Monthly Archives: March 2011

The march of progress is often at the expense of something. Buggy whips are a good example- When Henry Ford rolled the first model t off the assembly line if you owned a buggy whip factory you probably could see … Continue reading →

Blog Post for Saturday 3/26/11 – 20 degrees. Spring is one week old tomorrow. Aggregate Saturday I am on West coast time. The NASCAR boys and girls are racing in California so my schedule more or less conforms to PST. … Continue reading →

The conspiracy theories are all true. Cars that run on water. Magic pills that cure disease. Diets that let you eat all you want of everything and lose weight. Area 51 is crawling with aliens. The pyramids were built by … Continue reading →

Blog Post for Friday 3/2/11 – 20 degrees at 6:11 am – kitchen heater on. As part of the class I am teaching, “Computers in Mass Media” we have a discussion every year about shorthand acronyms used in texting and … Continue reading →

You can be arrested for doing it in a public place. You will get dirty looks for doing it without buying something. And you will get turned down more often than a leper in a nudist colony. Sometimes just taking … Continue reading →

Blog Post for Thursday 3/24/11 – 27 degrees – just a light nuisance dusting of snow. School work Thursday So the assignment is to write an editorial making an assertion about the issue of ending the use of the R-word … Continue reading →

Muhamed Noor Che Musa has gotten married. He’s 33 and it’s his marriage and I am sure he is like every new husband in this world. Full of happiness and a little anxiety for his new life. Concerned for his … Continue reading →

Blog Post for Wednesday 3/23/11 – 30 degrees and has snowed at least 5″, is snowing now and is supposed to snow all day and maybe even snow heavier tonight. I have nothing. Nothing at all. Before I post the … Continue reading →

All of the nearly 200 have the same words. Reading them all over and over again is a mind numbing exercise but probably not as mind numbing as seeing your own property in the Luzerne County Sheriff’s sale flyer. I … Continue reading →

Pinetop Perkins, one of the last old-school bluesmen who played with Muddy Waters and became the oldest Grammy winner this year, died Monday at his home of cardiac arrest. He was 97. Pinetop Perkins Obit