few more years

Some tough but necessary talk about energy:

I want to have an unpleasant talk with you about a problem unprecedented in our history. With the exception of preventing war, this is the greatest challenge our country will face during our lifetimes. The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly.

Ginger Snaps chronicles her journey from the theocratic right to the center left:

in October 2003, I purchased a 1999 Isuzu Rodeo.  Ever since I saw the body style and drove one for the first time, I knew I wanted to own one.  Four years and eight months later, my suzy had 97,000 miles.  Never have I had a huge mechanical bill.  I’ve kept the oil changed, tires rotated and the interior clean.

WBIR.com: The mysterious body from the sky

On September 11, 1985, Fred Myers called authorities to his house in the Island Home neighborhood. The 85-year-old had found the body of a man, tangled in a parachute.

I am a housing counselor and for about the last 15 years I have served as the Director of Housing Services for the Woodbine Community Organization, a HUD approved non-profit housing counseling agency. Our organization belongs to a loosely associated organization called the Affordable Housing Forum.

I just listened to “Stairway To Heaven” all the way through.  I haven’t done that in over 20 years.

I didn’t puke.

In fact, I kind of liked it.

I think in a few more years, I’ll actually be able to listen to “You Light up My Life”.

If you go to sunny Southern California in the next few months, take the NBC Studios tour in Burbank while you still can. As had been predicted for some time, ever since NBC and Universal Studios merged into a joint venture called NBC Universal, NBC announced this week that it will sell the Burbank studio as soon as possible, leasing it from the new owners for a few more years while moving all of its production to the Universal Studios complex, which is both a production facility and a theme..