March 2009

As the twig is bent…

March 21, 2009

…So the oak will grow, eh? Speaking of the Make It from Scratch Carnival, as we were in the last post, this week’s edition is hosted by Feels Like Home, whose “Grace’s Kitchen” feature addresses issues of children’s nutrition. This week she begins a discussion of how to fit a toddler’s diet into the present [...]

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Make It from Scratch Carnival coming this way

March 21, 2009

Don’t forget that Funny will host the wonderful Make It from Scratch Carnival on Tuesday. Be sure to submit your contributions through this convenient form at the carnival.

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Finding a human at a corporation that repels all boarders

March 20, 2009

Few things in modern life are more frustrating than navigating a punch-a-button telephone maze (these things are called “phone trees,” BTW) when you have a problem that needs the attention of a human being. By the time you reach an actual person, you’re peeved as all get-out. No matter how polite you try to force [...]

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WTF? Doesn’t anyone hear that alarm going off???

March 20, 2009

Hello? There’s an alarm shrieking. Is no one paying attention? The House has approved a NINETY PERCENT TAX for the sole purpose of punishing a corporation whose executives annoy us. Folks. The federal income tax is not intended to be used as a bludgeon.It may be against the law to use it that way. This [...]

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Tough times

March 19, 2009

Here’s a sign of the times: Greg the Handyman called yesterday to see if we were ready to line up him and his son to do some of the various chores at my house and M’hijito’s. In the course of chatting, he said the two of them were totally out of work. His son, a [...]

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‘Nother Moment

March 18, 2009

The Carnival of the Vanities is up at Dodgeblogium. Thôt I’d missed the boat, having seen an earlier edition and not noticed my squib about Life in the Big City—turns out it appears in today’s issue. Two separate essays ruminate on the nature of partisan politics at The Primate Diaries, pretty interesting. At Living the [...]

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