Entries Tagged as ‘Random Thoughts’

December 4, 2007

This blog is still alive!

Sorry folks, I know posting has been light- really light.  But all of my efforts in the blogosphere have been going on at blogsforfredthompson.com, the link of which is to the right on my blogroll (where else would it be?).  I am posting under FDT08, for all those interested in reading my entries (surely numbering in the millions….and the [...]

June 19, 2007

Rush - Still The Band of the Millenium

A ways back, my favorite rock group- Rush- were named inducted into the Harvard National Lampoon as “Musicians of the Millenia”, supposedly besting their fellow competitors Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven, in what must have been a very close contest that was not settled until all the hanging chads were counted.  
In spite of all the hurt feelings of fans of [...]

May 29, 2007

Stay classy, Mexico….Not.

Well, it looks like civility and manners have left the building at the Miss Universe Pageant, being held in Mexico City, Mexico. Or perhaps they never were in the building in the first place. Throughout the week-long festivities leading up to the Miss Universe pageant last night, Miss USA, Rachel Smith, was booed and heckled for apparently no reason [...]

May 9, 2007

Jar Jar Binks, call your office….

George Lucas has called Spiderman 3 a “silly” movie.  Now, I havent seen the new Spiderman flick yet, but has George Lucas been watching his own flicks for the past, oh, say 10 years?  Talk about living in your own bubble….

April 28, 2007

War with Iran and its Proxies is Inevitable

I know that the above statement will never be uttered by any elected politician, particularly those politicians running for president in 2008; and very few pundits will put the same words into print, but since I am unconstrained by such niceties and electoral considerations, I will go on the record and say it.  Unless the present mullahcracy and [...]

April 23, 2007

Sheryl Crow’s Global War on Toilet Paper

Sheryl Crow, the renown songwriter/musician, but unrenowned scientist, has hatched a brilliant idea to combat Global Warming- she advises the great unwashed to reduce our usage of Toliet Paper to one sheet per visit, or as she further explains,  ”on those pesky occasions where two to three could be required”.
IMHO, there are no words to accurately describe the boundless absurdity of her advice,  [...]