Skeezix

Today I saw a minivan with a "Student Driver" banner across the hood. Woman driving was talking on a cell phone. She was alone in the car. I'm guessing she was a driving instructor.

Ouch...As my dear departed Dad would say, Gotterdamerung "got snookered." Pull that hook out of your lip boy, before they start reeling you in!

Idea 1: I used to have one of those round plastic food dehydrators with the stackable trays and the solid plastic insert trays for fruit leather. Make up a big pot of tomato-based sauce. You can put meat in it if you want. Good to add chopped vegis such as peppers, broccoli, squash, etc. Cook it up and eat a little over pasta that night, then spray those solid tray inserts with veg oil and spread the sauce, or chili, or whatever on the tray. Dry it to a little drier than fruit leather-like consistency and divide it into dinner-sized portions in Ziploc Freezer Bags (the heavy duty ones). Store in the freezer until you're ready to go (They'll keep just fine in your pack on the trip ...no spoilage with the moisture removed). When you leave camp in the a.m. to go climb, fill the Ziploc with water and leave it in the pot all day. The sauce will rehydrate nicely. When you return to camp in the p.m., boil pasta, pour off water, and dump in sauce. Fresh grated parmesan makes it. Idea 2: Those tubes of pesto ...like toothpaste tubes. Expensive but handy and quick! Mix with your favorite pasta and, again, fresh grated parmesan. Idea 3: I'm pretty burned out on granola for breakfast, but I used to mix instant powdered milk with my granola in the ziploc bag at home, then in the mountains all I had to do was pour some in my cup and add water. Dried strawberry slices dress it up. Idea 4: Bagels and cream cheese for lunch. Bagels are bomber in the pack. Cream cheese travels surprisingly well unrefrigerated. Idea 5: Fig Newtons hold up well in the pack compared to other cookies. Those ones sold by the lb. in the bulk food section of many groceries are bigger and heartier (whole wheat)than the Nabisco ones. Not light, though...

Keep putting your energy into spreading the "DEAN PEOPLE SUCK" message sailBOI! You're really getting somewhere that way, buddy.

Actually, I think Dems/Kerry are trying to portray themselves as representing the interests of someone they're not. Big difference. Bush barely tries to hide that he's representing the interests of big bidness. Actually, I take that back. He fought the release of the invitees to the table to write energy policy all the way to the Supreme Court (sound of ducks quacking). Kenny Lay has W on speed dial. And I wonder if Big Drug lobby had anything to do with Medicare changes?

Dru...You voted for Paul Martin, didn't you?!

Yeah...there wouldn't be anybody to pull the strings that make his mouth move.

Kerry will do fine. He's not perfect, but he's intelligent and will surround himself with good people. Remember, when that moron Bush gets the boot in November, so does Cheney the dick, Dumbsfeld, Condi, Gale Norton, et al.

Kerry rides a Harley. Bush can't even ride a mountain bike without crashing. (Actually, the one thing I admire about Bush is that he is fit ...a runner. I'm still voting against him tho'.)

I'm a veteran, and I think the original post is a load of

Actually, the story of his killing is being circulated in an AP story. It came up on my Earthlink startup page in the headlines section.

Can't. I'm left-handed.

I don't own a gun.

Or how 'bout "I could care less."

I don't have a problem with the evolving nature of the language ...or the fact that correctness is determined by popular usage. My example had to do with the confusion of COUNT and AMOUNT. Doesn't this sentence sound odd even to thine open-mindedness: "There was a large amount of climbers milling around at the base of the climb."

There's all sorts of nonstandard speech tics that annoy. The usage that's been bugging me lately has to do with the difference between COUNT and AMOUNT. On CBC Radio today, a med school student was talking on the topic of the shortage of M.D.'s going into family practice. He spoke of the workload in terms of "...the large amount of patients doctors see each day." --See the problem with that construction? And that's the way it usually goes wrong: the speaker uses "amount" when he should use "number". Drives me crazy.

Now that Fahrenheit 9/11 is taking off like a rocket and shattering records at the box office, it's clear that Americans are hungry for Moore's message. Michael Moore is probably going to have WAY more impact on the election than Ralph Nader. Conservatives are soiling their britches at this point.

O.K.

So is the U.S.

No good Mexican food in the PNW? Alright Mexican food elitists ...calm down.

If the shoe don't fit, don't climb the fence.

Bush is having a bad year. Let's hope it ends badly for him.

I've had a lot of time to think about the death penalty. I was Lee Malvo's English teacher for three months a couple of years back. He was, at that time, an exceptionally nice kid --active participant, uncommonly polite, articulate and intelligent. I mean he was exceptional. He was in a class I taught called College Writing. For his substantiated essay topic he was researching global warming. Then he went to the east coast and shot a whole bunch of people. When they caught him ...I couldn't figure it out. Still can't. My guess is that Muhammed (the older guy) brainwashed him completely. During the months they lived in Bellingham, I frequently spotted them walking the streets. Malvo introduced Muhammed to me in the school counseling office. I shook his hand and looked him in the eye. Seemed like a nice guy. Psychopath. I was glad Malvo didn't get the death penalty. To this day I believe that the influence of the older man was a mitigating circumstance.

Bang, bang.

Didn't stop Bush from crowing that "We're winning the war on terror!" Wow! Had to read this one twice. Seems you just made the case for Bush. Does this mean you'll be voting for GW this November?? He said "brain power and reasoning." Bush has neither.