Necessary Roughness

two kingdoms, hundreds of thousands of miles

Archive for August, 2004

Book Report: Misunderestimated
Monday, August 30th, 2004

I’m starting this blog entry Saturday evening about 20,000 over East Texas, in a plane delayed 45 minutes by severe weather in Dallas this morning. There are only 2 passengers in the First Class cabin, and I’m not there because the flight is American, not Continental. I offered to sit more forward than my coach [...]

National Lampoon's MoveOnPlease.org
Saturday, August 28th, 2004

One of the LiveJournal conservative communities posted a link to MoveOnPlease.org, a National Lampoon website that takes MoveOn.org and Michael Moore to task. Among the funnier things:
Air America: the fun is trying to find us.
Everything Bad Fault of Rumsfeld
and my favorite:
“IF GEORGE BUSH IS RE-ELECTED I’M LEAVING THE COUNTRY” SOUND FAMILIAR? JUSTIN CASE LIBERAL TRAVEL [...]

Wing Report
Friday, August 27th, 2004

There’s no Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant in East Texas, at least within an hour of Kilgore, TX. The closest place that does any sort of wings is a WingStop. WingStop wings are breaded, so they already are a rung below BWW wings. They offer half as many sauces as well. I’ve tried all of the [...]

Silly wabbits
Friday, August 27th, 2004

Got a little bit more gristle this week from the Standard/Advocate’s opinion page (link dead).
File this under “not having an opinion while needing something to say.” A (co-opted? / copied? / borrowed?) editorial (link dead) from the Post-Standard, Syracuse, N.Y., regarding the newly enacted overtime legislation, offers this gem of advice regarding the new overtime [...]

I've been renting cars from Avis to do company business for the last five years. Normally they treat me ok, giving me unlimited miles at reasonable rates. I got the bill back from my last trip to Longview, though, and got surprised by the bill.
Normally, in the situation where I rent a car [...]