Monthly Archives: October 2019

Yes my children. Though some of you might not believe it we had sex in the ‘50s. Yes we did. Even the Cleavers though on black and white TV no one ever had sex. Or went to a toilet. Now … Continue reading →

Exposing hypocrisy is always so much fun.  And there is so much of it around these days to expose to the bright light of day.  With so many relatively easy targets on  which to focus it becomes difficult to pick … Continue reading →

Donald the House Lizard decided to join me for a light lunch today. He lives inside my screened in lanai and covers his rent by eating anything smaller than himself which manages to get in under the screen door. Here … Continue reading →

No.  Not the ballet. About 60 miles from where I live is the town of Lakeland, Florida.  Its a pretty place, more of a small city these days situated about 40 miles east of Tampa on the way to Disney. … Continue reading →

  And so yesterday the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham committed another barbarity. A captured American journalist, Steven Sotloff was beheaded on camera as a “message” to America. Presumably this atrocity was ordered by Abu Bakr al-Bagdadi, self-styled “Caliph … Continue reading →

Standard of the IV Cohort XXIV Legion At Cannae, in Southern Italy, the Army of the Roman Republic faced Hannibal in the 2nd Punic War against its rival in north Africa, Carthage. At the time a Roman citizen could not … Continue reading →

Good moms and dads dress up on Halloween and accompany their kiddies on Trick or Treating.  I did it when my girls were growing up,  You can see a younger Toritto, 30 plus years ago in his Halloween trick or … Continue reading →

A pair of cranes and a couple of herons out back. ‘ And out front.  Pickings must be good! . 🙂 .

Well, you all know that some of us have recently been experiencing the Great Anonymous Glitch; when we tried to leave a comment we were coming up as “anonymous” rather than in our normal Word Press handles. It started for … Continue reading →

“I see you made the sale at Bonwit’s” It’s been a rocking 2 weeks in the middle east world. America abandoned it Kurdish allies, who suffered 11,000 dead in the fight against ISIS, to the Turks and the Russians.  They … Continue reading →