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Bostonian by birth. Lived in Columbia longer than anyplace else. Diehard Red Sox/Patriots/Celtics/Bruins fan. Life member of Alpha Phi Omega. Life member of Alpha Kappa Psi. Karaoke junkie. Movie junkie. Camping junkie. Occasional whitewater rafter. Allergic to soy and corn. Competent in the kitchen. Hates mowing the lawn. Hates paying people to mow the lawn. Amateur photographer. Professional procrastinator. Me.
"Some people are like Slinky's. They're not good for anything, but they're fun to watch when you push them down the stairs." - unknown
"The human body is about 70% water. The rest is just fat and additives." - Red Green
"When they knock you down, not only do you have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time" - Carl Yastrzemski
"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." - Herman Goering
"If you're paranoid long enough, sooner or later you're gonna be right." - Kinky Friedman
"Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report: 'There's a naked person outside!'" - Mike Nichols
"It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath." Aeschylus
"We sit together, the mountain and I, until only the mountain remains." - Li Po
"I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them." - E.V. Lucas
"Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early." - George Will
"Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office." - David Broder
"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." - Carl Sagan
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Whoever was the first person to open up an oyster and say "You know, that looks good enough to eat."

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My Blog

For mothers

Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn, Hundreds of bees in the purple clover, Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn, But only one mother the wide world over. ~George CooperThe sweetest sounds to mo...
Posted by on Sun, 10 May 2009 11:08:00 GMT

Separated At Birth - part 19

Ex-Florida Governor and potential 2012 Prez candidate Jeb Bush......and actor extraordinaire Beau Bridges
Posted by on Mon, 04 May 2009 20:15:00 GMT

Separated At Birth - Part 18 (Fictional Character Edition)

Grawp, from the Harry Potter series......and Alfred E. Neuman from Mad Magazine
Posted by on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:58:00 GMT

Separated At Birth - part 17

Jim Parsons (Big Bang Theory)...and Jimmy Fallon (Late Night With Jimmy Fallon)Imagine Jimmy Fallon goes on the Slim-Fast diet and loses about 30 pounds.  This works, I swear.
Posted by on Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:54:00 GMT

The Dangers of DHMO

The Dangers of DHMODihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is a colorless and odorless chemical compound, also referred to by some as Dihydrogen Oxide, Hydrogen Hydroxide, Hydronium Hydroxide, or simply Hydric aci...
Posted by on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:59:00 GMT

Separated At Birth - part 16

"Octo-Mom" Nadya Suleman.......and her alleged obsession, Angelina Jolie.
Posted by on Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:36:00 GMT

When a choice is no choice at all

Before going on, I'd encourage you to become familiar with the Employee Free Choice Act.  You can read about it at Wikipedia and at OpenCongress.Now, my politics have generally been center-left, thoug...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:34:00 GMT

If you're one in a million in America, there are about 300 people just like you

I'm in the midst of reading a very good book about the challenges America is facing, and though I know a lot of people disagree with some of the author's conclusions, there are a few points he makes w...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:33:00 GMT

Separated At Birth part 15

Embattled Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.......and horror fiction writer Stephen King...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:15:00 GMT

The Gingerbread Man Project

Background: My nephew Ben sent me a "gingerbread man" along with a note, asking me to "show him around town" and send back pictures of the town I live in.  Now that the pictures are printed, I figured...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:33:00 GMT