We would expect this kind of anti-intellectualism from Sarah Palin or Joe the Plumber, but hey IBD joined in the fray of liars and know nothings. In this story, titled ” How House bill runs over Grandma ( I am...
Newsweek article on a different style of relationship A video Great commentary from an atheist polyamorist And the AOL Health Front Page article... .the reaction to the Newsweek story just keeps on giving Mentioned in Polyamory In The News An interview with Robyn ...... "Polyamory is simply...
Ten years ago I was looking toward this season of my life with dread: our children's teenager years. I was told, then, that as toddlers they would step on my toes, but as they grew up, they'd trample my heart. ...
This is not good.
This, on the other hand, would be amusing — even satisfying, in a schadenfreude kind of way (it couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of intolerant hypocrites!) — if I didn’t think they were...
It’s hard to believe this kid is going to be starting Pre-K this year. It seems like just yesterday he was rolling around in his room, trying to figure out a more efficient way of escape.
Next week we start...
John Wilson:
The Planning Commission voted Monday afternoon to send 10 new City of Chattanooga proposed annexations on to the City Council for its consideration, though some commission members said there were a number of unanswered questions about the city’s plan...
That was the line that cracked me up… via Cole, who deserves an Amen and Hallelujah chorus for his assessment that this is how you do things in civil society (my words, his thoughts).
Virginia-5 - my hat is off to...
Today was Fun Monday, unfortunately I was not able to make it to make a Fun Monday entry. It was hosted by Karmyn . She asked us what is growing in our garden. Please go over to hers and see...
I can see how easy it is to get trapped in a welfare state. I realized a while back that since my current income is so low, I qualified for certain things, and for a moment I thought, “It will...
As promised, not a criticism of the right… And, not my own. Just an illustration of the kind of thinking that leads one down a dead-end alley and holds one there permanently. Illustrated beautifully in the words of...
"I wanted you to see what real courage is....It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway
and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes
you do."~ Atticus Finch, in Harper Lee's, "To...
Let's debunk some common misperceptions about library management. These are relatively simple ones that I think I'm qualified to tackle given my recent 8 months as a midlevel manager and my years as a librarian and a parapro before this...
So this week’s I ♥ Faces theme is Funny, Silly Faces. As I was gleaning my pictures from the weekend, this picture of my niece Genevieve made me giggle. First, it is just funny how messy an almost-two year old...
The Planning Commission will review the city’s plans for the first phase of annexation on Monday at 1 p.m. A recommendation for approval or denial requires a majority vote.
Last week, Regional Planning Agency staff reviewed the 10 areas under consideration....
I read a lot of books, but those take a certain amount of devotion and time that I don't always have or want to invest in that way. So I also read a lot of magazines. A couple of the...
Suddenly the Braves seem like a team with a little resilience and fight in them, don’t they? I didn’t watch much of the games this week, since they were almost all late starts, but winning 3 of 4 against the...
I don’t often remember my dreams, but this is one I can’t forget. this is how I remember it, two days later:
it was something of a scene out of one of CS Lewis’s space trilogy books. it was dark out...
OK… First - this is going to be my last post critical of conservatives for a while. There’s been a lot of crap going on that makes me angry and sad and I’ve had plenty to say about it....
Forbes just ranked my alma mater #14 among all institutions. Pardon me while I cheer for that tiny little Kentucky college that helped make me the person I am today. *grin*I'm proud to be a Centre College alum - the...
Back, by popular demand…
• You have to watch this video to the bitter end to catch the real money quote (after a bunch of clips of Fox”News,” talking heads discussing quid pro quo with regard to the two journalists who...
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