The Indianapolis Blackstockings

A fascinating story from NUVO about the first black baseball team in Indiana in the late 1800s.

http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/the-indianapolis-blackstockings/Content?oid=2806572

Funniest cat pic you'll see today. Guaranteed.

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"Most of us never choose to believe in our country . . .

"We just come up short on better ideas." -- Barbara Kingsolver, "The Lacuna."

There seems to be a bug in the jury system.

I just had to ask to be excused from a jury because the system simply would not enter my explanation for my vote. It would not allow me to enter my vote without an explanation either. Only asking to be excused worked. then, not five minutes later, I was asked to serve again, and and could not even enter the system to start my jury service. Is the jury system acting up right now?

A Geographical Oddity

A scene from "O Brother Where Art Thou?" Funny scene, even funnier in kinetic typography.

Ewwww! Bobby Jindal is going to be here in Indy later this month!

Just saw an ad on the bottom of a thread -- evidently it's to do with the NRA convention, which is bad enough. Tickets on sale now.

Dear GEICO: This ad is not funny!

Not in these tough economic times. Making a joke out of somebody being fired? Really?

And for the "lighten up Francis" crowd, yeah, I'm overreacting. But this ad just rubbed me the wrong way.

Anybody else have a doctor's office that doesn't seem to get the concept of a mail order pharmacy?

I saw my doctor in Feb. This week, I called (Wed.) the office to get prescrptions renewed. On their prescription line, I left my name, DOB, phone, the prescriptions I needed renewed, the pharmacy name, phone, and address. The recording said it would take 48 hours to get the prescriptions called to the pharmacy. That is normal, though I have no idea why that would take so long. I called the pharmacy today to see if they had the prescriptions in their system yet so that I could get them paid for and get them shipped. They still didn't have them. I called the doctor's office. I could not seem to get the operators there to understand what I needed -- they kept transferring me to the prescrption.line. I had to call back three times before I finally got to talk to a nurse and she said she would take care of it. About an hour later, I got an e-mail from the pharmacy -- actually I got three. Three different e mails ordering the same two prescriptions multiple times, and nothing about the other two. I called the pharmacy to see what they had. They had nothing. It was by then too late to call the doctor's office back. So now I get to wait until Monday to go another round. Is a mail-order pharmacy using e-script really so hard to understand??

Silent thread for American democracy. 1776-2014

OK, so I'm kinda down today because ACA hasn't reached me . . .

But Rachel is right: who can resist that shit-eating grin on Joe Biden's face?

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