bad luck

When unexpected good things happen, we call it Serendipity. Not so with unexpected bad things. The Law of Unintended Consequences, abbreviated LUC and pronounced “luck” as in “If it weren’t for bad LUCk I’d have no LUCk at all!”, is perhaps the most famous non-scientific Law.

"On the whole, Republicans are either the victims of incredibly bad luck, or lousy economic policy. But either way, they are not the Party of growth. Macro-economic growth seems to be faster when Democrats are in office."

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We’ve entered a new phase of parenting, and it’s not an especially helpful or cute phase that you want to scrapbook like “my children will fetch me a cold drink from the refrigerator” or “my children will scratch my back on demand.”

It’s incessant fighting and I don’t like it one bit.

For all the rhetoric about "protecting the children," you'd think that we'd never allow a child to be homeless here in America. Think again....

Where's the outrage?

Congressional Quarterly has drawn up a bracket for the contest to be John McCain’s Vice-Presidential runningmate.

I talk about this regularly here - the actions of some who harden the hearts of those who might otherwise be willing to lend helping hands to the Homeless, if only they could figure out beforehand whether the particular Homeless person they are trying to help is really down on his/her luck or has created a self-induced hardship through "deviant" behaviors....

MURFREESBORO -- The number 13 has long been a number associated with negative and mysterious powers of bad luck. It proved to be an ever so elusive number that even the legendary Shelbyville Golden...

Well here’s a “no [bleep]” moment for those of us who have unusual last names.

All computers and some people don’t like us.

More than 50 years into the Information Age, computers in the U.S. are still getting confused by the apostrophe.