What a beautiful display and a very dramatic artistic comment. One of the things that struck me most about the hub-a-balue over Bush coming to Chattanooga was a news story showing the students at CSAS. It said...
As if Keith Ellison wasn't absurd enough, there's this. (Found in this post here.) "Rep. Tom Tancredo supported freshman Rep. Keith Ellison's controversial swearing-in on the Quran, but when the Colorado Republican wanted to relax in his office with a...
(Click for bigger view.) Sam and his poppy. Christmas, 2006. The boy was born with attitude. (Note: We had NO IDEA about Sam's, uh, finger placement until I yanked the pics off my camera...) New pics can be found at my Flickr page....
In case you've suffered head trauma recently and just now came to, the President of the United States was in town today. Joe has a tidy round-up of local bloggers who blogged about it. The President's motorcade pulled RIGHT...
Well so, last Friday I got my hair done. I wanted to get highlights but not crazy ones.I don't know if you can tell from this picture, but these are crazy. I look blonde. And high maintenance. ...
GetAFirstLife.com is hilarious for anyone who knows anyone doing Second Life.. OK, so I opened a second life account over Christmas.. but I'm not doing it anymore I promise.....
So you crawled out from under a rock this morning and got caught in some hella traffic? How long did it take before you stopped approaching every little knot of state troopers and offering up your "strong mouthwash" story,...
In their pre-visit security sweeps, the Department of Homeland Security and the Secret Service stopped by the house today to investigate, as I had been deemed some type of biological-weapon security threat because of my salmonella poisoning. When they entered...
Papercuts is a solo project of Jason Quever of Vetiver. I just got a hold of the new Papercuts album Can't Go Back and I can't stop listening to it. It's nothing groundbreaking -- just a laid-back, hazy folk album...
The room in which I often eat lunch has recently been endowed with televisions, and so, like many others, I've taken to nonchalantly glancing at one while conversing with tablemates and eating my daily fare. After all, they're all...
Of all the pictures I took, I think this photo best conveys the energy and joy of the people who participated in today's protest as Bush visited Chattanooga. Note the little girl in the lower right, covering her ears. And here...
President Bush at Porkers Originally uploaded by josiahq. Joseph over at Widgets sent this to me; a picture of President Bush during his trip here in Chattanooga heading into Porkers BBQ on...
Did you miss me? I thought so... So .... quick thought..... Today is the day that us, the religiously clueless, point to our co-workers heads after lunch and say, "You've got something right there" *pointing to middle of forehead.*...
I was surprised by this when I read it this afternoon, but even today, private ownership of land is really only tenancy with use rights. As in feudal England, the sovereign is the ultimate owner of land. The...
If you use Myspace and Firefox at the same time, chances are that you have been extremely aggravated at how slow all of the embedded Flash objects make Firefox. It got to the point, with all those stupid Flash games...
I believe - ...that just because two people argue, it doesn't mean they don't love each other. And just because they don't argue, it doesn't mean they do. I believe - ..that we don't have to change friends if we understand that...
Mildred, the church gossip, and self-appointed monitor of the church's morals, kept sticking her nose into other people's business. Several members did not approve of her extra curricular activities, but feared her enough to maintain their silence. ...
Weighing public health concerns against individual rights Multiple initiatives involving tobacco are coming before our Legislature this session. A keyword search on the General Assembly’s website yielded 100 results. Judging solely by their abstracts, not one of the proposals deals with...
i am perpetually reminded that "i have my hands full" with three, little boys. despite the truth of this statement, it is difficult to graciously accept this comment over and over and over again. yes, we have a...
Wild Florida - near the southern terminus of the Florida Trail The Florida Trail, one of eight National Scenic Trails found across the US was featured on Monday Febuary 19th in an article in the Orlando Sentinel. The article interviews Florida...
The aggressively photogenic John Edwards was cruising along, detailing his litany of liberal causes last week until, during question time, he invoked the "I" word -- Israel. Perhaps the greatest short-term threat to world peace, Edwards remarked, was the possibility...
Well, obviously it isn't Sunday. But I didn't participate this week, even though I did have a picture to share. And then today, Tracy at Picture This did an excellent post about including Moms in the pictures with the kids...
Oh my gosh, it feels absolutely wonderful to spend hours working on a file only to stupidly run a compiler which happens to output a file of the same name, thus completely overwriting my file and ripping hours of hard...
In case you wish to express yourself - Bush landing in Chattanooga Wednesday Feb 21 at approximately 11AM. Bush will only be at Erlanger for ~20 minutes. He will, however, be at the convention center for a long time. A peaceful...
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