Posted in Pet Peeves on January 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A little off topic here, folks. I should be writing about running, or perhaps the trials of stay-at-home fatherdom, but I have a small pet peeve to air.
You know how your bank sends you a new credit card shortly before your old one expires? Well, assuming they still want you as a customer, they do. [...]
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Posted in Education, Pet Peeves on April 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
One cinnamon roll, sort of like the kind you’d find in the mall. Calories: 500. Fat 20g. Sugar: 75g.
One twenty-ounce Dr. Pepper. Calories: 250. Sugar: 67g.
I had cafeteria duty one morning during my tenure as a high school English teacher, and that’s the breakfast I saw one of my students eating. Perhaps this kid wasn’t manic-depressive like [...]
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I’m a big fan of La Shawn Barber, in part because she’s not afraid to call a duck a duck.
And Hillary is a duck.
Today LSB calls Hillary to task for affecting a “condescending and phony (not to mention awful) southern drawl” as the senator preached (sort of) [Update: she was reciting on old spiritual, [...]
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