The Ramblings of Weesatch Joe

 My dog is a bit neurotic. I'm not exactly sure when it started, but I can say with certainty that we are there. With her security blanket She's developed a serious case of FOMO - Fear Of Missing Out. We can be sitting on the couch, side by side, her snoring contentedly while stretched out on her half of the sofa, and I'll get up for some water, to stretch, to get a snack, or to use the john, and suddenly she's wide awake, her head on a swivel, wondering what's going on, who's attacking, what's there to eat and why didn't she know about it beforehand. I can tell her to stay, to relax, that I'll be right back, but she'll hop down, possibly do a (literal) Downward Dog or two, and follow me to the kitchen, the pantry, or down the hall to the bathroom. If I dare to put up the baby gate to keep her from free-range snacking in the cat's litter box (gag), she will whine, pout, and randomly go back and forth from the couch to the gate, afraid of miss...

Legend says that when faced with Santa Anna's demand to surrender his command at the Alamo in late February of 1836, Lt. Col. William B. Travis' reply was a singular blast from his 18 pound cannon - heavier, louder and more powerful than anything the dictator drug along from Mexico. The massive blast was more symbolic than anything, the Texian garrison's blustering echo of the "Come and Take It" from Gonzales the fall previous, daring Santa Anna to do just that.  Last night, the President of the United States and the British Prime Minister jointly fired off the modern equivalent of Travis' 18 pound cannon, ordering US and British planes and ships to strike multiple targets in Yemen. History will determine whether it was merely a symbolic blast or if it will, in fact, deter further terrorist attacks on international shipping and American and British warships acting as security.  This is not the first time, nor will it be the last, that Americans are forced to b...

Running On & On   If a run-on sentence -  Compound, complex;  Subjects and  Verbs and  Pronouns and  Adjectives and Adverbs and Conjunctions and Exclamations; Ellipses and non-terminal punctuation Separating Words, clauses, phrases (some parenthetical), Going on and on and Never quitting, Pushing forward, Sometimes looping back and Regrouping, Regathering, Restating what wasn't completely stated before - If a run-on sentence can keep going Then, so can I.