Fellas, thoughts? Now, come on fellas I know you guys have opinions on this. As a matter of fact, I want to hear all of them. I'm not posting again until there's a least 20 comments. Here's the CNN story on...
Hey everybody! Sorry for the silence lately. There was an earthquake in Taiwan a few weeks ago that our internet connection is just now recovering from. Here's some of the latest news:...
I know I'm a day late and a few tens of millions of dollars short, but I would like to announce that, unlike the rest of the nation, I am not seeking the office of President of the United States...
"Why am I pro-choice? It's a simple thing." I simply disagree that having sex causes babies; or that having sex is a choice for that matter. "I would like to see the number of abortions performed in this...
The last week at work has been kind of interesting. People keep coming up to me and giving their congratulations... but it is given with a bit of awkwardness. "Congratulations on getting to stay home!" Their tone leaves an unspoken question...
...couldn't of said it any better: "It's wrong to take a life. It's sin. (That's the bad part.) But Jesus gave his life up willingly to make way for forgiveness for those of us who have taken lives. (That's the good...
Governor Bredesen, along with these and these goobs, want to ban smoking at the blessed Waffle House, among other places. Maybe he thinks it's unsafe. If that's so, I say we should simply burn down these dangerous restaurants. ...
Zach on the Pier Originally uploaded by josiahq. Went to Astoria yesterday w/ Mesh, Julian, and Zach. Astoria was where they filmed Goonies, and it's also where the Columbia River enters the...
I have seen poverty. Not merely the word poverty; the tangible expression of the idea. I once lived in a country where people who are poor are obliged to live side-by-side with filth; and dirt poor people lived...
Why am I pro-choice? It's a simple thing. I would like to see the number of abortions performed in this country decrease, and the (proven) best way to do that is with education, birth control, and supporting every citizen with...
I just paid my bills. I have $100 in my bank account now. I think I'm doing something wrong. At least I get paid Thursday.Every time I hear a car drive by, I get all hopeful that someone is coming...
Here is a clip of Rodney Fox's story of how he was attacked by the great white. The video was taken by Sienna or Kyrie the night we went to hear him speak. The clip is more for...
One of the nicest additions in the latest release of WordPress is the ability to set a static home page. I recently struggled with several plugins that purport to do this “easily” and am glad to see the feature...
Saturday Nite at 8:00 Pacific Time (that's 11 to all the folks back east) we will be doing an in-studio performance at KEXP in Seattle. We will be doing interviews and playing some songs. Everyone back home- you haven't heard...
(I was going to blog a whole post full of stuff, like a whole bunch of post-its scattered all over a desk, but instead I will blog about today's anniversary.) January 22, 1973. Our Supreme Court voted to legalize abortions....
I spent a couple of hours Saturday morning in an elementary school gymnasium watching 10 year old kids play basketball.
I always get a big kick out of that kind of thing and since my children are both grown I do...
I have been reading through a few books recently on Christian Postmodernism: Brian D. McLaren’s “A New Kind of Christian” and R. Scott Smith’s response, “Truth & the New Kind of Christian.” One passage in particular had me thinking...
I can't believe I almost forgot today was Monday the 22nd of January. Thereby being the day Prison Break and the' brothers who can break every law but remain innocent' returns to the air. Yay! I am so...
Lifetime is the purveyor of such movies as; To Be Fat Like Me and Why I Wore Lipstick to my Mastectomy. Ick. The sheer idiocy of those names says it all. But I'm curious if anyone can help me, I...
Well I admit, I really did watch a Lifetime movie last night. Normally I avoid them like the plague. The formula for a Lifetime made for TV movie is very simplistic, if you have seen one, you know the...
I'm not sure this is going to work, since what you see on your monitor might not be the same as what what I see on mine. But I did take my computer upstairs and compared the "after" photo with...
today marks my 37th week of pregnancy-- 3 weeks left until calliope is due. i am pretty uncomfortable at times, but in general i feel great, which doesn't make it seem like we are going to have a baby any...
Yesterday, while sitting in Barnes and Noble, I started reading Barack Obama's book "The Audacity of Hope." Now Im not a very seasoned political thinker, but I have to admit that something about the book really grabbed me. Not only...
Caleb continues to love all things about letters. for his 2nd birthday he got the “fridge phonics” set, which comes with all the capital letters and a little thing that says what the letter is and what sound it makes....
Geni.com is a family-tree-making service that's very easy to use and it's free. It also has a simple way to invite other family members in the hopes that they'll put in their own data and add to your family tree. Data...
Last night Buck woke me up not once, not twice, but thrice. The first time he was making some God awful choking noise that I turned on the bedside lamp to make sure he wasn’t yaking up Dog Chow...
Attended "Evensong" at Magdelen College (Oxford) Saturday. It was a major highlight of my trip thus far. Right out of the movies (like "Shadowlands"). With candles burning everywhere in the splendid cathedral, and with a great pipe organ accompanying, the choir...
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