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Bridle path

Monday, March 1st, 2010

In reading this sad story about the suicide of the guy from the TV show Growing Pains, the FoxNews.com story says “…was discovered by a search team on ‘bridal path’ in Stanley Park”

It’s bridle path, not “bridal path”.  It’s a horse trail, more or less.  I’m a city boy and I know that.

Happy Holid… I mean Merry Christmas

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Saw this posted by Andy McCarthy at NationalReview.com

To All My Liberal Friends:  

Please accept with no obligation, implied or explicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2010, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere. Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee.

To All My Conservative Friends:
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

The Sweet Spot

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

I enjoy reading Rob Neyer’s Sweet Spot blog

Obama wins Nobel peace prize? Seriously?

Friday, October 9th, 2009

Barack Obama wins the Nobel peace prize?  Even Saturday Night Live admitted Obama had accomplished not a whole lot so far as president.  Exactly what peace did he create, negotiate, contribute to or extend?

Basically Obama gets the Nobel prize for a player to be named later.

Crystal

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Crystal is my friend but Crystal is crazy!

I wanna work for AIG

Monday, March 16th, 2009

OK – all the predictable outrage about AIG and this one hundred and fifty-plus million dollars going towards executive bonuses. Isn’t this the sort of thing we should have figured out…before we gave them the money?

If this isn’t evidence that TARP was just some hastily thrown together crap that nobody really understood, I don’t know what is.

Stadium Transformations

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

These, to me, are interesting – time-lapse shots of stadiums or arenas changing from one event to another.

Labatt Center – hockey to monster truck

Superbowl XLII from setup to loadout

American Airlines Center – Dallas – Dancing with the Stars to bull riding to basketball to a concert

The Sapporo Dome – Sapporo, Japan  – from baseball to soccer.  The pitcher’s mound is lowered into the ground and the soccer field is brought in on a cushion of air.

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Sunday, February 22nd, 2009


IMG00364.jpg, originally uploaded by jhbutcher.

Chicken curry at Mak Chin’s.
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Denny’s late night

Thursday, February 19th, 2009


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11:30 pm breakfast

A discerning snake

Thursday, February 12th, 2009


IMG00359.jpg, originally uploaded by jhbutcher.