Ask Me Anything August 2014

And on the last day of the month, we wrap up with Ask Me Anything! August 2014. Fun round, as always; and equally “as always”, I hope to get more nifty questions next time out! Quince asks: How do you feel about the series Dr. Who? I haven’t really seen enough of the newer version to have a solid opinion, but what I have seen is fun, and sometimes spooky, and sometimes downright creepy, and often funny, and sometimes deeply emotional. The Daughter is quite the fan, although her enthusiasm seems to have waned a bit because she loved DavidDown the rabbit hole….

Continuing the cavalcade of questions that need answering, as usual, my friend Andy McBride brings the goofy! In the tv show ‘Airwolf’, Michael Coldsmith Briggs III is hiding the advanced helicopter from the CIA as leverage for them to look HARDER for Stringfellow Hawke’s brother in Vietnam. Now granted, we are dealing with the CIA here, one of the most powerful organizations in the world. Wouldn’t they use every resource they had to find the chopper that cost then more than $1billion to design and produce? I could sooooooooooooooooooooo see them finding where it was and no one EVER hearingDown the rabbit hole….

OK, here is another set of answers! All of these were posed by Instagram users over there. One thing that I find really interesting about social media is the way there is some overlap, but it’s definitely not 100 percent. There are people who read this blog and with whom I’m Facebook friends, there are those with whom I’m FB friends and whom I follow on Twitter, there are those whom I follow on Twitter and Instagram…and there are those I only know on one particular platform. It’s neat to see the interplay and the different “feels” of each particularDown the rabbit hole….

As usual, I got some political questions this time out, and also as usual, I’m putting them below the fold, so if you don’t want to go down my own personal liberal rabbit-hole, you don’t have to! And remember, if you want to ask something, please do! Roger asks: Is the problem with the Hobby Lobby SCOTUS decision that it restricted birth control to women, or that it reaffirmed the personhood of corporations? Both. The idea that an employer should be able to require his or her employees in any way to abide by their own personal religious views strikesDown the rabbit hole….

OK, time to get started! As always, Roger is in the leadoff spot: What do you think is your worst vice? Do you just live with it, or do you want to change? Either my tendency to swear a lot, or my sweet tooth. Definitely one of those two things. I tend to have pretty good control over my swearing, although sometimes I’m reminded of this exchange from The Simpsons: HOMER: Think you can cut out the casual swearing? BART: Hell, no! I do try to limit swearing in front of people to folks I know who won’t be offended,Down the rabbit hole….

Just in case you missed it, we’ve reached that time again, so Ask Me Anything! I’ll take queries via the usual routes: e-mail, Twitter, Facebook, or comments on this post. I’m already getting good questions, but there is always room for more! Any topic welcome! Ask things that are serious or silly! Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….

Yup, it’s that time again, and I promise I’ll actually get through them all this time. In the future, I won’t do Ask Me Anything! during months when I’m starting to prepare for a move. This time, however, no moving! So go ahead, folks — Ask Me Anything! (Answers will come on the back half of this month, as always. Questions may be submitted via comment on this post, or e-mail, or Facebook, or Tumblr, or Instagram, or GooglePlus, or Parcel Post when accompanied by something nice, like chocolate.) Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….