Travel day
Today I’m setting off for California, to Los Angeles and then San Francisco to visit relatives and friends and even to see a few sights. I should be gone until July 25. I do plan to post fairly regularly, since … Continue reading →
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Report on the Fourth
How was my Fourth of July? Just fine, thanks. To begin with, the weather, which had been fairly vile for weeks, turned magnificent for the entire weekend. Unless your goal was to swim (which mine wasn’t), it was perfection itself. … Continue reading →
Comet Wars
I don’t know about you, but this story fired my imagination. It is the stuff of which science fiction movies are made. My first reaction was sheer awe. But my second reaction was, “Hmmm, I guess Star Wars wasn’t such … Continue reading →
Taking the perspective of history on this war
Austin Bay is back home, and he’s rallying the troops–and us. Excellent perspective on the whole bloody thing, in a concise nutshell that includes an analogy to our own Civil War and its aftermath.
Continue reading →Beat the heat (a politics-free zone)
It’s summer. I would bet that, right now, the vast majority of you are living in places that are quite warm, not to say hot. I don’t know about you, but although I love summer–glorious flowers, lazy hazy crazy days … Continue reading →
Prediction on next “change” post
Update: I am currently at work on my next “change” post, and hope to finish it in the next day or two. But I’ve been wrong in those predictions before. The best-laid-schemes and all that, as the poet says: But … Continue reading →
New neuro-con on the block
With a name like “Neuro-con,” how could I not pay attention? He or she (I don’t really know which at this point) is a new blogger who has chosen to remain anonymous for this reason. Neuro-con is a conservative with … Continue reading →
Next “change” post due date
My projection for when the next post in my “A mind is a difficult thing to change” series will be up: some time during this coming week. We’ll see whether I make it.
Continue reading →Testing 1, 2, 3….
garden pride Just testing my ability to post photos. This is my garden (last year), by the way.
Continue reading →Non-news of the day
Non-news of the day: the majority of Americans oppose reinstating the draft, by a margin of about 2.5 to 1. Surprise, surprise! The AP article also reports that “over half” of Americans would discourage a son from joining the military … Continue reading →
Cold feet about the eyes
For those of you who read this post a while back, you might be wondering how my laser eye surgery went. Well, I postponed it. I got a second opinion, and was advised there is no rush at all with … Continue reading →
Gestating change
It’s been almost exactly a month since my most recent post in the “A mind is a difficult thing to change” series. Some of you may be wondering–well, where’s the next one? It seems these things are so intense to … Continue reading →