By Wink Time for a trip. We don’t have ‘fly’ money, but we do have ‘drive’ money, so our trips are almost always driving trips. Since our vacations are usually two weeks long, we have time to get just about anywhere in the continental United States. This time our major destination is Vancouver which, it [...]
By Wink May 21 came and went. The world didn’t end. If anyone was ‘raptured’ up to heaven, I didn’t notice. (See the May 19 Winkest Link, “Our Final Farewell”) That I did not get ‘raptured’ did not shock me. I try to be good, but I don’t expect to be on the ‘A’ train [...]
By Wink On May 21, a nearby symphony orchestra is performing “Live and Let Die: The Music of Paul McCartney”. Live and Let Die? It can’t be any more appropriate. May 21, 2011 is the end of the earth. The orchestra could have chosen music from ‘Titanic,’ but maybe that would have been too subtle. [...]
By Wink Do you sometimes wonder about Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? Is he the cruel ruthless dictator we have painted him to be? Probably. Is he a puppet for the Muslim Clerics of Iran, notably Ayatollah Khameini? Well, he certainly has been. But maybe now, after all this time, he is developing a little backbone. [...]
By Wink The world is a better place. Not at peace, but better than it was. Osama Bin Laden is dead. His demise does not rid us of terrorists. Splinter cells long ago began setting up around the world, and most did not take orders from Bin Laden. Further, there are many [...]
