Once again, I <3 Stephen Colbert

Dear Stephen, You handle O’Reilly so well last night.  Although, I didn’t catch you nailing O’Reilly later on but I’m sure it’s on the TIVO. I love you not only because of your bravery to stand up for Truthiness, your fantastic adventures with Tek Jensen, and your ability to get your name on a bridge, into a mascot, and even an eagle, but because your show gave me tickets and swag to auction off at my organization’s gala last year. Yours, OakMonster...
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I <3 LA in the morning

Especially when the sky is absolutely gorgeous. To be respectful to folks around me on the road, I did not snap a picture of Downtown LA skyline, backed by clear blue sky, lit by the magic hour sun this morning. First, it was the Choir of the Angels moment on the 710. I was crawling down the stretch on the 710, a leftover carnage of an already cleared accident. There was light in the sky. ]I came up the hill and around the corner, just where the far left lane doubles up to split off to the 5, and the...
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Justice? What justice?

LA Times – 2 men freed in L.A. girl’s killing Police say the gunmen were firing in self-defense at a rival gang member when the girl, 9, was hit by a stray bullet that entered her Angelino Heights home. A few days after a bullet from a gang shooting tore into an Angelino Heights home last month, killing a 9-year-old girl, police announced with much fanfare that they had arrested the two gunmen. But the suspects — Cesar Zamora, 23, and Steven Castanon, 20 — are now out of jail and back in their old neighborhood, to the dismay of...
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It’s 11 p.m.

My wake up call is 5:15 a.m. My back up wake up call is 5:30 a.m. Must leave the house by 5:45 a.m. I’m dead tired. But my hair needs a bit of air drying time.  Yep.  Washed my hair tonight to keep my wake up call at 5:15 instead of 4:45. Brandon decided to turn our wall heater on for the first time all winter.  I LOVE HIM!!! Mother Nature has been throwing us some cold spell lately.  This morning, I stepped off my car on to the patch of grass on the sidewalk.  Itsy bitsy crunching noises came...
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Hello. We’re here.

YEEEEESSSS! I can’t believe I have my own domain. Yey! And such warm welcome from everyone. Thank you so much you guys! Along with the new format, I’d like to introduce a few new links. Chris Rude Cactus’ fabulous wife, Beth Fish, started a resolution everyone can feel good about this year. Beth said: I decided I would challenge myself to do at least one thing every single month to help a kid other than my own. That’s just awesome! So, I promise Beth that I would list her “Do Good” blog on my blog permanently. (See Small Change banner...
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