Exile in Portales

Like this: "Meatless" MEATballs?  What's the point?  Not to flog dead draft animals or anything, but I'll bet what ...

From the study window at 1045 hrs: I'm SO not ready for this: snow for the second time in the last three days.  The damned leav...

"We have too much stuff," sez one guy.  What an incredible bunch of uninformed, gullible, and likely unwashed people.  And they...

The comments on this twit-pic are pretty interesting. In other news... we're still waiting for the other shoe to drop when it c...

Ramirez, first. The man has a point.  And then there's this: Hockey soda?  Really?  And what does "pro STYLE" reall...

So, the Keurig.  When I went to brew my first cup this morning it made several interesting and non-standard noises and then just fuckin...

The post title is a quote from a former co-worker and friend whom I respected.  Whenever this woman encountered an unpleasant situation or ...

Well, sorta on Part II of the post title.  Last Wednesday I mentioned that my spiffy Keurig machine had apparently lost its feeble lil min...

Even the Occasional Gentle Reader knows I steal stuff from Shoebox... prolly a lot more than I should.  So then we see this on the Shoebox ...

From The Usual Source of the political 'toons ya see here from time to time... Everything old is new again, eh?  Today's ...

It's easy to spot the grade-school dropouts in life.  They're the ones who can't... or won't... color within the lines....

What am I missing here? Something?  Anything? Yet another movie I won't be seeing.  One wonders how Hollywood manages to make any...

Anyone who's ever had to deal with dumb-ass mission statements will appreciate this:   I think Al hit ALL the buzzwords.  Apropos o...

I tried that this very morning... it doesn't work.  I'm still old.  But I DID manage to get out of bed... so much for the day...

OK, Google... we get it: you're eclectic, diverse, and multi-culti to a fuckin' fault.  But just STOP with these soccer doodles...

It's the first o' the month... aka "Mother's Day," as in "pay this mother, pay that mother"... so we spent ...

Yup.  Just what every Zuckerberg wannabe needs, at a Zuckerberg price.

Well, that's true as far as EIP goes today.  Shorter: it's a re-run for you, Sparky. Friday, July 10, 2009 Irresponsible.....

Oh, Boy... do I EVER hate it when this happens... Saturday, May 18, 2013 Saturday... ... got off to a rocky start.  I oversle...

Ramirez got that right.  In other news... we're near a new "personal best" when it comes to sloth and indolence, what w...