with dedication and focus, reinvent anyone and anything. Politicians are constantly trying to reinvent themselves to follow the wind; and businesses churn their images to grab and hold onto that top-of-mind awareness. Keep reading…
AT THE WALLY PLEX… There are sound stages on Hollywood”s back lots smaller than Bentonvile”s behemoths, so it”s no surprise that budding video talent has been sneaking cameras in at odd hours. And now for the midnight show at the Wally Plex featuring Mookieisms. Keep reading…
WHICH CIRCLE DO YOU SUPPOSE THIS IS…? My co-blogger Jonanthan Rees has closely followed the art buys of Alice Walton of late, but here”s one piece from North Carolina artist Kate Kretz that I imagine Alice will decide doesn”t suit her refined tastes. That”s too bad. Keep reading…
AD AGE PREDICITING CMO SHAKE-UP… Wal Mart”s Chief Marketing Officer John Fleming may be taking a lateral promotion; to a position in merchandising, according to a story in this morning”s Ad Age. 2006 was not a good year for Fleming. And somebody has to take the fall. Keep reading…
THE GIFT THAT JUST KEEPS GIVING… More than 50 days after their existence was brought to Wal Mart”s attention, the Nazi t-shirt signage is still in place. After reading this story at The Consumerist, I stopped into my local Wal Mart to see if the signage is still there. It is. Keep reading…
From Jami Gibbs: It’s kind of a relief that the holidays are over. Someone put it well here when he said, “Now all we have to get through is Easter and Independence Day. And those holidays won’t be nearly as hard as this was.” So very true. I worked both Christmas and New Year’s Eve. The usual 12-hour shift. On Christmas, I walked into work at 0700 and like clockwork…
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
Sometimes name calling isn’t swearing…
I pause in this moment at the beginning of my old age
and I say a prayer of gratitude for getting to this evening
a prayer for being here, today, now, alive
in this life, in this evening, under this sky.
From WINTER: TONIGHT: SUNSET by David Budbill.
My name is Jeff Hess and I’m a biblioholic. I own hundreds of books. Not valuable books, mostly Science Fiction paperbacks and text books, tomes rescued by the bag from library book sales. A few years ago, in the interest of not burying myself, I began reading more books from the library and taking notes. My electronic chapbook was born.
This is a passage I copied from Labyrinths: Walking Toward The Center by Gernot Candolini.
Great heroes don”t necessarily make great lovers. Love, though, is always the higher goal. It”s the most precious thing to be gained, the only thing that makes life worthwhile.
In a sense, the labyrinth has two paths: the path in and the path out. Two fitting names for these paths now occur to me. I call the way in “the path of the hero,” and the path out “the path of love.” The way in the path to the center, is the path toward a goal I want to reach. But what good is a goal if I haven”t won it in my heart, if it doesn”t lead me back to love?
…some people who have walked the many miles to Santiago or to Rome speak of a great inner emptiness on the day after the triumph. Many climb aboard a train or a plane, returning home by the most direct path available …just as some who walk the labyrinth exit straight out from the center. Perhaps these sojourners rob themselves of the path back. p. 114
This evening I received the following letter in the form of a comment to a blog post that was 18 months old. It’s a long letter and it rambles quite a bit. It’s the kind of letter that a newspaper would seriously edit for length and clarity. But I don’t have a space problem and any clarity issues are Mr. Cassidy’s to deal with. What do you think?
Does anyone want to hear the real story behind why the city is at fault for residency being abolished by state lawmakers. I am just one example there are many.
I am a Cleveland firefighter affected by this residency law. My name is Mark Cassidy and I work and used to live in the city. I was a resident for 37 years.
My wife and I built our new home at 3358 Rocky River Dr. Cleveland, Ohio. This was built on an old fill site with many construction hurdles and cost over runs. When we started everyone thought we were crazy. We proceeded anyway. Our thoughts were we could raise our children in this great community with a great school system (OLA) and get old and gray happily.
Prediction No. 1: Joel Stein’s emailbox has already crashed the Los Angeles Times email system. Prediction No. 2: a lot of bloggers are going to be up in arms because of Stein’s attitude toward people sending him emails. How much does Stein not want people to send him email? Ho boy, does he not want people to send him emails.
From this morning’s LA Times:
That address on the bottom of this column? That is the pathetic, confused death knell of the once-proud newspaper industry, and I want nothing to do with it. Sending an e-mail to that address is about as useful as sending your study group report about Iraq to the president.
Here’s what my Internet-fearing editors have failed to understand: I don’t want to talk to you; I want to talk at you. A column is not my attempt to engage in a conversation with you. I have more than enough people to converse with. And I don’t listen to them either. That sound on the phone, Mom, is me typing.
Some newspapers even list the phone numbers of their reporters at the end of their articles. That’s a smart use of their employees’ time. Why not just save a step and have them set up a folding table at a senior citizen center with a sign asking for complaints?
That’s how much Stein doesn’t want to hear from his readers.
And you know what? That’s OK with me, because I don’t read Stein’s columns; he doesn’t say anything of interest to me. So let him pound the keyboard in peace. Don’t email him. Don’t call him. Don’t stop him in the street. Let him be happy talking at you.
I’ll stick with people who want to have a conversation.
It is all about the conversation.
Mike Royko is, no doubt, throwing beer glasses at the back bar in the Heavenly Billy Goat.
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
One morning a husband took a pair of underwear out of the drawer. “What the ? ? ?” he said to himself as a little “dust” cloud appeared when he shook them out.
“April,” he hollered into the bathroom, “why did you put talcum powder in my underwear?”
She shot back: “It’s not talcum powder. It’s ‘Miracle Grow’.”
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