Idle Musings

Our city is doing sewer separation to keep the storm run-off from filling the sewer pipes and overwhelming the water treatment plant in the ...

Something amazing happened this past week. For the first time in the history of our nation -240 years, 12 generations- a woman has been nomi...

I haven't posted in ages. And I'm posting now, not because I have something profound to say, and not because others have not articul...

I caught this chest cold crap that is going around. (Why do we say "caught"? I have to work pretty hard to catch a ball or a frisb...

For those of you trying to "understand" transgender: You don't need to understand it. It's a real thing that exists. Yo...

I think Mother Nature made snow so beautiful so we wouldn't get so pissed off when it falls in April. 

giving Circus Peanuts a bad name.

So with the protests and violence spilling over in Chicago and actually canceling a Trump rally there, Rachel Maddow did a piece (non-autop...

I am so disheartened by the "yuge" numbers of people supporting Donald Trump that I haven't had the heart to post anything muc...

Last year on this day, I reminded you of all the spectacular things that happened on February 17th in history. This year, I'll just rem...

You know what's fun?      Seeing people I knew way-back-when become successful. Nice job to Dave Hansen on his bazillionth successful ...

Here's a tidbit of American history for you: black men got the Constitutional right to vote a full FIFTY YEARS before women (of any colo...

I've read more than a few opinions in the past few days from other feminists defending their support for Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clint...

Yesterday was the first day of the Lunar New Year (fire monkey, for those of you keeping score at home). Today is Fat Tuesday. Between the ...

19 days later... I was away on a fact-finding mission. I've been trying to find someone who actually thinks Donald Trump would be a go...

I can tell it's winter because my flannel pajama bottoms are sticking to my legs.

David Bowie and his wife married in 1992 and have one daughter. Just like LSH and I. We have SO MUCH in common!! RIP, Mr. Jones. You will ...

Why is it so easy to binge? I don't mean due to access, although we are lucky enough to have at our fingertips, access to entire TV show...

Did your true love give you 12 drummers today? "XRF 12days" by Xavier Romero-Frias - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via...

Happy New Year! I resolve this year to figure out a way to get Bingu kitty to chew his treats instead of swallowing them whole.