I recently received the news that my friend and long-time fellow blogger, truth seeker and bullshit shiner Nolocontendere, author of the blog piglipstick.blogspot.com, has died.  Mr. P died at his home on August 4th due to complications arising from pneumonia. 

The following is my family's current dilemma with Comcast.  I've followed up with 2 e-mails to some of the higher-ups at Comcast.  Whether Comcast will come clean and admit their customer service representative's gross error and honor the original agreement remains to be seen.  My next step is to post my

So, to begin with, WTH Google??  Changing things again??  I don't have time to learn much less read these days.  I'm not interested in change.  I'm interested in CONSISTENCY.  I'm lucky to get a few moments to write the occasional post (by occasional I mean 1/x every 3 months). 

Ok, so now that I'm a parent, I have to admit I'm now celebrating Easter with my little one in the fact that we hid little plastic eggs filled with chocolates around the yard today for her to search for, collect and enjoy.  That was, of course, adorable and entertaining to watch.  However, beyond that, the celebra

An excellent depiction of Rugged Individualism and it's equally deplorable cousin Blame The Victim.

I recently heard where one of the Occupiers asked Michael Moore if he would be willing to give someone in need a million dollars.  Afterall, the guy really is one of the top 1% - certainly one of the super rich.  Last I heard, Mikey had refused to comment.  Makes one think of all these media and celebri

The Occupy movement has me thinking.  What isn't there to Occupy in this world?  What part of this system truly works for All?  I'd like to Occupy the real estate market.  Rip it up.  Tear it down.  Get rid entirely of the idea of buying a home.  Remove compl

Before I begin on my ranting ramble, let me say that gmail (or google mail) is a PAIN IN THE ASS - especially when associated with a blogger account.  Took me a frickin' half hour just to figure out which e-mail and password to use to sign into Blogger.  I had it wrong.  Go figure.  15 months of sleep de

Ok, google.  You just asked me for my phone number in order to continue to my blog.  So I entered "5555555555" and you took it.Idiots.So Osama suddenly turns up dead.  Killed by our Navy Seals.  How convenient of a time for such an event.  And how beneficial for Obama wh

On a lighter note...Did you know that when babies first begin to walk, they walk faster than their parents?Did you know when you put your baby down to play, she will automatically go for the one thing in which you do NOT want her to play?Did you know that the concept of babies sleeping so

The little one's asleep.  Housework is done for the day.  Been another busy day.  And my mind is aching to expel the thoughts carried with me throughout this beautiful finally-reached-60 spring day.  *Looks like we have another president with an impeachable offense.  Dennis Kucinich has

On track for the November 2012 ballot.  Heck yeah, I say.  Heck yeah! And for those of you who are fed the farmville hell up with the monetary-based system, check out the Zeitgeist Movement (google it).  Proposed is a beautiful system that is free of money.&

i sit here, typing with one hand as the little one commands that i hold/nurse/snuggle her every day after 8pm.  sometimes this goes on for more than 2 hours.  what this means is my days (or nights) of partying are over for now.pausing as i wait for confusion and laughter to cease as for anyone who know

The Led Zeppelin song, Dazed and Confused, in particular the line "been dazed and confused for so long..." has been a theme song in my brain the past 6 weeks.  The saying "A baby changes everything" is so true - the brain cells nonwithstanding.  Good lord...She's changing so fast.  And

Mr. N and I welcomed our little girl into the world 2 weeks ago.  She's beautiful (looks a lot like her mama so of course she's beautiful) and healthy and just perfect.  Labor and delivery was an awesome, surreal experience.  It went as planned - a la natural with no medical intervening.  22 hours of lab

As found on this site."Dear Senator Reid:First I would like to thank you for your work in

Remember kiddies to double these numbers as they do not include those who have fallen off the unemployment benefits roster nor do they include those who have had to settle for a part-time minimum wage job (as I tell clueless family members:  you simply cannot grow an economy or save your ass from poverty on

I have to prove my worth to you?FUCK  YOUI have to PROVE my desire and need for help, mentoring, FILL IN THE BLANK?FUCK  YOUI have to GIVE to YOUR organization before I am- possibly - given TO?FUCK  YOUThis system has kicked me to the cur

I had a neighbor tell me that, a few weeks ago, she was on the phone with her mother.  She owns a cell phone.  I do not know if her mother was on a land line or cell phone.  She told me that she and her mother were talking about the violence in the Middle East and were innocently talking about bombs - namely

Ok, I just had to write up a brief post about this topic as, upon reviewing my latest post on my blog's main page, I see where google had posted an add about ending frivilous medical lawsuits.Give me a god damn break.Want to know why medical lawsuits are soaring?  Newsflash:  We

It Must Be Nice:*to be a self-proclaimed teabagger and be so heartless as to be against authentically helping others (funding war good - funding welfare bad), to be so blinded to the Constitution as to believe America is a Christian nation (so much for brotherly love and helping those in need), to be so ignorant

Not that anyone but spammers will read this, much less read this blog anymore...but i wish the following:~people would stop telling me how i am "glowing" and how "wonderful" i look.  I DO NOT FEEL WONDERFUL.  I am scared out of my frigging mind of becoming homeless with a baby.  I am stressed to t

I must admit this is a great way to take advantage of a desperate populace.  Allow a much needed program to lapse, then give the thirsty, (unnecessarily) suffering masses a small glass of

Yeah, that's right.  Discriminate.  "SALEM, Ore.—In a long-awaited decision, the Oregon Supreme Court has ruled that employers are not required to accommodate employees who use medical mar

The return of my mind would be good.  And my body, too.  And oh yeah - a good night sleep would be WONDERFUL.I don't know how much longer I'll be able to do this blog (it took me 5 times just to type "i'll").  I can't sit in front of this thing for long these days.  I'm (nearly) constantly ti

This is likely my last post.  I've devoted a lot of time to this blog, especially the past several months, where my goal was to increase readership and garner some much-needed income - hoping to establish some sort of residual income now that I have a baby coming into my life I'm responsible for.  But like things

Don't listen to the bullshit being spewed on television by Obama over how the economy is showing signs of improving.  Don't listen to any of these DC insiders talk about how we saw an increase of jobs last month (whereby approximately 50,000 are for TEMPORARY census workers and thereby cannot

More evidence of th

Watching the health care debate play out both on the floor of congress and amongst the left and the right is a bit like watching a group of toddlers attempt to build a bridge (minus the cute factor).  They think they know what they're doing, but in reality, they don't.  Congress

It's been shown to damage dna, contributing to such diseases as cancer and heart disease.  (March 24) -- "For almost two years, molecular biologist Bénédicte Trouiller doused the drinking water of scores of lab mice with nano-titanium dioxide, the most common nanomat