Poker Perambulation

That's my new name for Washington – the eastern city one. The Prez recently crowed they've created 2-million jobs. Read more...

Gaming revenues in Nevada fell 10.4 percent in 2009, the largest single year decline in state history. Read more...

No, not the one with the deadly hat sailing at Bond -- James Bond. Jobs these days are headline items. Seems there aren't enough of them and it is causing the politicians problems -- to say nothing about the guy down the street. The solution has been to spend money on a variety of pork barrel items. Read more...

I've had it and haven't had it – insurance wise. What I did have was referred to as “Major Medical” – which is out of favor. The three times I needed it, it came with a thousand deductible that smarted. There was no Health Savings Account involved. I paid off those bills with after tax dollars. Read more...

I am a Hoosier. That has good and bad connotations. It's associated with a conservative bent and a feisty attitude. Guilty as charged. Read more...

This one is for The Wife.  The poor, purple clad lovely is going through rough times.  I thought I’d hearken back a few wars to get everyone on her page. Read more…

I have a good one. He's a chiropractor Osteopath. (I like D.O.'s -- less arrogant on the whole.)  He has credentials in internal medicine. Every quarter he sends me to get blood drawn. Each fiscal year, some outfit sends me the first billings on my Medicare. Holy shit! Read more...

Well, power is an oft used word. There is the Power Lunch and The Wife will wear her Power Suit to an important meeting – likely without the purple pumps. I have a friend that is an electrical engineer and his license plate is P EQ IV. Power is also associated with carbon emissions. Read more...

Back in those good old days, some weren't as good as others. One of the lesser eras took place under the term of President Jimmy Carter who also moonlighted as a valet. His approach was austere. We need to limit our wants and needs. The U.S. was on the decline and he projected that it would continue on and on. Boy did that miss the mark. Read more…

1 : a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities <the dichotomy between theory and practice>; also : the process or practice of making such a division <dichotomy of the population into two opposed classes>

 Interesting word that you might see in Reader's Digest's Word Power.  I always enjoyed that page.  Vocabulary is power.  They named it properly.   But power is all around us.  Vocabulary power stays until senility anyway; the others are more transient. Read more...