Along the Craggy Coast

Somewhere between Oregon and Mexico, the pooch had a good swim, battled a few crabs, even confronted a sea lion corpse. Ellroy seemed taken aback, but took it in stride.

Study seeks better understanding of suicide - Military News | News From Afghanistan, Iraq And Around The World - Military Times

some disheartening stuff.
my take -- multiple tours in horrific combat zones.
re-instate the draft, and the stats just might change.
but of course, that's a no-no in 2012 America.

Study seeks better understanding of suicide - Military News | News From Afghanistan, Iraq And Around The World - Military Times

Franchise Opportunities for Military Veterans

hey, lookie here -- another one i wrote for the annals of www.militarywallet.com.

http://themilitarywallet.com/franchise-opportunities-military-veterans/

Guerilla Job Search

a new one i scribed for www.militarywallet.com. check it out -- especially if you're one of the 27.6 million Americans outa work...

http://themilitarywallet.com/guerrilla-job-search/

Natural

History. Trip to USC, sidebar @ the museum.

dachshundlove

great 'lil blog about wiener dogs aka dachshunds. plethora of pix. goes good with a tub of ben & jerry's.
(no, i'm not a single middle-aged woman...[despite my inclinations])

http://dachshundlove.blogspot.com/

Ellroy's World

Kinda reminded me of that Andrew Wyeth painting...

Veterans say marijuana eases PTSD

Veterans say marijuana eases PTSD

-- and yet the VA is quite open to prescribing hardcore narcotics for all manner of pains. go figure...

House Republicans to Obama: Scrap Vegas speech, work with us on college loans - ABC News

hope & change, people.
what's that they say -- "fool me once..."


House Republicans to Obama: Scrap Vegas speech, work with us on college loans - ABC News

His Second...

Gopher Snake. Don't worry, we released her. Ellroy didn't seem to mind. Good break from the writing.

nearly seemed domesticated

he's just happy

deep thoughts as ellroy humps my leg

they got it good...