Representative Alan Grayson (D-FL) reserved an hour to speak about health care. Republicans didn’t care for the way he was talking and unsuccessfully tried to cut off his speech. Alan Grayson has become my favorite Congressman. Please clone yourself, have your clone move to Kansas, and successfully run for Congress. Thanks. Via The Huffington Post.
Category Archives: Life
AARP and AMA Announce Support For House Health Care Bill
Apparently the AARP and the AMA have announced their support for the House of Representatives health care bill. Despite covering more people and lowering the US deficit, there doesn’t seem to be all that many groups announcing support for Health Care reform. Nice to see that starting to change a bit. Via CNN.com.
PGA Tour Golfer Banned for Doping
A PGA Tour golfer has been banned for doping. Uh, what? This is particularly odd when you see a picture of the guy, not very, uh, “doped” looking. Via CNN.com.
How to Take A Screen Shot
Jackie hey, I have a computer guy question James Asher so naturally you think of me Jackie How do I take a screen shot and save it as a jpeg Yes, I know no others James Asher what kind of computer are you on? windows i assume? Jackie windows James Asher XP? Jackie xp James …
iChat
On Friday, had my first video-chat via iChat. My dad is up in Montreal visiting his brother John and his wife Dal. After fiddling with iChat trying to get it to work, we ended up needing Dal to sign up for a free AIM account. I only have an AIM account and she only had …
That’s Funny
I received a phone call from my brother today. Here’s how it went: R: I’ve got a funny story to tell you. Me: Are you going to jail? R: No. Dad called me today. Me: Oh? What about. R. He was working on his truck today in the driveway and two patrol cars rolled up. …
Scrabulous
Have you heard of Scrabulous? It is a Facebook application that lets you play Scrabble. Fuck this game. It’s addictive. So much so that it has pretty much taken over my free time. When I come home from work, The Wife and I play pretty much until bedtime. I’ve played for five straight hours before. …
Cancelled
I just cancelled a credit card. I’m always nervous when I have to call one of my credit card companies. I don’t really know why I’m so apprehensive about the whole thing, but I always am. Regardless, I was happy to get rid of my Pier 1 card. Just writing that makes me laugh. I …
Well, At Least You Tried
So I’m at the bar playing poker and getting drunk when I realize the K-State men’s basketball game is on. It was some no-name team, Savannah State. Hailing from the great state of… Savannah1? Anyways. I didn’t think much of the game and went back to paying attention to my beer and poker. Until I …
Michael Vick
The Wife is an elementary school teacher. Over the weekend, we went to her school so we could put up the Christmas present I got her. While we were there I noticed a large grouping of student art on the wall. As I was casually looking it over, I noticed one in particular. I’ll describe …