Probably not.
My neighbor just informed me (after I made the mistake of telling him that I was going to keep honey bees) that he has “really bad anti-falactic shock to bee stings.”  I can only assume that he was asserting that he would go into anaphylactic shock if he were to be stung by one [...]

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I just got an email from my very nice neighbor trying to raise support for Earth Hour.  Again, my blog, I get to be super-duper cynical on it.
I hate this kind of thing.
Earth Hour is supposed to be “a statement of concern about our planet and climate change.”  So, we all turn our lights out [...]

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I’ll admit that I was a little late ordering my Christmas presents.  A) I’m not a Christian, and B) The whole “consumer’s Christmas” schtick is a little nauseating.  Still, not to be a total grinch and to help stave off the inevitable collapse of our economy, I ordered some crap.  Call it peer pressure.
It was [...]

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Sorry, I can’t help myself.  Don’t read this.  Stop right now.
You’re still reading.  Stop.  It’s just my own political whining.
Fine.  Whatever.  Read.  I don’t care.
Remember Henry Clay?  No?  JFK said he was one of the five greatest senators of all time.  Why?  Compromise.  Lincoln (a senator from Illinois, no less) thought Clay was awesome.  Those [...]

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WARNING: This has nothing whatsoever to do with gardens, food, or chickens.
I’ve been an Obama supporter from early on.  I was impressed with his willingness to step up in his first term to oppose the war and stick to that position.  I was impressed when he started actually making nuanced statements about race relations and [...]

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