Today.

This is the Finkelstein Test. Follow along, boys and girls: 1. Make a fist with the fingers closed over the thumb2. While holding your hand in this position, bend your wrist towards the little finger.3. See area indicated in yellow in the diagram above? If you get a shooting pain there (which can be bad…

If training has been consistent and gentle, a nine month puppy should be pretty thoroughly housebroken. Some dogs do take a little longer than others, though, so don’t despair yet. Give a gander at Learn2 Housebreak your puppy. I just glanced through it, and while much of it probably doesn’t apply to your nine-month old…

was anything but “amazing”. “Stultifying” comes far closer to the truth. This was a movie that cried for resolution, not the open-ended final scene that it so artsily provided. The movie did a great job of character development, but at the end that’s all you had – a bunch of characters. Well, at least I’ve…

Which just about sums it up in a nutshell.

From today’s New York Times article on the Supreme Court hearing the case regarding the Pledge of Allegiance and “one nation under God”: Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist noted that Congress unanimously added the words “under God” in the pledge in 1954. “That doesn’t sound divisive,” he said. This strikes me as a very strange…

My first entry of 2011 and I’m already bitching. Life as we know it continues. Things that I got for Christmas that I might be able to regift: ●4 Gorham “Festive Holly” votives ●Lenox “Just Jingles” tree ornament (which I note with amusement has “American by Design” printed on the box but “Made in China”…