Really good poetry

Grandpa Koeber used to recite to my brother Jim:

Jim, Jim, long and slim,
His neckties were all purple.
He'd stick his neck out like an old gray goose,
And draw it in like a turtle.


Doesn't get any better than that!

I got "Tom, Tom the Piper's Son" which was pretty good, too.

Learning to fight back

Luke, after your comments about the Amish school shootings, I thought this might interest you.

Proof of Global Warming

Record early snowfalls in Detroit and Chicago. Also, no major hurricanes.

Cold.

We better act now before it's too late.

"Typically nasty weather!"

Grandma Murphy is here!

It's party time! Manhattans every night!

Luke's coming home, too!

Is he a dog or a mouse?

How could he get that close to a cat and not eat it?

Is he a dog, or a clock?

Lately Panda shows up in my office every evening within two or three minutes of 6 p.m., shoves his nose into my lap, and whines for his favorite snack -- a Meaty Bone. Tonight, he was right on time -- he came trotting in here crying at 5:58 p.m. Now it is 6:01 p.m. and he is happily crunching his bone on the living room rug, feeling sure in a doggy sort of way that all is right in the universe.

Which of you taught him to tell time?

Heh. Heh-heh. Heh-heh-heh.

I'm maxed out on schadenfreude.

Tolerance

I wonder what happened to free speech at Ivy League schools like Columbia. I realize these lefties are mere children, but does that excuse them from acting like animals? The best and the brightest? I don't think so.

More here.

Odds Are You'll See Something You've Never seen Before

Like Julian Tavarez running to second base from the mound in an attempt to pick off Brian Roberts single-handedly.

Topping that, two Dodgers on first and second, NO OUTS, a fly ball double hit to the right field corner. The right fielder throws a strike to the cut-off man who throws a strike to the catcher. The runner from second is out. The catcher turns his back on the play to show the umpire he held the ball, and the pitcher screams at him, " Here comes another one!" The catcher turns and tags him out, too!. There were no outs! Why couldn't the runner from second score on a hit into the corner, and if HE couldn't, why was the runner from first sent to certain death? With no outs save the gunned-down runner in front of him!

To echo the announcers: "I've never seen that before."

Baseball is a great game.

But What About the Population Explosion?

A victory over environmental racism.