here's something interesting/scarey that I came across this evening-- "What happened was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to be governed by surprise, to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that...
It's almost Friday! I put this up on youtube this past weekend, but have been so busy since I forgot about it. It's just a silly little thing, but it cracks me up......
********** during mother's day out, one of the other parents came to share one of her child's stories from the previous week. i guess the pre-k teachers had been talking to the kids about what they might...
Yes, I know it's a re-post of a digg.com article, but I don't care. This is what I have been waiting for! Even though it's a 3rd-party site, I think it should be trustworthy. It looks like...
The bimonthly journal American Book Review has published a list of the top 100 first lines in novels. It's a better selection than I've come to expect from these sorts of things, so long as I ignore the inherently arbitrary...
A quirky, likeable, fair, and weekly podcast, usually around 45 minutes, of the world's game from an Anglo-centric angle. I laughed, I cried, I subscribed (on iTunes)....
I really need help centering the blog so that the header img doesn't repeat and the blog doesn't stretch with the window. Any thoughts on how to change my template? Any help would be appreciated....
Yes, really. Former Parks and Recreation Director Rob Healy today sent a letter to the City Council requesting an appeals hearing. The letter reads: Please have this letter serve as notice of my desire to appeal my termination as the administrator...
So it looks like Mason has just been sitting in his music room and while he is SUPPOSED to be putting the finishing touches on our EP, Nite You Surprised Me, instead he is blowing our minds. He has...
When Craigslist first set up shop in Chattanooga last month, some were skeptical that the online classifieds page would fit a more rural market. "In cities with a highly computer-literate population – like San Francisco, New York, Chicago – there’s...
Remember when you used to listen to WUTC? When they had good DJ's with good local programming? Remember when it had some relevance to the city? Guess what? Now the station wants your money. Their Spring fundraising campaign starts up on April 20th....
There's a question being asked as to why the liberal/mainline denominations have allowed their conservative "brethren" to set the public image of Christianity, especially with regards to the media. The only "liberals" you'll see on TV who make Christianity...
Politicians and travel - what a wonderful combination for humor ...Perhaps this will explain it all: A Washington, DC airport ticket agent offers some examples of why our country is in trouble! 1. I had a New Hampshire...
Let me say up front that nothing written here is to be understood as paradigmatic. I am simply trying to describe, for my own clarity, these present experiences that are my own and no one else's. If I...
See, for about $3 a day, you can knock 10 years off of your needed savings in retirement. If you want to retire at 65 and plan to live until 80, you've got to save a lot. But if you...
As I've said before, I tend to believe that you can come to terms with anything if you can come to terms with it on an aesthetically formal level. It might work for the "big decisions about the future," too....
I had a random thought today while sitting at the computer, I was wondering if any of you people out there had any idea's, articles, or whatever on this idea. First let me say, I do not claim to...
From Fr. Georges Florovsky's The Ever-Virgin Mother of God: The teaching about Virgin Mary The whole dogmatic teaching about our Lady can be condensed into these two names of hers: the Mother of God (Theotokos) and the Ever-Virgin (aiparthenos). Both names have...
There are some more folks discussing last week's passing of local arts booster and writer Bart Whiteman. Here's his obit in the Washington Post. There's a thread discussing his passing at the Theatreboy blog. He's also being discussed at the brand spankin' new...
I don't think so. It's just my thing. Truthfully, I'm a little embarrassed that I missed two. One was careless. . .its vs it's. . .answered impulsively pre-coffee. My bad. The other one was a...
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