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Katty's School Adventures! General | Sunday August 31, 2008 | By Y-chan

New blog! Yay! Okay..so now, how to use the blog? Well it is "Katty's School Adventures" but school hasn't started yet Hm..well, I moved into my new room today. Didn't sleep too badly..admittedly it was hard to get to sleep while thinking about...

Kent General | Saturday August 30, 2008 | By Kent

Today I am in Minneapolis helping get my oldest daughter settled into her place before classes start next week. She's a sophomore transferring here and it's her first time away from home. Bittersweet doesn't even begin to describe how I feel about today. She's...

Kent General | Friday August 29, 2008 | By Kent

David Duchovny checks into rehab for sex addiction . If you are really, really quiet and you listen really, really, really hard you can actually hear the faint murmur of women all over the country saying, "Pick me, pick me"...

Kent Politics | Wednesday August 27, 2008 | By Kent

I questioned before if Obama was the real deal. If he's the candidate for change, why is his running mate Biden of all people? What a lame choice, talk about same-old politics. "But he had to pick someone like Biden to help him get elected", I...

Esoterik Girl Pets | Wednesday August 27, 2008 | By EsoterikGirl

This entry was written on 6-15-08 in another blog program. I am transferring it over here to try to consolidate my writing into one place.   Artemis was a most unique cat. She began as my adult son's pet - weaned early from her mother and offered up as...

Kent General | Wednesday August 27, 2008 | By Kent

Wil Wheaton mentioned something in a recent blog entry that I thought was very interesting, something that makes me think about the movie The Karate Kid. What Wil said was this: "... until I take time off and recover HP. Problem is, I always feel...

Esoterik Girl Life | Wednesday August 27, 2008 | By EsoterikGirl

  (This blog posting was started on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 and posted today) My daughter Sydney (who just turned 13 less than a month ago), is gone for a week as of today. She flew out of Lincoln, Nebraska at 6:20 this morning (August 26), destined...

Kent General | Thursday July 31, 2008 | By Kent

About 6:30 this morning I could smell someone making breakfast. At my house, that was unusual. I figured Katie must be cooking, although that was far too early for her. About 7:20 there was a knock on our bedroom door that it was time for us to get up. We...

Kent Politics | Wednesday July 16, 2008 | By Kent

I've been saying for years that government bailout of airlines makes no sense. Either the free market works or it doesn't - if an entire industry can't figure out what they have to charge for their services in order to at least break even, they simply should...

Kent General | Wednesday July 09, 2008 | By Kent

My brother's family recently went to the awesome Henry Doorly Zoo, and took Marissa along. And of course, there are lots of photos !

Kent Politics | Thursday June 26, 2008 | By Kent

Ted Rall 's latest editorial (included at the end of this post) is the absolute gospel, no heresy intended. People don't want to hear what he has to say in this piece, but it's right and it takes a certain faith to accept something so seemingly foreign to...

Kent Politics | Wednesday June 25, 2008 | By Kent

As if the fact that we actually elected Bush in 2004 (no, not 2000, he didn't win that one) weren't enough, I just read that a recent poll indicates that American voters think McCain would handle Iraq better than Obama. Now McCain is basically just Bush...

Kent Chess | Tuesday June 24, 2008 | By Kent

I just finished the audio book of Josh Waitzkin's The Art of Learning . I really enjoyed it, and while it seems more autobiographical than instructional, the way in which Josh ties the threads from the stories he tells with the lessons he learned from them is...

Kent Chess | Sunday June 22, 2008 | By Kent

A few days ago I got a call from a 13-year old who was hoping I could help train her to be ready for the Cornhusker State Games chess tournament . I've watched Pujaa grow up in chess playing halls for a few years now, and I was absolutely thrilled to be able...

Kent Politics | Friday June 20, 2008 | By Kent

Well our wonderful congress is rubber-stamping whatever Bush wants yet again, Constitution be damned. In this week's episode, it's providing immunity to telecom companies that have/will spy on American citizens at the whim of the government - no warrant...

Kent Politics | Wednesday June 18, 2008 | By Kent

That's a pretty hot topic. A lot of the Obama-crazed supporters I'm sure would jump up and down and scream YES, but as for me, I'm not so sure. The reason why is simple - he's a politician. I don't trust politicians because no matter what they say or how well...

Kent Code Monkey | Friday June 13, 2008 | By Kent

Ewwwwwww.....

Kent Politics | Wednesday June 11, 2008 | By Kent

I just read something on the local TV web site that actually got me to leave a comment to it, reproduced below: Please...I find most of this "analysis" pretty shallow. For one, higher oil prices would equate to higher revenue, NOT higher PROFITS unless Big...

Kent Code Monkey | Wednesday June 11, 2008 | By Kent

I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!

Kent Politics | Wednesday June 11, 2008 | By Kent

I don't want to sound like a broken record by bringing up Big Oil again, but I just read a piece on the ABC News website about Big Oil profits, and it ends with a pretty entertaining quote: " ... The oil companies are "broadly owned by tens of millions of...

Kent Code Monkey | Wednesday June 11, 2008 | By Kent

Is it five o'clock yet?

Kent Politics | Tuesday June 10, 2008 | By Kent

Not that this surprises me, but republicans have blocked any sort of windfall taxes on Big Oil . Of course not only do we pay sales tax on gas, we also pay extra state taxes on it, and extra federal taxes on it. But heaven forbid any extra taxes on Big Oil,...

Kent Politics | Tuesday June 10, 2008 | By Kent

Last night I watched part of Dennis Kucinich's impeachment resolution presentation on C-SPAN. (There is also a good blog bit about it). Pelosi and the bulk of the democrats are such  chicken-****s, taking impeachment "off the table". It's...

Kent Code Monkey | Wednesday June 04, 2008 | By Kent

You know my butt just ain't that big!