April 2009

Real Estate: Looking up?

April 13, 2009

Sandy and Bill Goodheart, the Realtors who for years have dominated my part of town (Bill Goodheart actually built a fair amount of the neighborhood), send out a sporadic real estate newsletter to their clients. For many a moon, the news has been pretty glum. This month, though, they report some indications that real estate [...]

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DIY Deodorant

April 12, 2009

Moving on from the Great Desert University to ever so much more important topics, check out this recipe for homemade deodorant. Came across the link at Over the Cubicle Wall, a site whose proprietor seems to be a person after my own heart, via Frugal Scholar‘s blogroll. Like the whole DIY destinker idea. I’m allergic [...]

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Laughingstock postscript

April 12, 2009

Our Beloved Leader has circulated a memo about the Obama snubbing. It contains this wording: Since my appointment [as president of the Great Desert University] we have not awarded honorary degrees to sitting politicians, a practice based on the very practical realities of operating a public university in our political environment. We have not offered [...]

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GDU Defends Status as Champion Laughingstock of North America

April 11, 2009

LOL! You have to be here to appreciate how ludicrously typical this is. Colleagues are still hooting with ecstatic hilarity (heaven knows we have little enough to laugh at around that place) over columnist Gail Collins’s choice words: Obama’s round of spring events will culminate in appearances at graduation ceremonies in Notre Dame (where the [...]

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Light rail is AWESOME!

April 11, 2009

So yesterday as a lark SDXB and I rode the city’s new light rail train from uptown Phoenix to the end of the line in Mesa; thenon the return legdropped off in Tempe for lunch at the Great Desert University’s new “local foods” café. What a hoot! The trains, being brand-new, are clean and shiny. [...]

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Economy is all about politics

April 11, 2009

Once again, we’re brought back to a raw fact: economy is politics, politics economy. The Arizona state legislature’s response to the state budget crisis engendered by the collapse of the Bush economy has been pigheaded beyond belief. Elected leaders here, brought into office before the recent national changeover in leadership and set free to work [...]

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