I am nearly asleep, but I don’t want to be. I am experiencing one of those moments when the timing of daylight and socializing don’t seem to be in sync with my internal clock. I don’t want to...
My husband came home with a bottle of White Zinfindel the other night. I was very impressed that he remembered what I like. Wanna hear how he did it? He went into the store and asked the clerk "what do...
Laura Briggs, Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002). “What stories did they tell themselves,” Laura Briggs asks of U.S. policymakers, “that enabled them to see their collusion in the...
Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virgina (New York: W.W. Norton, 1975). Philip D. Morgan, Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998). Rhys...
A little exercise for our Theory & Practice class. It may feel a little elementary, but I think there is something clarifying about the idea-material conditions binary. Seldom has a historical phenomenon so concerned (and disturbed) intellectuals as...
As a follow-up to Thursday night's post, here are some more details from the Brainerd debate. The audience wrote questions on index cards, and though I had a small stack of those to start with, quite a few more were handed...
See, two posts in one day, just so everybody knows I’m not dead. In any case … I’ve found a kindred spirit in the blogging world: The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks....
Last weekend we travelled to Nashville to see Ron Paul. I took a few photos. Most of them were pretty awful because of the light situation in the building, plus I had to use the digital zoom to get a...
If you haven't read The Life and Death of Jesse James by Josh Olson yet*, go check it out. I won't say much about it here, as I don't want to spoil the carefully crafted story for you, but it...
I picked up the latest issue of Newsweek this afternoon while taking a break from studying and ran across a nice essay by Maria Shriver entitled "An Authentic Life," part of their cover theme focusing on "Women and Power." She writes,...
This is what I get for putting off reading this week's issue of The Pulse till today, I miss a great story. Chuck Crowder's piece on The Mayor's closing of Miller Park to boost interest in his as-yet-to-be-built Homeless Campus...
Some bath-time fun thanks to dad!Well, just wanted to give everyone a brief update. We have really appreciated everyone's comments, advice, prayers, encouragement, etc!! We have been doing better the last few days. I (Amy) have started letting Gus hang...
M19 on 10/12/07
My oldest son Eddie, who is 11, stayed up with me this evening and we captured a bunch of the Messier Objects. This evening we were able to capture M19 (pictured above) as well as M25, M26, M28...
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