It’s Saint Patrick’s Day Eve, which means that in Wichita, and hundreds of other cities around this great Irish nation of ours, people have already started getting drunk. Can you blame them? You don’t want St. Paddy’s Day to dawn without being three sheets to the wind, thoroughly in the bag, blasted, blotto, bombed and besotted. Sure, it’s the middle of the week. But any time’s the […]

Like most people, one of the first things I do in the morning is go online and look at the news. Usually just the headlines are enough; those five or six words are all I need to know about, say,  the progress of health care or the latest natural disaster. Stories like that, there’s no reason to delve for further details. But I’m sometimes appalled by the […]

Is it the middle of March already? Guess it’s time to update the blog, which keeps registering tiny anomalies on the ECG even when it’s unplugged. Kind of like my life these days. Not that I have anything particularly interesting to impart. But let’s try:  Just watched the latest Rickie Gervais movie, The Invention of Lying. My short review: Don’t bother. It’s based on a single airy […]

I signed on to Gmail this morning and was greeted by an invitation to join Buzz, Google’s bold foray into the social media wasteland. Naturally, I joined up. So let’s see: I now have a presence on Facebook, Posterous, Twitter, Yahoo, Blogspot, WordPress, Flickr, PicasaWeb and Walgreen’s. And Buzz. I’m sure I’m forgetting some. One of these days, I’m going to look at my list of “friends” […]