Sully's Side

Sully's Side contains musings about anything that strikes my fancy. It includes family history as I prefer to remember it, more or less true gardening and nature stuff, recipes not meant for the timid or health conscious, contentious book reviews, observations about events in Collegeville, PA and environs, and half-baked opinions about national events and politics. I write in the spirit of Humpty Dumpty. 'When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.'

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Everybody knows the Germans make good stuff

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I love the line in that Shamwow video where the pitchman says, "Everybody knows the Germans make good stuff," because even though ...
Friday, December 24, 2010

An interesting video about progress

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The video at this Cato Institute page is a bit long at 78 minutes; but the interesting part is Matt Ridley's ten or so minute talk and ...
Friday, December 17, 2010

This article made me think of Mom

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Mom was liberal to the core (in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt New Deal sense and also the anti-war sense), although she rarely talked about ...

Congratulations and thanks to the Tea Partiers

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The new Tea Party backed congressmen and women who were elected last month won't take office until January 20th; but the effects of the ...
Sunday, December 12, 2010

Cluelessness

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Alan Sorkin wailed away, On his blog the other day, 'Cause Sarah Palin shot a moose, Or was it Rudolph on the loose, While hunting up Al...
Saturday, December 11, 2010

The few, the proud, the Santa Marines

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Many are called but few are frozen. Warning, the marching song has a funny line that may stray just a bit over the line for prissy folks; bu...
Thursday, December 9, 2010

Winter is here

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The past three or four days have made it clear that winter is here. Cold, cloudy and blustery. Downright miserable most of the time. I'm...

Global Warming Delegates sign a petition to ban water

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Priceless. Some college students went down to the big global warming convention and government paid vacation thing in Cancun and pulled the ...
Monday, December 6, 2010

Ravioli and stuffed olives for a bunch of people

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I mentioned the other day that Linda found Aunt Mary's recipe for a whole lot of meat ravioli after Angela and I semi-finalized the mad ...
Saturday, November 27, 2010

Footballs

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Foods you enjoyed as a kid never taste exactly as you remember them; but sometimes you can get pretty close. Today we made footballs accordi...
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Saturday, November 20, 2010

Winter is a comin'

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The signs are now too numerous to avoid that winter is on its way. I just picked the last Swiss Chard in the garden. The last five of the to...
Monday, November 15, 2010

Gnocchi or Cavatelli

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I've often wondered why Mom always said she was making "cavadeellie" from leftover mashed potatoes when we were kids, since ac...
Thursday, November 11, 2010

The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month

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Today is Armistice Day, or at least it used to be Armistice Day. It used to commemorate the truce, or armistice, that finally ended World Wa...
Friday, November 5, 2010

Hopefully you're not suffering from torschlusspanik

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I deliberated about whether to share this word I just found, because it seems to me that I've very rarely suffered from torschlusspanik;...
Thursday, November 4, 2010

A great video

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The next time you hear some idiot commentator or politician talk about the decline of civility in politics remember this video which shows ...

Cuckoo for Cocoa Beach

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We've been back for four days now, huddling by the wood stove, staring out at the nearly bare Sugar Maple, Boxwood and Persimmons, and w...
Friday, October 22, 2010

Counting presidents

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Today I went down to Blue Bell to attend a rally in support of Pat Toomey who's running for a U.S. Senate seat. Toomey's running aga...
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Fried green tomatoes

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A couple of years ago in Florida, while walking through the Market at Marion with Jas and Al, I bought a serving of boiled peanuts from one ...
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Friday, October 15, 2010

Into the tunnel

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It's getting cold around here. Yesterday, for the first time, I lit the woodstove during the day when it became clear that the sun would...
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Signs and portents

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I haven't been paying attention to the astronomy websites recently so it took Alex's mentioning it for me to realize that Jupiter is...
Thursday, September 16, 2010

Heading into the tunnel

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I'm trying to understand why the upstairs thermometer is reading 70.3 and the downstairs thermostat is reading 71. That seems a curious ...
Thursday, June 3, 2010

Where were all these chipmunks when we were growing up?

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Linda suggested that the chipmunks are especially plentiful this year because last year the oaks produced a bumper crop of acorns. Whatever ...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Man caused disasters

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Like most politicians, the ones in Greece have been spending like drunken sailors for decades. And besides stealing or spending every penny ...
Saturday, May 8, 2010

It's windy out there

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Linda is in the kitchen making chicken stir fry as low fat penance for eating a Bridie and a Scotch Egg at the Phoenixville Irish festival. ...
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

The case of the mysterious Rubbermaid

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Since Easter we've had a nine cup Rubbermaid food container hanging around the house. Someone left it here; and we've been surprised...
Thursday, April 29, 2010

Giants walked the earth in those days

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I'm thinking about work. Specifically I'm thinking how lucky I was that I didn't end up crippled from trying to handle the 100 p...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

The chicks are in the mail

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I went to the post office this morning to mail off Stephen King's novel The Stand to an eager Amazon book buyer and learned that you ca...
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Monday, April 26, 2010

Aargh! She's over there messing with the soup

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Linda is working at home today, so things are pretty tense around here. Earlier she somehow found time to come down from the computer room t...
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Sunday, April 25, 2010

Pulling through

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The other night Linda and I got a surprise at Sam and Deb's when they described how funny a comedian at their golf club was. What got ou...
Monday, March 29, 2010

Don't trust the media. . . but you knew that.

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The Tea Party people held a rally in Searchlight Nevada on Saturday. CNN's anchor woman showed no pictures of the crowd but basically di...
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Sully
Collegeville, PA, United States
Born in Norristown, Pa. to loving parents with whom I stayed close until they passed away. Went to Catholic schools back when we learned the state abbreviations and other things in fear of the rod. Studied some and partied a lot at Illinois Tech courtesy of the U.S. Navy and then went off to 'see His wonders in the deep' for four years in return. Married longer ago than seems possible to a wonderful wife. Fell into and mastered a reasonably lucrative white collar craft. Raised a great son who's now self sufficient. Have been lucky to be able to stay close to my brothers, sister, aunts, uncles and many cousins. Have almost always been able to find interesting and productive work when I've needed or wanted it. Have read more books and been to more places than I could ever have imagined as a gawky kid in the 1950's. Still going reasonably strong long past the millenium which seemed an impossibly far away date back when I was in 'the season of the rising sap'.
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