tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55869292011-06-07T23:19:21.961-07:00Going forward, not backwards, upwards not forwards... and always twirling towards freedomSpunDrunkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00568463298738102217noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5586929.post-43627564738804933472008-12-03T10:52:00.000-08:002008-12-03T11:19:52.896-08:00Deja Vu' All Over AgainWell the last post I placed on this blog was in 2005 after we moved to Elko ahead of what I perceived at the time to be an overdue bursting of the housing bubble. I got busy with life, changed careers and adapted to new challenges and even adopted some in the process. I made friends, formed and dissolved corporations, got diagnosed with ADHD and have been lulled into the complacency that SpunDrunkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00568463298738102217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5586929.post-1124601294294302262005-08-20T22:13:00.000-07:002005-08-20T22:15:39.183-07:00Back in Ten...We're moving out of state so everything has taken a back seat to this freaking tumultuous event.Might be able to write more in October Allah willing ;)SpunDrunkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00568463298738102217noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5586929.post-1118037134231835532005-06-05T22:40:00.000-07:002005-06-05T22:54:16.883-07:00Holy Crap - C.Diff goes wild!!In a continually frightening trend, the stinky but otherwise innocuous Clostridium Difficile has now mutated into an antibiotic resistant superbug. Bacteria can transmit antibiotic resistance to completely different strains of bacteria via plasmid transfer - basically a small tube that two bacteria hook up with to swap rna/dna. This is like your dog transferring the ability to bark to your cat. SpunDrunkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00568463298738102217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5586929.post-1116990890188902302005-05-24T20:12:00.000-07:002005-05-24T20:14:50.193-07:00Beware the superbugSometimes it sucks to be right.Marine killed by scratch and superbugBy Simon de Bruxelles Richard Campbell-Smith A SUPERFIT Royal Marine collapsed and died within days of scratching his leg on a bush while on a training run — victim of a mutated superbug one doctor described as the worst she had ever seen.Dr Morgan said that victims of the superbug were unable to resist it, no matter how fit SpunDrunkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00568463298738102217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5586929.post-1116114565115148752005-05-14T16:34:00.000-07:002005-05-14T16:49:25.116-07:00My Day...3:30 am - Last time I saw the clock before the benadryl beat my insomnia.8:30 am - A small shake on my shoulder...a bleary eye opens to the beaming, but somewhat blurry smile of my 7 year old daughter. I pull out an earplug "Hi Dad"...good god she is chipper this morning..."Bryce hurt his balls and is walking funny at school. I think he will be okay but he couldn't run and I heard his mom say SpunDrunkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00568463298738102217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5586929.post-1115140892850525102005-05-03T10:20:00.000-07:002005-05-03T10:21:32.853-07:00Mirror ImageHello Mr. Scott, we don't know each other but I was googling my wife's name at Starbucks this morning (I lost her dang email address) and wondered what the heck comes up under my name. Oddly enough the guest comments I've written for the News and Review placed me at number one but you came up next. The only other time I've had this type of media induced deja vu was when some other Jeffrey Scott SpunDrunkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00568463298738102217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5586929.post-1114114051093510522005-04-21T12:15:00.000-07:002005-04-21T13:18:39.886-07:00A Brief Note on the "Sanctity of Life"The sun was dipping behind some anonymous hills on my way down interstate 99 to another, equally anonymous nursing home. It was one of those days that made you feel really alive; full of crisp, vibrant gusts of air supporting a sky full of puffy cumulus clouds that were aflame with colors Monet could only dream of. As I reached my destination I got out of my car and took a deep, grateful breath. SpunDrunkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00568463298738102217noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5586929.post-1113935614252774442005-04-19T10:57:00.000-07:002005-04-20T22:32:25.526-07:00Reform Thyself!!!A note on religion on this day of papal election: Reform thyself!!Here’s a brief shopping list for the odd fundamentalist to get to work on.Out Right LiesFaith Healing - great for making televangelists multi-millionaires but not so good for mending broken bones, cancer or regrowing brain tissue. This applies to all the fake new age healers as well under my blanket "No Numbskullduggery" SpunDrunkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00568463298738102217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5586929.post-1113544215803039542005-04-14T22:35:00.000-07:002005-04-14T22:59:47.076-07:00Arch Centrist Attacks!Ok so most (all) of my rants, diatribes and frothing screeds are aimed at social conservatism and the politics and pundits who champion it. This is due to two very good reasons:It just infuriates me no end. The Liberals in this country have no central mythology to unite them and have become the political equivalent of Apple computers; propped up by their conservative rivals as a scrawny bulwark SpunDrunkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00568463298738102217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5586929.post-1113517085053429512005-04-14T14:29:00.000-07:002005-04-19T15:31:45.246-07:00Intelligent Design & the Myth of Unified BeliefI found a very interesting website on Intelligent design today. It's a beautiful site that is well organized and written. Unfortunately, like almost all intelligent design "theory", the arguments focus on attacking the “holes” in evolutionary theory and highlighting the back end of bacteria - an approach I find both hilarious and interesting.First, let's review just what the scientific method is.SpunDrunkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00568463298738102217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5586929.post-1111481076685784292005-03-22T00:43:00.000-08:002005-03-22T00:56:38.086-08:00The Fight For States Rights And The Sanctity of MarriageWell it’s been awhile since I’ve written – I’ve been busy writing a book, selling a business…you know the drill – but this last weekend really has me dizzy. Suddenly Republicans are against states rights and for government paid health care. Liberals have come out swinging for states rights and the sanctity of marriage. President Bush makes a special trip to Washington from his ranch in Texas to SpunDrunkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00568463298738102217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5586929.post-1107927986805811472005-02-08T21:46:00.000-08:002005-03-22T00:42:49.526-08:00Dear Mr. Farah, regarding your article on Marriage found online at http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42749 you stated; "As long as the Christian faith remained dominant in America, the minority of non-believers would have little to worry about. Christians didn't believe in forceful conversions. They didn't believe in imposing their convictions on others. They SpunDrunkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00568463298738102217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5586929.post-1107892204261721322005-02-08T11:45:00.000-08:002005-02-08T11:55:01.193-08:00The following email was sent to Paul and Phil - a couple of local talk show hosts that do a good job of presenting a balanced opinion on topics.
[To Paul and Phil at talk 650 am http://www.kste.com/paulandphil.html]
I was fatally shot by police yesterday.
I thought that title would get your attention. I wrote this a few years ago and, while too lengthy to be read on air I thought you guys SpunDrunkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00568463298738102217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5586929.post-1106083718413832572005-01-18T13:26:00.000-08:002005-01-18T13:31:38.650-08:00[In response to Barbara Simpson's article on WorldNetDaily ]
Hello Barbara, I read your article on WorldNetDaily today regarding the "so sorry" phenomenon and I agree with you. My only disagreement comes with your statement that this is somehow "...perfect and illustrative of today's generation". It's not. It's perfect and illustrative of every generation.
Aside from corruption the major SpunDrunkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00568463298738102217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5586929.post-1105951971473880072005-01-17T01:32:00.000-08:002005-01-18T13:33:55.256-08:00Sooo... tonight I watched 60 minutes report on Iraq. Yes, those liberally biased scumbags still have the nerve to report on things...and stuff too. Now that I know that they are just tools of the commie-pinko-abortionist-underage-poodle-humpers so I tried to spot the bias in their report. Unfortunately, before I could, the marine unit they were embedded with was hit twice; once with a roadside SpunDrunkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00568463298738102217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5586929.post-1105722620790827812005-01-14T09:00:00.000-08:002005-01-14T09:10:20.790-08:00MemoGate Blues
Okay this site is named SpunDrunk and if you're wondering what that means all you have to do is observe the "MemoGate Scandal". Hugh Hewitt and many other conservative AM band icons have spent the last week venting their rage, calling for congressional hearings and generally shouting for the public caning of Dan Rather.
Meanwhile we have stopped looking for WMD's in Iraq and SpunDrunkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00568463298738102217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5586929.post-1104962570870328892005-01-05T13:59:00.000-08:002005-01-05T15:47:15.540-08:00
Ever notice how people are waiting longer to get married (a good thing) but that the conservative JC (JudeoChristian) crowd keeps touting abstinence as the only solution? A few days ago I heard Michael Medved take on the issues of abstinence education and gay marriage in the space of one week. Time passed and my thoughts congealed until finally it hit me how the two topics were really the same SpunDrunkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00568463298738102217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5586929.post-1104928984436101502005-01-05T04:30:00.000-08:002005-01-05T04:43:04.436-08:00Inspiration Dawns - sleep however, remains elusiveWell I've had this litle blog online gathering dust for over a year and have been preoccupied with other projects until now. So what changed? I mean after all, there was a rather nasty election going on last year and a long, short war going on in Iraq to boot.
To be honest, I've just become fed up with the lack of rational arguments and total abyss of critical thinking. Everybody wants to throw SpunDrunkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00568463298738102217noreply@blogger.com0