My wife scolded me. “No yelling at the TV.” How can I help it? Two outrages that got me fired up today. 1. The president takes credit for a successful Iraq? V.P. Biden says Iraq is one of Obama’s “great achievements.” http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/wash...rah-palin.html What? WTF? You mean the President who refused to support the surge and actually voted against it as Senator? The one who campaigned against the war? ...
It's snowing. I've dreamed of this day for seventeen years. That's how long I've lived in Texas. That's how long I've missed the snow. Yesterday was a l-o-n-n-g day. A student came to take a test after school, and two boys came to put my smart board knock-off together. They were hilarious. It took them two and a half hours.We called the janitor one time who came and brought them a phillips head screwdriver. I was grading papers and concentrating fairly intently on that. Occasionally ...
The sunset choked on flames and coughed to death, the hills, all paling in the shadow light left us no guiding point to compass steps. No earthling thing cried out its nighttime song.
Updated 02-11-2010 at 11:04 PM by Silas Thorne
Each night as the ball retires Into the sea of waves The boiling cauldron it becomes Another world it paves Without its guidance way up there There needs to be another Not as big or illuminating But maybe a little brother The lunar friend that we have Bears many different faces Some nights it is a smile alone Without light for some dark places Some say that he is made of cheese Then ...
Gosh, darn it, there are too many topics I could blog about. I could blog about the Oprah segment on the life inside a convent of Dominican Catholic nuns. What a wonderful group of women who really have it together in the modern world. You can read the transcript and see some clips from the show here: http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Lisa-...de-a-Convent/1. Or I could blog about the death today of former Congressman Charlie Wilson, who led the effort in the 1980’s to channel ...
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