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December 2005
Watching the Pickle Drop
Saturday, 31 December 2005 1:54 P GMT-05
Happy New Year!
In keeping with various news-shows, talk shows, websites and so on, we here at Swamp Yankee Wannabes will now detail the Best of LARC 2005:
1) New Zealand. Last year we skipped Christmas entirely, and went halfway acros
All the News that's Wrong to Print
Thursday, 29 December 2005 7:59 A GMT-05
My mom, my aunt, Lionel and I were discussing the PETA "daddy kills fish" story a few weeks ago, and my mom, apparently forgetting where she'd read about it, quoted something that could only have come from here. Since I made the major
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Heat Wave
Wednesday, 28 December 2005 7:50 A GMT-05
No kidding- it's going to be in the 40's today. We haven't had a 40 degree day in nigh unto 90 days or so. What does this mean for the future of winter as we know it? Nothing--we often have a January Thaw this time of year. But it s
The Dishwasher Diaries
Tuesday, 27 December 2005 7:41 A GMT-05
Yesterday we were planning on cleaning the house in preparation for New Year: we had planned on having some friends over for dinner on Friday night. So naturally we decided to install our new dishwasher instead.
We expected a few hiccups; the
Christmas Time in the City
Monday, 26 December 2005 10:27 A GMT-05
A New Hampshire Yankee goes to the Big City
Biting the Big Bad Apple
Thursday, 22 December 2005 7:42 A GMT-05
Cities and I don't really get along too well. I don't like them and they don't like me. But they do have neat stuff in them that they just don't stick out in the countryside for easy, back road access, such as the Metropolitan Museum of A
The Enemy Within
Wednesday, 21 December 2005 7:40 A GMT-05
Perhaps the revelation that Bush felt he could spy on people without authorization from either Congress or the special Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court surprised some people, but it didn't surprise me. Bush has been acting like a dictato
Bling Update
Monday, 19 December 2005 7:48 A GMT-05
The answer is: Lionel and I are out of it.
We're still not sure what Bling is. But it has apparently made its way out of hip hop and into teenage girl talk and also into 'blog world (which likes to shorten things and therefore shortene
Random acts of bling
Sunday, 18 December 2005 11:01 A GMT-05
Since the Family will be scattered all over creation for the actual Twelve Twenty Five, we spent last night at my mom's house exchanging presents with my mother and my aunt and the dog and the cat. As usual, the dog cleaned up. The rest o
Offenseless Americanization
Friday, 16 December 2005 7:47 A GMT-05
Every culture has its own idea of what is funny, and the Simpsons is distinctly American. So why would you try to air the Simpsons in Arabic?
While I was in Israel on an archaeological dig we stayed at the guest house for an observant Jewish s
PETA
Thursday, 15 December 2005 7:46 A GMT-05
PETA lets women off the hook:
A spokeswomyn for Womyn's Supremacy condemned PETA for their recent "comicbook" for kids, intended to teach kids the horrors of fishing and that fish are people too. "This comic is an insult to all
Chestnuts Roasting, Sleigh Bells Ringing, I'll be Home for Christmas.
Wednesday, 14 December 2005 7:23 A GMT-05
It was easily the coldest night of the year so far last night, just in time for the upcoming First Day of Winter, and I'd built a fire in the fireplace and settled down to watch a movie. It seems I'd read Lionel's mind. He came home and t
Happy News
Tuesday, 13 December 2005 7:37 A GMT-05
Even a news junky such as myself gets tired of all the blood, guts, sex and mayhem which makes up the mainstream media. So imagine my delight when I came across this.
Even potentially distressing stories like voting in Iraq gets a positiv
Happy Holidays
Monday, 12 December 2005 7:46 A GMT-05
Long ago I stopped buying Christmas Cards which said "Merry Christmas" on them. I happen to celebrate Christmas, but purely as a secular holiday. And if I wasn't going to acknowledge the Mass of Christ, I wasn't going to foist i
Snow
Saturday, 10 December 2005 10:58 A GMT-05
We've had a few practice runs but yesterday was finally "it". About a foot of the white stuff came down, naturally between the hours of 7 and 5, making everyone's commute miserable. Those of us who chose to go to work, anyway.&n
Being Smarter than Everyone Else
Friday, 9 December 2005 7:52 A GMT-05
Recently Ann Coulter was forced off the stage at UConn shortly after commenting " I love to engage in repartee with people who are a lot stupider than I am." She then showed just how smart she is by coming up with Anne Coulter Gems:
Cut and Run
Thursday, 8 December 2005 7:53 A GMT-05
Using his own form of guerrilla warfare by retreating from the opposing masses and only making select and scripted appearances in front of mostly military audiences who have no choice but to follow their Commander In Chief, Bush has been trying
Electric Obsessive Disorder
Wednesday, 7 December 2005 7:27 A GMT-05
Illuminaphoma? Wattomania? What would you call it?
Locked in
Tuesday, 6 December 2005 7:50 A GMT-05
We've lived in this house, collectively (meaning a family member has occupied the house continuously, not that I am many-in-one) for probably 25 years. Just last year we finally noticed that the door we use most frequently was actually put on u
Zen of the Tree
Monday, 5 December 2005 6:57 A GMT-05
Even though we're not going to be here for Christmas, we decided to have a Christmas tree this year. For a few years Lionel accompanied me on this expedition, but he quickly tires of romping in all directions in search of the tree. O
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Sunday, 4 December 2005 11:59 P GMT-05
Why? Because we have to.
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