An editorial from today's Times Free Press: Audit time for the mayor Mayor Ron Littlefield and his chief of staff, Dan Johnson, persistently pursued six months of painstaking audit work in an unsuccessful attempt to find something wrong with RiverCity's management of...
It's stylish. It's all the rage. It's definitely "slimming". And everybody's at least trying it on for size.
Fashionistas and marketing geniuses are green-styling everything
from entire clothing lines to lightbulbs. Retailers can spot a consumer bandwagon a thousand miles away...
In 2007, the 'artist' Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, took a dog from the street, tied him to a rope in an art gallery and began starving him to death.For several days, the 'artist' and the visitors of the exhibition watched, emotionless,...
The dog had some minor surgery today, but she's back home and feeling fine. While she convalesces, we'll be following the returns from Pennsylvania... UPDATE: just an aside: I've been watching the coverage all evening, and have noticed that both candidates...
I read the tail end of this chapter today.Here are my ending thoughts:"Our view must be tempered by a fullness from 30,000 feet. If we, in our minds, assume our rightness is tied to our perspective, we are mistaken. Are...
Today, after about a week of inundating myself with Chattanooga’s cultural pulse, it occurred to me that I love Chattanooga in the truest sense of the word. The city is alive and vibrant. It is not, however, perfect and as...
Other than the obvious answer, "'cause it's silly," my reasons are as follows. 1. Because the philosophy inherent to earth day is in error. 1a. Because God commanded men to have dominion* over the earth, not "preserve" it. --*Gen. 1:28...
After a more-than-wonderful trip to Louisiana, we knew that we needed to get back home by a certain day, for we had to have Annie at the children's hospital to have an ultrasound done on her kidneys after having several...
yalp... these little hands have been bustling around at a frantic pace getting ready for the supa dupa Clothesline show. Here is a little peak at what will debut there. sorry about the pic quality kids, but this girl is...
After two years platooning with players who subsequently have bounced around the league having trouble finding jobs, Matt Diaz probably felt a little more comfortable with his job heading into 2008. The right-handed batter had earned a starting spot outright,...
I got a kick out of this article simply because I honestly did not know that Israel needed spies when it came to the United States. I always figured that pretty much what was ours was theirs.
The part of the...
I am in a dilemma, two in one…a U.S. government report released last week said that there is “some concern” about BPA stemming from experiments on rats. Researchers linked the chemical to neurological and behavioral problems along with some cancers. okay. ALL my...
Can we just be honest? Our economy is tanking and we are in a recession. I don't know why the politicians won't admit it. Come on federal reserve be honest. There are too many economic indicators fall downward for us...
Pennsylvania democrats vote today in the presidential primary, a very important contest for Senators Clinton and Obama. Be sure to watch The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer at 7pm for the latest information just before the polls close at 8pm in...
The only thing worse than an unelected ‘charity’ asserting its will over the City’s infrastructure is a morally-bankrupt, career-politician doling out real estate contracts to his cronies.
(more…)...
Despite the pollen, I am doing some of my work from home on the deck this morning. The temperature is magnificent, and the backyard songbirds are only occasionally drowned out by sirens on Brainerd Road or jets roaring overhead. I...
And parts of Kentucky.
While on the road yeasterday, somewhere in the middle of Kentucky, I started sneezing and the skin around my eyes itched so badly I wanted to remove them from my face. When we got to my mom’s...
TMI...but...For those of you have commented on how good the biscuit looks...I am not lovin' it anymore: += I am afraid Speedo Steve is rubbing off on me!And now back to our regularly scheduled program:SundayI went for a swim at...
My mom (aka Vieja) left for work this morning, but asked Fuller to do a morning chore of picking up sticks. This has dissolved into Fuller picking danleeONS (dandilions) with no interest in finishing the stick request.
It’s a beautiful morning...
Gas is up to 3.50 on average nationwide. And for the first time ever, Americans are going to use less oil this year than the last. (20.61 million barrels a day!) I think is mostly good news. I miss the days...
Anna's challenge has me searching for all things "green" this week,and I've found much of ours "lives" in the garage. Kevin-the-tile-guy advisedme on purchasing this drill for Tad a while back. He liked the tool's specs;I just thought it was...
There was the conversation about the brother.....taking time to listen to others' description of what a brother is instead of immediately picturing our own.Then we talked about 3 Words, 5 Minutes which I will more than likely use as a...
Apparently I have an affinity for "jive"--not "talkin'" but dancin'.
Just five months ago I fell head over stilettos into Helio Castroneves & Julianne Hough when they performed The Jive; now, I'm totally crushin' Kristi Yamaguchi & Mark Ballas.
Get to...
recent comments: