Monthly Archives: June 2010

There’s Some One in My Head….

Posted on June 30, 2010 by squathole

For 10 days’ vacation I studiously avoid the news, e-mail, blogs, teevee news, sports, the innerwebs, and even newspapers.  The Magical Unplugged Squathole Tour.   Air out the brain.  Detox the circuits.  You get the idea. I return to the following, … Continue reading →

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Return of the Non-Natives

Posted on June 29, 2010 by squathole

Guido and I had a great vacation, but there’s no place like home, Dorothy, and we’re glad to be back.  We visited with friends whom we’ve never seen in their own home parks, even though in one case, they’ve been … Continue reading →

Posted in News From the Nation's Dicktip | 11 Comments

Death of A Kink

Posted on June 28, 2010 by squathole

Ten days on the road.  Two countries, 7 states, over a thousand miles just on the ground.   No plane crashes, auto accidents, or unplanned pregnancies.  No hemorrhoids.  Yet. So we’re back – and just in time to post an obit.  … Continue reading →

Posted in People Who Died, Died | 5 Comments

Abort Retry Fail

Posted on June 14, 2010 by squathole

Okay, first, thank you, Chollie Crist, for stuffing it up Florida’s crypto-fascist-Nazi legislature leadership’s super-tight bunghole with your veto of the anti-abortion legislation.  FWIW, you just got my vote, as well as Guido’s.  That’s one independent, and one Democrat.  Control-Y … Continue reading →

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Say It With Lactate

Posted on June 10, 2010 by squathole

Something to chew on as you look around the workplace at your colleagues……. [W]omen and men in Saudi Arabia must be careful not to mingle, as the insanely strict Islamic law bans mixing between the sexes who are not related. … Continue reading →

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Primum non nocere

Posted on June 9, 2010 by squathole

Physician, heal thyself.  Or, Doctor My Eyes. Anyhoo…. The Red Cross previously documented, from interviews with “high-value” prisoners, that medical personnel helped facilitate abuses in the C.I.A.’s “enhanced interrogation program” during the Bush administration. Now Physicians for Human Rights has … Continue reading →

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Dog Bites Dirt

Posted on June 8, 2010 by squathole

Melting in the sun this afternoon, I overhear somebody about “the dog days of summer.”  While I never understand that expression, I don’t ask.  And then later I spot this on the wire: The winner of several ‘ugliest dog’ contests … Continue reading →

Posted in People Who Died, Died | 11 Comments

Operation Desert Sands

Posted on June 7, 2010 by squathole

Well, the irony starts with the name: “Desert Sands Unified District.”  Then it all fizzles…… Seven seniors at a Southern California high school were facing disciplinary action for participating in a game called “Beat the Jew” in which losers were … Continue reading →

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Smile and Click

Posted on June 3, 2010 by squathole

We are still experiencing technical difficulties off-loading photos to my computer – it was much easier with DOS, but that’s another story —  but here are two from Key West you might find amusing. This is entitled, “Obalesque by the … Continue reading →

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Eye, Caramba

Posted on June 2, 2010 by squathole

“In Soviet Russia, the vodka bottle paints you.”  — Old meme. Before I converted to tequila (worship services held regularly on weekends), my drink was vodka.  Straight.  I’d buy a bottle of  Stoli 100 proof, cut some hot red peppers … Continue reading →

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