Happy Holidays!

Mike the Obscure is taking a break from blogging until after the new year. He wishes everyone a safe and happy holiday season.

Beaver Town

This is what a nifty little beaver dam in central Pennsylvania looks like before three months of drought and then flash flooding destroy it forever.

My Life

The books I wrote and the one I’m writing now, this place, those two geese, that cat, being there for Mom.

This is my life.

A Cat’s Life

eat sleep poop pee play, eat sleep poop pee play, eat sleep poop pee play, eat sleep poop pee play, eat sleep poop pee play

NASA Window Dressing

After half a century of sending people into orbit NASA still cons the world into thinking that another “space walk” by astronauts is space exploration.

Untouchables

Dangerous sociopaths who behave badly all their lives and then hide behind their race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, gender and sexual orientation like cowards when caught.

A Better World

Life’s biggest challenge is not living your life just to suit yourself but doing something to help make this world a better place for everyone.

Get a Life

The cable news networks and their viewers have confused celebrity gossip, local crime and the marketplace debut of the latest “techno-toys” with actual worldwide news.

Religious Freedom

Religious freedom also means “freedom from religion”. That means not having to be scoffed at by arrogant religious salesmen right at you own front door.

This Old Goose

Broken-Wing probably tangled with a red fox before I got to know him. I call him Pond Boss. Sometimes he barks just like a dog.

Lame Riddle

Q. How can you tell a rich hillbilly from a poor one?

A. A rich hillbilly has two cars up on blocks in his front yard.

Point of No Return

Way back when, I learned about the concentration camps during World War II and my views on the world, life and "God" were changed forever.

This Old Bench

Yours truly made this bench about five years ago and didn’t bother to paint or varnish it. I used scrap lumber, too. Can you tell?

Going Tubeless

I stopped watching live television in 1995. I figured I’d seen enough lame sitcoms, sleazy dramas, stupid miniseries, weekend teen movies and commercials by then.

High School Reunion Disclaimer

I have never attended a high school reunion for the plain and simple reason that I have no pleasant memories whatsoever about attending high school.

Who would have thought?

My March 16th posting about Don Imus was not about his subsequent racist comment that cost him his broadcasting jobs. But I’m glad he’s history.

Another Goofy Law

Pennsylvania’s new law requiring headlights when using windshield wipers has nothing to do with driver safety. It’s just another way of generating revenue via fines.

Legal Mail Fraud

Letters in your U.S. mailbox from American companies warning you that your vehicle warranty or Internet domain name has expired. Nothing but cowardly, faceless crooks.

Define “Price Gouging”

Retail gasoline prices in the United States go up just before every major holiday and yet the federal government maintains that price gouging doesn’t exist.

“I’m An Ass in the Morning”

This should be the name of the “Imus in the Morning” radio show. He’s too nasty and shallow for it to be called anything else.

Redneck Vibrator

Looks like a simple pickup truck but once the muffler is FUBAR it’s a masturbation device for rednecks everywhere. Comes in all sizes and colors.

Chariot of the Antichrist

I can think of 666 reasons for not owning one and global warming is at the top of that list. Then landscape scarring, then noise.

Executive Eye-Opener

If President Bush moved out of the White House and into a Walter Reed barrack he’d soon understand the grim reality and futility of war.

Pooh on the Pyramid

This has been America’s pagan idol ever since The All-Seeing Eye of God atop a pyramid was added to the back of our One-Dollar Bill.

World-Wide Spider Web

The Internet is mostly a hideout for creeps, crooks and scoundrels who would be in chains anywhere else. The rest of us are their suckers.

It’s Only Logical

If the sun is a star then the stars are probably suns.

Miracle Cures

Diseases are cured when it’s no longer profitable to treat them. Patients are cured when their health insurance benefits are exhausted.

Putting Saddam in the Rearview Mirror

Executing this war criminal in the name of justice showed the world that murdering innocent people in the name of God is never acceptable.

The Dearly Departed

They still live. But not on Earth. Let them rest in peace, wherever they are. As for me, once around is quite enough, thank you.

Pushing the Cartoon Envelope

Everybody was up in arms over Cartoon Network’s Aqua Teen stunt but no one cared that the blue cartoon characters were giving America the finger.