Pa Rock's Ramble

Welcome to my cocktail of old writing scraps, special memories, and current personal opinion. Please feel free to comment, criticize, or remark in any way that makes you feel better. This effort is lovingly dedicated to my grandchildren - Boone, Sebastian, Judah, Willow, Olive, and Sullivan - golden portals to the future. May they all have a place at the table in a fair and just society. -- Pa Rock (Rocky Macy)

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

An Equal Seat at the Table

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist A couple of evenings ago I mentioned Rodney Glassman, a member of the Tucson City Council, who is exploring th...

Monday, March 1, 2010

Trent Franks is an Embarrassment

by Pa Rock Arizona Voter While my congressman, Trent Franks (R-AZ), may not be the dumbest member of Congress (only because the competition ...

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Arizona Slug Fests

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Arizona has two great races shaping up in the state's Republican primary. Both will be slug fests, not on...

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Donnie and Marie: Cancelled Due to Family Death

by Pa Rock Tourista Sad news in Vegas: Marie Osmond's 18-year-old son, Michael Blosil, committed suicide Friday night by jumping to his...

Friday, February 26, 2010

Las Vegas Update on Reed Smith

by Pa Rock Traveling Uncle I left work at noon today - glad to get away - and headed north to Las Vegas. The drive was serene and uneventfu...

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Court to Decide Who Gets Head

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Alcor Life Extensions, a Scottsdale, Arizona, firm that specializes in cryonics (the fine art of freezing rece...

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Arizona Birthers on the March

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist The Arizona Legislature still hasn't balanced last year's budget, and they certainly seem to have no ...

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

A Terrorist is a Terrorist is a Terrorist!

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist If nineteen young men, mostly from Saudi Arabia, fly hi-jacked passenger planes into both towers of the World ...

Monday, February 22, 2010

A Foggy Day in London Town: The Royal Renditions

by Pa Rock Music Critic The vagaries of my iPod supplied the impetus for this evening's post. The little silver iPod contains my entire...

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Shutter Island

by Pa Rock Film Critic Director Martin Scorsese has done a most respectable job of channeling Alfred Hitchcock in his new release, Shutter I...

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Of Chicken Hawks and Moral Superiority

by Pa Rock Son of the Sixties I will begin with this disclaimer: Although I was the right age to have served in Vietnam, I did not. As sta...

Friday, February 19, 2010

Bad News - Good News for Sen. Frank Lautenberg

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Frank Lautenberg, the senior senator from New Jersey, is eighty-six-years-old. He has been an important membe...

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Mellencamp for Senate!

by Pa Rock Political Commentator The sudden retirement of Evan Bayh from the United States Senate means that Indiana will have an open senat...

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Dig, Plant, Water, Repeat

by Pa Rock Landscaper I'm still destroying and rebuilding my yard, one small section at a time. Last night I planted a standard navel o...

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Bye-Bye Bayh! Don't let the door hit you in the ass...

by Pa Rock Political Commentator Evan Bayh, the man who wanted to be Hillary's veep, but couldn't even carry his home state of Indi...

Monday, February 15, 2010

The Wolfman

by Pa Rock Film Critic The Wolfman is gonna get you if you decide to stroll through the English moors on the night of a full moon. He will...

Race to the Bottom

by Pa Rock Arizona Voter The race is on! Today former Arizona Congressman and right-wing radio personality J.D. Hayworth announced that he ...

Sunday, February 14, 2010

I Can Dig It!

by Pa Rock Master of the Yard I had good intentions of taking the day off and going to a movie, My first choice was The Wolfman , but I got...

Saturday, February 13, 2010

The Second Time Around

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Extinction is such an ugly word, the elimination of an insect, or an animal, or a race of people. Once they a...

Friday, February 12, 2010

Out of Africa

by Pa Rock Evolutionist While Sarah Palin and others with severe intellectual deficits may prattle on about the earth being a mere six thous...

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Joe Arpaio and the ACLU of Arizona

by Pa Rock Maricopa County Registered Voter Joe Arpaio has been the sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, for eighteen years. When he runs f...

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Don't Ask - Don't Tell: The End Draws Nigh!

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Lt. Daniel Choi is a West Point graduate and infantry officer who is also an Arabic linguist, and with those q...

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

The Bloody Orange

by Pa Rock Amateur Horticulturalist I had to drive all the way across the Valley of Hell last fall in order to secure a Blood Orange tree. ...

Monday, February 8, 2010

They Really Are Crazy!

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist The Daily Kos web site (www.dailykos.com) hired a professional polling organization to find out what Republic...

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Arizona Gun Insanity

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Arizona is out of money. The state can't meet last year's budget shortfall, let alone next year's...

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Political Conventions

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist The tea-baggers are in Nashville this week staging a for-profit convention that is so loony even Michele Bachm...

Friday, February 5, 2010

Richard Shelby: A Cracker with Clout

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama, a conservative legislator who is possibly as smart as Alabama's other s...

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Let God Deal With It!

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist The ten Baptist missionaries who were stopped and arrested last week as they tried to spirit thirty-three Hait...

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Right-Wing Tools

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Unbelievable as it may seem, there are many Muslims living in the Middle East who think that Bush's Oil Wa...

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Dead Pool Entries for 2010

by Pa Rock Master of the Dead Pool Last year fourteen people entered Pa Rock's Dead Pool, and six of those won money. I was hopeful th...

Monday, February 1, 2010

Missionaries Are Not Completely Worthless...

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist The Prime Minister of Haiti, Max Bellerive, said that it is clear that the American Baptists trying to take ch...

Offending Google

by Pa Rock Frustrated Blogger I have spent the last thirty minutes trying to post a comment to my blogpost from last night. A reader, The W...

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Idaho Baptists Caught Smuggling Children Out of Haiti

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist A group of ten very self-righteous Baptists from Idaho have been arrested for attempting to spirit thirty-thre...

Saturday, January 30, 2010

God Turns Her Back on Scott Roeder

by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Scott Roeder is a savage who fancies himself to be a human being. He is also a religious terrorist. Scott Roe...

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About Me

Pa Rock: West Plains, Missouri, United States; I'm just me - a solitary wanderer who trekked across much of the world and recently retired to a small farm in the Ozarks. My checkered past includes time spent as an Army officer, high school teacher and principal, real estate broker, child protection worker and administrator, and social worker with the U.S. military. Over the years I have resided in a variety of places including Missouri, Virginia, Okinawa, Kansas, Kentucky, and Arizona. I have also traveled to Germany, Mexico, Canada, Russia, Sweden, Great Britain, Belize, Guatemala, Taiwan, Guam, South Korea, Vietnam, and numerous islands in the Caribbean - including Cuba. I have ridden in a Russian ambulance, hitch-hiked across Moscow late at night, fought an ostrich, celebrated New Year's at a street party in Hanoi, and bicycled across the Caribbean. My travels have taken me to Ground Zero in Hiroshima, the Bolshoi Ballet, China Beach, and the White House kitchen. The nine things in life that I am most proud of are my children: Nick, Molly, and Tim, and my grandchildren: Boone, Sebastian, Judah, Olive, Willow, and Sullivan. Life has been very good to me indeed!

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