Shoulda Been Blogged, Knowing How It’d Make You Feel
A very Perry Christmas: (Link seen on Nice Deb courtesy of Ace of Spades HQ which I got to from the blogroll on Musings from Brian J. Noggle.)
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Critical Mass To Celebrate Anniversary, Beat Helpless Drivers
Here’s a nice, friendly fluff piece on tonight’s Critical Mass bike ride in San Francisco: Critical Mass celebrating 15 years of free-form bicycle advocacy: Tonight’s Critical Mass in San Francisco marks the 15th anniversary of the rebellious rolling ride that locally has propelled the bicycle movement into the political mainstream and globally has been copied […]
Good Book Hunting: September 22, 2007
Good Book Hunting: September 22, 2007 This week, we went exclusively to yard sales and the local elementary school PTO rummage sale. Here’s what we got: Click for full size A box of 94 comic books, including a number of Marvel mutant titles and GI Joe issues from the middle 1980s. They were marked a […]
Book Report: Be Happy! selected by Ann Danner (1972)
This book collects a bunch of quotations and a couple of poems about happiness. Eh. But the best part is the photos ca. 1972 of people in various states of happiness and 1970s dress. I highlighted some of them when I bought the book, but let me share a few others. They always bring a […]
Good Book Hunting: August 27, 2007
The annual book sale at the YMCA in Carondolet provides many people with the opportunity to expand their libraries at low cost. Most hardbacks are $1, but many are $.50, and the selection proves just a little short of overwhelming. We didn’t get a chance to make it down there this weekend, but fortunately for […]
What a Cute Little Library
What a cute little library. Of course, gentle reader, you know that we at MfBJN take great pleasure in the Noggle Library, but we like to see the kids these days accumulating books as best they can. Of course, as you know, I am only currently working on my 76th-79th book for the year, a […]
Robin Carnahan: Ghostwriter
In 2006, Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan’s office rejected two conservative-minded state ballot initiatives, but put four liberal-minded initiatives on the ballot. In 2007, Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan’s office might be rewriting a conservative-minded ballot initiative to hinder its passage. Joseph Stalin allegedly said, “It’s not who votes that counts. It’s who […]
Prosecutors Decide Alleged Murdered Didn’t Kill Victims Twice
Good news of a sort for this fellow; prosecutors are dropping half of the charges: Prosecutors on Thursday dropped four of eight first-degree murder counts against a suburban Chicago man accused of killing his wife and three children, saying they were focusing their case. So now the first degree murder counts line up with the […]
Good Book Hunting: June 9, 2007
As promised, my beautiful wife and I attended the St. Charles Book Fair this year for the third year in a row. Last year, my beautiful wife was also my very pregnant wife, so this marked the first time we ventured to the convention center was a trio instead of a duet. The book fair […]
Good Book Hunting: May 26, 2007
This weekend didn’t really yield any good book fairs, but I got some books anyway. We started the day by hitting some garage sales that boasted books. In 2007, a garage sale apparently boasts books if it has two books, one of which is a self-help book and the other is a microwave cookbook from […]
Your Rights Today
Because one’s inalienable rights fluctuate daily here in America, I thought I’d provide a quick cheatsheet of what is or is not allowed today, May 25, 2007. Please, go by the cheatsheet and do not try to reason out what the authorities will let you do from day to day nor try to apply common […]
Wilding On Two Wheels
Another Critical Mass in Berkeley, another attack on a motorist. Instead of a mother and her kids, this time the hooligans targeted a 70-year-old man: A Friday clash between a Berkeley minivan and Critical Mass bicyclists continued to generate conflict Monday as the van driver said the bicyclists placed bicycles under his front tire during […]
Someone Handled Their Loss to Detroit Badly
First, McLennan does some slashing, then Calgary loses. Then, the rampage: Flames rip through south St. Louis home. There is too much violence in hockey.
The Noggle Library: Update
In September 2003, I posted pictures of the Noggle library. As some time has elapsed since then and we have found a replacement for Honormoor that allows us to house more books without displacing any cats, let me boast upon the bookshelves we have now. A long view of the hardbacks I have read. Good […]
Great Minds Think Alike Redux
Great minds think alike, and so do mine and Kim du Toit’s: I’ve always liked Fred [Thompson], and I’m going to vote for him, if he runs. I hope he does. Official Draft Fred 08 Web site here. (Link to du Toit seen on Instapundit. One would have expected I would have found this post […]
I Can’t Wait For Joe Williams’ Review
I watched 300 on Tuesday night. Before the movie, in the 25 minutes of previews/commercials preceding the movie, the trailer for an upcoming film called Pathfinder played. Remember, friends, Joe Williams of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and others widely panned 300 as a jingoistic propoganda piece, and it was a stylized depiction of historical events. […]
Scenes from the Front Line in Homeland Security (II)
So I walked down to the Old Trees Recreational Complex to get a residency card so I can save $1 on ice skating sessions at the rink and save $10 on continuing education programs if I ever needed to learn how to line dance with the elderly. But that $1 per session, over the course […]
Who Spiked Bill McClellan’s Coffee With Truth Serum Again?
Bill McClellan say he’s glad the Post-Dispatch sucks, and now he admits: Most newspaper reporters are petty. We don’t make as much as the TV people make. Preach it, brother!
Book Report: Great Tales of Mystery & Suspense compiled by Bill Pronzini, Barry N. Salzberg, & Martin H. Greenberg (1994)
I can’t believe I read the whole thing. Sorry to be summoning forth the memory of old Alka Seltzer commercials, but zowie, this is a 601 page book. It’s an Anna Karenina-sized collection of mystery short stories. It’s a large collection of short stories, to be sure, but it’s a very good collection of short […]
Whitney Gould on The Nohl House
Remember when I wrote about the Milwaukee Witch’s House? Whitney Gould of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has an update.