A well-liked former state legislator (or so sez Marc P.) from Memphis goes on trial for his parts in Operation Tennessee Waltz this week. The KNS (AP) story doesn't mention former Hamilton County District 4 Commissioner William Cotton's trial...
When I was in sixth grade, our entire class - which consisted of about 50 students and two teachers - took a field trip. I do not remember where we went or what we learned. I only remember...
Im the kind of guy who's always thinking about rotation and the various cycles our lives go through. Human existence just appears to be brimming with life and death, beginnings and endings, dawn and dusk, conception and delivery, etc. I...
Every semester before final exams we have two weeks of plagiarism, I mean speeches. Prior to the speech classes we bring a list of 40 different topics to class and tell the students to choose one to talk about....
folks, this is a king salmon, one of the few we caught in Alaska this last week or so. It was an amazing trip and we had a blast being boys in the wilderness... there were seven...
The link is to the news article that suggests more misguided policy. I guess it comes as no suprise given the murderous nature of the criminal in chief and his administration....
In the tradition of three-day weekends, we usually have a choice: go to Lake Martin or stay home and work on a major project. Since the living room project was brought to a standstill due to an unfortunate change in...
This is an image that puts a bookend at the beginning of the trip for me. These are the Wagner Apartments and we saw them at the end of our first full day in Vienna. They were designed by Otto...
Two sisters, one blonde and one brunette, inherit the family ranch. Unfortunately, after just a few years, they are in financial trouble. To keep the bank from repossessing the ranch, they need to purchase a bull from the Stockyard in...
This is a depiction of the face of a tiny bronze sculpture I made years ago. It's a strange little bald guy grimacing and holding his bum -- yeah, weird. I know. I had based it on the idol shown...
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, or Iz, was a pure-blooded Native Hawaiian singer who gained noteriety outside of the islands with his 1993 album Facing Future. This post's doodle is based on the album art. Kamakawiwo'ole's medley of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a...
Happy Memorial Day! I'm going to try to post a photo or two of my trip today, and maybe add a few others over the course of the coming week.We visited Vienna (and environs) in the company of some friends...
From this discrepancy between the Hebrew books and our own arises the well-known question as to the age of Methuselah; for it is computed that he lived for fourteen years after the deluge, though Scripture relates that of all who...
Why am I running out of coffee? Because I'm running out of coffee money. Why out of coffee money? Because, as Michaela so kindly reminded me in a recent comment, she, like many of you out there (you know who...
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