http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com Random rants and curious explanation. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:01:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We’ve decided to cancel our long-rumored web search optimization program. The proposal had been to expand our internet traffic by orders of magnitude, simply by renaming this site, “And the Cute Kitten You Rode In On.” But, no. We really don’t want advertisers. We never did like money. And ... http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2012/02/06/no-search-bots-please/ These are parlous, nay, perilous times. Yes, that’s redundant, but this is no time to worry about that when the next floodtide of protesters to engulf our innocent streets could be a rowdy mob of gentrified anarchists, undetectable in their unmussed coifs and clean fingernails. Look at Italy! Replacing Berlusconi’s ... http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2012/02/02/comes-the-revolution/ Mitch McConnell. Rand Paul. Jim Bunning. The Creation Museum. These are among the baleful images that come to mind when I think of Kentucky – a state so dismal lately that even its Democratic governor is acting like a troglodyte. As a former resident (six months at ... http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2012/01/22/kinky-kentucky/ There are actually politicians who do their best – Sherrod Brown, for example, or Barney Frank, Bernie Sanders, and I would include Barack Obama. Clearly, there are others who do their worst. We all know that. But as a matter of common courtesy, shouldn’t they at ... http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2012/01/19/sneaker-of-the-house/ Charles Dickens was such a powder keg of pent up emotions and energy that he set off every night to walk it off for three or four hours. If he stopped doing that, he said he would “just explode and perish.” He once met the great Russian novelist Dostoevsky, who ... http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2012/01/16/dickens%e2%80%99s-inner-demon/ Bankers are very upset. Occupy Wall Street vilifies them. Elizabeth Warren and even the president say mean things. And you know how sensitive bankers are. In fairness, isn’t it time we start thinking about them as compassionately as they think about us? For instance, let’s say you live ... http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2012/01/13/boo-hoo-for-bankers/ Normally we write about smaller issues, but duty calls. This year as usual, according to my calendar, December 21 marks the first day of winter. By the Mayan calendar, December 21 will be the end of time, so winter may have to be cancelled. Lovers of doomsday scenarios ... http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2012/01/09/doomsday-scenarios/ Betty (aka Sluggo), our ambassador to Ohio, is a force of nature and a tireless activist in Democratic politics – exactly what Ohio needs most. Lately she’s turned her attention to hydraulic fracturing (fracking) now used by gas drillers and to the wholesale disposal of toxic effluents resulting from that – ... http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2012/01/05/a-fracking-travesty/ Our Tulsa bureau chief, Dr. Steve, is just back from Brazil. We had asked him to take notes, hoping that he might find the answer to George Bush’s question. When he was told that 3 Brazilian soldiers had been killed in Iraq, W asked, “How many is a ... http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2012/01/03/tulza-to-brasil-and-back/ Six year old Zach is our designated maker of fundamental discoveries. Santa brought him a light projector to use in tracing pictures (what art directors call a Lucy machine). He was thrilled: “I didn’t even know I wanted this!” he exclaimed. “How could Santa know?” His reaction was enough ... http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2011/12/29/big-rock-candy-mountain/