]> http://greasy.com/drmaus/index.html drmaus's Blog en-us © 2008 Greasy.com All rights reserved. Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:56:55 GMT 30 http://greasy.com/drmaus/please_pray_family.html It is in the news somewhere. My little brother died falling at the Grand Canyon. Thu, 9 Oct 2008 01:27:57 GMT http://greasy.com/drmaus/cheney_vice_presidency.html Usually political books take some effort to read, but this one I'm reading almost as fast as a novel. Not quite so fast, because I have to slow down and re-read parts because they're stunning and horrible. The Barton Gellman book, Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency, is one I think George Bush should read, for an eye-opener. It begins with the 2000 election, when Cheney (already in close proximity to the campaign) was asked by Bush to head up the search for a VP. The method by which he did ... Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:42:24 GMT http://greasy.com/drmaus/yippee-ti-yi-yo_git_--.html Little doggies. It's your misfortune and none of my own. Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little doggies. You know that Wyoming will be your new home. Some boys they go up the trail just for pleasure. But that's where they get it awfully wrong. For nobody knows all the trouble they give us, as we go driving them all along. Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:10:28 GMT http://greasy.com/drmaus/knew_this_solve_.html If we knew how to do THIS -- then we could solve ALL our problems. 1. Figure out how to use the three seashells in the bathroom. (Judge Dredd) 2. Use only enough Shmoo for our needs, and still live productive lives. (Lil Abner) 3. Stop hoppin when the cereal's poppin. (Rice Krispies) 4. Handle Ice Nine safely. (Vonnegut) 5. Attach laser beams to sharks' heads. (Austin Powers) 6. Remember how to say "Klaatu barada nikto" at the right moment, or have the foresight to write it down. (Army of ... Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:47:37 GMT http://greasy.com/drmaus/greasy_bloggers_donate_chihuahua.html I'm not much of a blogger and don't have a lot of friends here. Neighborliness doesn't come easy to me, perhaps due to being a loner and maybe in my posts I'm not the kindest person. But I can certainly recognize kindness in other people.   This online community has a number of really good-hearted people. I am surprised at the constant friendliness so many of you show one another, and it doesn't seem artificial at all. And there's more to you. Without naming names, you have:   *wonderful ... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:08:04 GMT http://greasy.com/drmaus/poor_bristol.html On Tealstar's page the idea was tossed out to start an over/under bet on how long Bristol Palin's marriage(to-be) will last. It's tempting, really tempting. Especially considering that "marginally educated" groom and his Facebook assertion that he doesn't even want kids. I know of another young woman's marriage that was bet on like that -- and it was already doomed. It happened to be a female blogger who talked too much about her personal life. She had a big audience, and some detractors w ... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:38:28 GMT http://greasy.com/drmaus/land_things_different.html Sometimes I dream of a place where expectations are not met. I yearn for it... If only: Keebler cookies were common, gall were occasionally mitigated, and if only the Devil and the deep blue sea were right smack next to each other. Rocks were coincident with hard places so you didn't have to worry about getting stuck between them; you, me and the bedpost were never conspirators; pie became difficult. Lies did not come in packs, tissues or a web. Them without sin cast the last stone. Every ... Tue, 2 Sep 2008 08:30:47 GMT http://greasy.com/drmaus/tom-all-alones.html John McCain deserves to have a birthday which falls on the anniversary of the tragedy in New Orleans from hurricane Katrina. Anyone who would be eating cake with George Bush that year (or any year, in my own opinion) should feel sick misgivings each year when the dreaded dates approached. After reading James' post including a long list of sad statistics describing New Orleans today, I think of Dickens' Bleak House and the squalid street called Tom-All-Alone's, which was left to decay after ... Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:41:32 GMT http://greasy.com/drmaus/russia_united_states.html Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't Saakashvili done something similar to what Saddam Hussein did to Kuwait? Waited for the moment, then opportunistically invaded sovereign territory? That means Russia is acting out OUR role in that business, first rushing in to protect Ossetia (as we did for Kuwait) -- a good thing, because Ossetia had a humanitarian crisis -- then, going after the surrounding country for the oil running through it, for the strategic position Georgia holds in its region, ... Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:57:47 GMT http://greasy.com/drmaus/figuring_going_georgia.html Combine Ekyprogressive's post HERE -- and the audio by Rachel Maddow was really enlightening -- with Whereabouts' extended post HERE. However, I don't think now that Blackwater or Americans were there, although residents are saying that some soldiers had American insignias. Georgia's army has been built and supplied by the U.S. right down to their uniforms. Those men could be Georgians.. but their uniforms were described as black, and it makes sense that we would already have some people i ... Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:35:29 GMT http://greasy.com/drmaus/getting_old_complaint_no2.html I hardly listen to music, so when I do, I hate singers who fail to enunciate at all, although they are singing something very emotionally-laden and you gather that the words would explain what the hell the noise is all about. (Wow, I think I just aged 20 years with that sentence. What a Baba Yaga I'm becoming!) Or when it's rap, and supposedly the lyrics matter a lot more. For this reason, I really appreciate people like Chamillionaire -- whoever this is -- whose "Tryin to catch me ridin d ... Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:00:38 GMT http://greasy.com/drmaus/getting_old_complaint_no.html (Been complaining since birth but this is my new list.) 1. I REALLY HATE THE PACKAGING THEY NOW USE FOR -- Condiments: Heinz ketchup, for example, is beginning to be sold in a flattish squared plastic bottle, a type of bottle I associate with motor oil, not food. This older shape, pictured here, was okay, but then it got squarer. With the newer bottle, if you want to get all the ketchup out, you'd have to get a box cutter and hack it open, and scoop out what is clinging inside every corner ... Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:40:00 GMT http://greasy.com/drmaus/elie_wiesel.html At Borders I sat down in the cafe with books, but when I went to buy my coffee an employee gathered them to reshelve. So I had to find something else to read with my drink, some book on a shelf close by. Elie Wiesel jumped out at me in paperback. I read half of it just sitting there, because I couldn't stop. It was the book in which he describes his own and his family's capture and imprisonment in Auschwitz. What really got to me was his description of how unbelievably long his family and ... Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:52:54 GMT http://greasy.com/drmaus/raggmopp.html Definitive version! Sat, 9 Aug 2008 19:13:02 GMT http://greasy.com/drmaus/youtube.html The earlier version! RaggMopp Sat, 9 Aug 2008 18:45:49 GMT http://greasy.com/drmaus/try_again.html Well, I can't seem to embed YouTube. So here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7OfAAFbmfg&feature=related Sat, 9 Aug 2008 18:40:39 GMT http://greasy.com/drmaus/time_dance.html Hey! Didn't work! Sat, 9 Aug 2008 18:38:11 GMT http://greasy.com/drmaus/cicada_time.html It's now cicada time. They sit in the tops of the tallest trees and you can hear that patented buzzing as long as there's at least partial sun. They usually stay silent until August, making you forget they're there, and then suddenly the sound begins. They are so LOUD. Just now the ones outside have stopped. They must have gotten tired for the moment. When I was a kid I lived in a neighborhood full of huge willow trees complete with cicadas living and singing on top every summer. These tre ... Thu, 7 Aug 2008 17:31:24 GMT http://greasy.com/drmaus/john_mccain_sock_monkey.html I knew it was him because they were calling him Old Baldy. Sun, 3 Aug 2008 15:40:51 GMT http://greasy.com/drmaus/cook.html It seems to me that saltines used to come in a 4-block square with perforated lines and you could snap them into 4 and have enough to make 2 peanut-butter-and-jelly cracker sandwiches. This sleeve of single crackers business you get now is just... sad. Maybe graham crackers still come in 2 or 4-block pieces, but I don't eat those. And Stella Artois needs a screw-off cap. ....And that pretty much describes dinner tonight. Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:28:59 GMT