[NOTE: This post of mine sparked the following reflections.] Our responses to music are closely tied to emotion as well as memory. People who are brain-damaged and cannot speak can sometimes access music and even lyrics; different parts of the … Continue reading →
At this point I hesitate to report on “news” connected with the Boston bombings, because so much released by the MSM about the aftermath of this story has proven false. So take the following with more than a grain of … Continue reading →
I had a small white fluffy dog, a smallish-to-medium-sized cockerpoo. We got him when our son was eight years old. No one in our family looked like him (the dog, not the child), although I suppose we were all about … Continue reading →
Horrific explosion in a fertilizer plant near Waco, Texas, with many injured and many feared dead. I am not a conspiracist. And this is, after all, a fertilizer plant. Fertilizer is highly explosive, and I don’t see why a fertilizer … Continue reading →
We’ve had false reports about this sort of thing before, but… A suspect has been arrested in the Boston bombings, identified by video. No doubt more will be coming on this, but that’s all there is as of now. UPDATE … Continue reading →
[NOTE: The following case is one of the reasons I think the ricin letters may have been sent by someone out for revenge.] “High Noon” is such a dramatic movie, it’s easy to forget what starts the whole thing rolling: … Continue reading →
…apparently sent in letters to President Obama and Senator Roger Wicker (R). The incident not only reminds us of 9/11—after the WTC attacks, you may recall, there were a series of anthrax-letters to politicians—but these ricin-letters were intercepted as a … Continue reading →
This might have some meaning as a clue, although a rather non-specific one: The explosives used to kill three people and injure 176 at the Boston Marathon on Monday were most likely some kind of “pressure-cooker” devices that sent sharp … Continue reading →
…and what’s more, they seem to be more truthful about their weight when asked. But the most interesting thing to me about the survey described in the article was this: “Everybody underreports their weight but women do it more,” Howard … Continue reading →
While in the car yesterday I was listening to some Boston-based talk shows, and I heard some people going on and on about their shock at what happened at the marathon, and how it destroyed the sense of safety they … Continue reading →
Here’s some information about the eight-year-old Dorchester boy who was killed, and whose other family members were injured. Only one person in the entire family of five, his brother, escaped physical injury, but he is understandably severely traumatized psychologically. Very … Continue reading →
[UPDATE 9:40: Now we’re hearing more about the terrible injuries, which include a lot of amputations. I haven’t watched the more graphic images, and don’t intend to. But it occurs to me that one of the few pluses of this … Continue reading →