Nuts
This drumbeat of acorn acorn acorn is rattling my nerves.
No, I'm not talking about Barack Obama's days as a radical leftist community organizer.
Maybe I'm the only one who's not.
I mean the hailstorm of acorns bombarding my roof, my car and, when I'm standing under one of my oak trees, my head.
There is a load of them this year ... after practically none last fall. Isn't that supposed to warn of a harsh winter? Maybe not. Anyway, it means all those gray, bushy tailed little critters will have plenty to eat.
I can also expect a tougher time raking and bagging when there are millions of nuts lurking below the layers of leaves ... and digging their way into the soil.
Can't wait for the crop of oak seedlings next spring.
Squirrels love 'em, but acorns are nothing but trouble for the rest of us. Right, Sen. Obama?
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Now Doug, why you gotta go bringing up this complicated stuff from Barack's past? I mean why bother with the hard stuff when there are all these beautiful people on these Emily's List ads on the News and Record website telling me how to vote a straight Democratic ticket?
Don't you know Obama's gonna change it, rearrange yet, yes we can, Obama's gonna change the world!
Get with it, Douglas.
Posted on October 9, 2008 10:20 PM
The article you link to is substantially wrong on the facts.
Posted on October 10, 2008 7:37 AM
I was writing about acorns.
Posted on October 10, 2008 8:19 AM
Time: 10 yrs in future
Place: A mixer for Osama bin Laden held at Rosemary Roberts' House sponsored by the N&R honoring Osama's book tour in support of his book " Bullsh-t, Not Bombs".
Rosemary: So Osama, it's been ten yrs. since you wanted to blow sh-t up, right?
Osama: Oh, at least, Rosemary.
Rosemary: And you don't want to anymore, right?
Osama: That is right.
Rosemary (to Lorraine) See, I told you.
Osama: As you say in this country. "That is no longer my thing, man".
Rosemary: Oh, well. Boys will be boys. I think if we're honest about it, probably most boys want to blow up sh-t when they are young and foolish.
Lorraine: Some girls too!
Rosemary: So Osama, what changed your mind, about bombing sh-t?
Osama: I decided I could accomplish much more with community activism. For instance in addition to our poppy plant cooperative we have also started a goat herding cooperative. Also all the tailings from digging caves are replanted with trees, grasses, and some poppies to prevent erosion and keep the green folks happy.
Rosemary; Oh, Osama! Outstanding
Osama: See, we decided we can influence more hearts and minds by appealing to mush-headed dingdongs all over the world.
Rosemary. Oh, Osama, flattery will get you everywhere. Let me introduce you around...
Posted on October 10, 2008 9:25 AM
"I was writing about acorns."
So what? You want to be able to toss out some inaccurate information and avoid accounting for it by saying, "That's not what I was writing about?"
Posted on October 10, 2008 9:59 AM
Doug, was Ayers ever convicted of anything or did he ever serve time?
Posted on October 10, 2008 10:11 AM
Guys, I'm not writing about Ayers, and I'm sorry you missed the point. I linked to an article simply to make the contrast between the acorn issue and the ACORN issue.
It's ridiculous to suggest a blogger has to account for every fact stated in every article he links to. You'd never have time to do anything but fact-check other articles. Roch, do you fact-check every blog you link to?
Posted on October 10, 2008 10:50 AM
You're right, Doug . "Radical leftist community organizing" wouldn't have any possible conversational relation to Ayers at all. What's wrong with us?
Posted on October 10, 2008 11:30 AM
"Roch, do you fact-check every blog you link to?"
I try not to link to articles that misinform, but if someone were to point out to me that something I had linked to was inaccurate, I would acknowledge it and not try to deflect from it with a lame excuse.
It would be like me writing a post that said:
"You know who I admire? I admire cartoonists."
Then I could say, don't give me any flack about the link, I was writing about cartoonists.
Posted on October 10, 2008 11:44 AM
Skeet, as the alter ego to "Boys will be Boys" above, I find it hard to believe you don't recognize satire.
Roch, I'm calling BS on you. And you know you're BS-ing this. You're too smart to be serious.
Posted on October 10, 2008 12:18 PM
Doug, I do. Not that the column above is satire. It could be considered by many quite likely.
I'm not sure what I could possibly seriously say to you, comparing an actual acorn, which, as you pointed out, squirells eat, to an acronym ACORN. What were you expecting your commenters to say except respond with likewise inanity? And I want to try to keep the conversation going, as always.
Posted on October 10, 2008 2:02 PM
Good point. Now to move to more serious matters ...
Posted on October 10, 2008 2:06 PM
And you are too smart, Doug, not to recognize pusillanimity.
Posted on October 10, 2008 4:32 PM
Roch, you're either misusing that word, you've missed the point of this post by an even wider mark than I first suspected, or you're just trying to be an irritant. My guess is No. 3.
You'll have to excuse me now. Per your scolding, I'm going to fact-check every article I've ever linked to in this blog, which might take me the next 30 years.
Posted on October 10, 2008 4:49 PM
Roch: The Huffington Post article you link to says nothing about the Stanley Kurtz article in the NR.
What in Kurtz's article is not factual?
Do you deny that ACORN influenced the expansion of subprime mortgages by Fannie and Freddie? Do you deny that Obama steered money from Annenberg to ACORN?
Posted on October 11, 2008 11:22 AM