We’re Making a Better World
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Nostalgia, Oddly Not Satire
Could someone pleeeeze…Mycroft or maybe Drumwaster (you seem a math-y type, as well)…calculate for me exactly how long before the hippies are extinct? (Be sure to watch the vid down at the bottom of that post, it’s priceless.) I’ve always liked Jon Stewart, especially after he handed Tucker Carlson his little bowtie back all done [...]
Tags: only in california, use your head, video clip
The Outer Limits
Posted by Joan of Argghh | Filed under Do It Yourself, Guest Authors, Nostalgia
(Guest blogger: Joan of Arggh! from Primordial Slack) Once upon a time, we lived outside the U.S. for almost five years. As a family, we fully adopted our alien land, learned its language, loved its people, hated its traffic, but always understood that we were guests in an amazing, overcrowded, ancient city. We also learned [...]
Tags: earn it, How-To, self-reliance, use your head
“Tear Down This Wall,” and Other Moments of Which *I* am Proud
Posted by Ted Bronson | Filed under Nostalgia
Reagan stood in Berlin, Germany on June tenth of 1987 and challenged Gorby to “tear down this wall.” In August of that same year, back home the FCC was allowing capitalism and the First Amendment to finally work together by getting rid of the Fairness Doctrine. In October, Jesse Jackson announced his plans to run [...]
Tags: Heroes, patriotism
Happy Presidents Day
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Nostalgia
Today is the day we honor the birth of our first president. Oh, and Abraham Lincoln. And Thomas Jefferson. And basically every other president a state or retailer sees fit to honor. Anyway. Commercialism and state-favoritism aside, we thought some Presidential Trivia would be nice today: Who served as president for only one day? Which [...]
The, “Just, Great!” Society
Posted by Joan of Argghh | Filed under Decision Eh, Nostalgia
(Guest blogger: Joan of Arggh! from Primordial Slack) Someone in a discussion forum I stumbled into early this morning had posted a comment to the effect, “why do we Democrats like Republicans so much more than Republicans like Democrats?” Could it be that Republicans are likable? Of course we are. We’ve done more “reaching out” [...]
Tags: election
Sundays with Dad
Posted by Ted Bronson | Filed under Nostalgia
When I was a boy, probably about nine or ten, Dad took us to what would become the Valhalla of our young lives: the hobby store. Dad was a great believer in hobbies. He could paint, built model train layouts, and even built several different styles of loom and would weave things, by hand, that [...]
Tags: things my dad taught me
