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**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers Tis the season for giving instead of receiving… for a change: The problem for Bill and the Obama administration is that “job offer” might have saved its clothes in a closet and told a friend about it. The White House is now hoping everybody believes that they were unaware Sestak [...]

Given current trends, I’m not yet willing to dismiss this as pure satire. Ya never know! **Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe

As a high school freshman, I remember watching the launch of the first shuttle, Columbia, in 1981. Today is the swan song for the shuttle program: CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA has cleared the space shuttle Atlantis for its final planned launch on Friday afternoon as the U.S. space agency prepares to retire its aging [...]

Dried pressed flowers. A pastel crochet chain. Thumbprint art on a homemade bookmark. Simple things from my two munchkins for Mother’s Day. Simple, cherished, pure and wonderful morsels of love: *** A Mother’s Day story you will never forget: Read this before you start your work week. The Briseno family page on Facebook is here.

We are big game-players in my family. If it’s a board game or a card game, we’ve got it — from the classics to the latest fads: Scrabble, Boggle (the original 5×5 grid!), Life, Monopoly, Sorry, Sorry Sliders, Bananagrams, Apples to Apples Jr., Guesstures, Blokus, Pictionary, Scattergories, Risk, Battleship, backgammon, etc., etc., etc. As soon [...]

Just returned to Colorado this evening after a fun-and-sun-filled vacation with my family. As wonderful as the trip was, I’m glad to be back in the Springs. California is still a fiscal basket case. Big Labor and the Open-Borders Lobby still rule the collapsing roost. I still have 1994 Northridge earthquake PTSD. And the traffic [...]

Today is a baking day. I’m attempting to make a Bakugan birthday cake for my son. (Here’s last year’s Pikachu cake.) Gulp. I need the Cake Boss! Wish me luck and talk amongst yourselves. *** Update: The (lopsided!) Bakugan Ball cake is done. Pix here.

What not to wear.

Things you should try once in your life: Flying on a trapeze! Checked it off the list this weekend. Yep, that’s really me, conquering an abject fear of heights with help from my very dear, adventure-loving friends. Wheeeeee. What’s the wildest thing you’ve done?

After a long runaround, ironically, this could be the only way to finally get to the bottom of this mess and find out once and for all what she knew, and when she knew it. If it helps thwart just one more attack on our intellects, it’ll be worth it: But if anybody asks, I [...]

I mentioned this on Twitter last night. Today is Odd Day (5/7/9): “Three consecutive odd numbers make up the date only six times in a century. This day marks the half-way point in this parade of Odd Days which began with 1/3/5. The previous stretch of six dates like this started with 1/3/1905—13 months after [...]

DiplOmacy

Fancy pants.

Because sometimes, you just need to stop and smell the roses. Or break into a “Sound of Music” dance number in the middle of Antwerp’s Central Station! (Thank you, American Digest and Anchoress):

You won’t believe how many people thought I was serious when I Tweeted that this morning! Did you get anybody good today? Share your April Fool’s tales/favorite pranks/etc. I vote for the 1998 Left-Handed Whopper.

Help a brother out.

I’m scheduled to appear on Neil Cavuto’s show on FNC at around 4:45pm-ish Eastern today. Then I’ll be up to my ears in fabric working on this fantabulous color wheel quilt with my daughter. TGIF!

“Neo-Con Barbies.”

I promised a photo of my son’s Pikachu cake from last week. Couldn’t have done it without my daughter, who happily provided supplemental icing services when my hand conked out. Not the neatest job in the world, but the birthday boy was happy:

Sorry for the light blogging. I’m frantically making that Pikachu cake for my birthday boy. Up to my ears in Wilton icing. Those Bakugan thingies arrived in the mail today (just in time!). After my search the other day, I thought of an idea. I’m buying a bunch of Bakugan thingies to donate to military [...]

I was offline this afternoon doing a little shopping for my son’s birthday. There are many industries hurting out there. But I’ll tell you: The makers of “Bakugan” are doing just fine. The entire aisle of Bakugan merchandise at Toys ‘R Us was cleared out. Wiped. Gone. The clerk told me they can’t keep them [...]

Boo-licious.

I’m headed home after a good trip to Tallahassee for a talk at Florida State University. The students boosted my spirits and hopes for the future of conservatism. Blogging will be light this afternoon because it’s a red-letter day in the Malkin family: High School Musical 3 is out in theaters. If you’ve read my [...]

Looking for something scary to put on your front porch for Halloween? Boo! *** One of my other favorite pumpkin designs:

Plus: Bonus birthday photo flashback.

Good talk, son.

Dolled up.

Life outside the blog bubble.

“They don’t buy extras like ice cream anymore”.

“our Total Quality Jihad family…”