George Carlin - The difference between football and baseball

This was one of my favorite bits from George Carlin:
Baseball is different from any other sport, very different. For instance, in most sports you score points or goals; in baseball you score runs. In most sports the ball, or object, is put in play by the offensive team; in baseball the defensive team puts the [...]

Obama’s plan to stop speculators from driving up the price of oil

Here are excerpts from the text of the four-part “Obama Plan to Crack Down on Excessive Energy Speculation,” as provided by the campaign:
1) Fully Close the “Enron Loophole”: One of the reasons our energy market is particularly vulnerable to excessive speculation is the so-called “Enron Loophole” … [which means] Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is [...]

Cartooning off to a slow start

Okay, I admit it… I got a little over ambitious with blogging. I now have four blogs: this one, one for cartoons, one for plug-in cars, and one for software project management. That’s too much for someone who can’t even find time to clean off his desk, so I for the time being, I cut [...]

Tribute to Tim Russert on Meet the Press

We often take things in life for granted — friends, family, and the few good programs on TV. Meet the Press has been one of those few good programs and it something I looked forward to every Sunday morning.
This morning on Meet the Press was a tribute to Tim Russert. Many of the big names [...]

Dishonest surveys

I just received a call from a survey company. The caller told me that if the tax cuts from 2001 and 2003 were rolled back, average residents of Colorado would see an increase in their federal taxes of about $2000. He asked, “knowing that, do you favor making the tax cuts permanent?”
The purpose of this [...]

Tim Russert died today

Tim was one of my favorite reporter/commentators. He seemed like a good natured guy, but he didn’t take any crap from anyone. We saw that during Scooter Libby’s trial. He was honest and sincere. I never once thought I was getting spin from him.
Sunday mornings won’t be the same without him. He will be missed.

Seven Factors of Awakening

Many people who meditate have problems with monkey mind. Like a monkey swinging from branch to branch, their minds move from thought to thought. I’m no different, which is the motivation for this blog.
The three elements of the Noble Eightfold Path related to meditation are Right Effort, Right Concentration, and Right Mindfulness. It takes a [...]

Tips for getting a good night’s sleep

First of all, a little background on my sleep problems. I had bouts of insomnia through my teens and 20s, and it become a chronic problem in my 30s. I didn’t get any relief until three or four years ago. Regularly getting a good night’s sleep has improved my life immensely.
Here are some things that [...]

Empathy for Hillary Supporters

I’ve been critical of women who have been supporting Hillary Clinton in part because she’s a woman. They’ve overlooked her lies and bad decisions because they wanted a woman to be president.
This morning, my wife said something to me that made me understand. There has never been a woman president and women feel under-represented in [...]

Flying saucers in my back yard

I took this photo in my backyard this afternoon of two flying saucers.