New phone

Don | January 29, 2006

Betty and I had been using Samsung X427 phones for about the last 2 years. They were ok, nothing fancy. Small flip phones that had a pretty color screen but if you wanted more than the 5 pictures that came with them you had to pay to download new ones. They had the same deal [...]

A short History of Mankind

Don | January 18, 2006

Humans existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunter/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer & would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in winter. The 2 most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The [...]

Did he or didn’t he?

Don | January 7, 2006

I’ve been hearing this quote on conservative talk shows for a while and I’ve always liked it. “If you’re 25 and not a Liberal then you haven’t got a heart, and if you’re 35 and not a Conservative then you haven’t got a brain.”   This has been attributed to Winston Churchill but it’s not [...]

Mine tragedy

Don | January 4, 2006

I blame Bush! Where was the National Guard? Why didn’t they show up immediately? I think it’s pretty clear this could have been prevented if Bush had been doing a better job. This just shows that Bush doesn’t care about white people. In fact I’m pretty sure the explosion was set by the same people [...]

Not the best New Year but..

Don | January 2, 2006

New Years eve day Betty woke up early with some chest pain. She decided she should go to the Emergency room so I took her to Northridge Hospital. They put her on an EKG and said her heart wasn’t beating quite right so they called her cardiologist. He wanted to keep her for observation so [...]