My Own Thoughts

I have been off Quick Weight Loss for 7 weeks. I had gained back a total of six pounds, but I took three of those right back off when I noticed. I am okay with three extra right now. It’s three less than I weighed with BFL. I need to exercise more, but I am [...]

Lost the whole list when my computer shut down because I didn’t move the cursor often enough. Hopefully I can find some of them again. Well, if I can keep them from showing up on this tab, maybe I can. Last entered. For my eldest who asked if Hussein really supported terrorism. Hussein and Terror. [...]

Go here and there are user submitted albums as well.

I have a student whose heroes are Che Guevara, Huey Newton, and Lenin. This is an interesting review of the new movie on Che. Adds biographical info I didn’t know.

An excellent interview with Neal Stephenson at Slashdot.

My eldest was told he would have to write four papers on Christian scientists. I thought this would be an excellent opportunity for him. Unfortunately, the list was limited to a specific one from the teacher. Even so, people like Newton and Galileo were on the list. I thought it would be interesting and thought [...]

Lost the cord to my computer. Lost as in, it broke. So I was without the computer for days. Since I got it back, I’ve been reading political blogs and catching up on the news. There’s been nothing I wanted to say here.

Varifrank has an article on what it means to be an American, as opposed to a European. I liked it a lot. Said a bunch of things I’ve never thought of. Some I had-like the monolingual discussion. Articulate and interesting. One of the things he looks at is the myth “Someday you can grow up [...]

Banana Republican, which, it turns out, is a racial slur, is a great discoursive blog which I am enjoying reading. She’s a republican, so I don’t think she’s too crazy! Leonard Bast, who I’ve mentioned before, also discusses academic related things. Gotta hit these sites more. Keeps me from drowning in my own mud.

This site is 9/11 Families for a strong America. There is a list on the first page of those who signed in. But at least two other 9/11 family members are listed on the guest book page, because that is where they signed in. God, please bless them. Cox and Forkum, September 9th, had a [...]

I admit, I cry at anything patriotic. I cried tonight when Andy Baker came up in his baseball cap, hugged a friend, and turned away from a crowd of over 100 because it was too much. I also cried when I went to Swift Boat Vets and POWs and watched their two ads. I hope [...]

One of my student’s boyfriend was in Iraq. He came home three weeks ago. I excused her absences from class to go to Ft. Hood to welcome him home. Andy, a man who grew up in my church, is coming back to church tonight after a year in Fallujah and a few weeks at home [...]

Having been a grad student in Derrida’s heyday, and not being exceptionally advanced at theory, the responses to Derrida’s death have, I have to confess, tickled my fancy. The Guardian asked prominent Brits for comments. They’re interesting. Here’s a sample: “Denis MacShane, minister for Europe The core of Derrida’s thinking is that every text contains [...]

First, a terrorist is caught with the Dept of Education files in his pocket and a list of schools in the US. Now 25 Chechen terrorists are reported to have entered the US in July. You know them, right? The Muslim extremist group who starved children for three days before setting off bombs and shooting [...]

Powerline said to go to WTAA’s website and vote on whether they should show “Stolen Honor.” When I went at 9:22 ET, they had changed the question. The question read, “Should John Kerry reply to this show?” I think, if he has anything worthwhile (i.e., anything that is not a lie), he should reply. But [...]

Soldiers: Joe Kane in Baghdad. A Line in the Sand Steven Kiel, a new blog. A list of Iraq/soldier related blogs. Conservatives: A Time for Choosing quotes Reagan saying, “There is a price we will not pay.” Hugh Hewitt sends you to various places, conservative and liberal, with his lists of bloggers. Tex the Pontificator [...]

Cartoons for E. Along with excellent commentary. Just the sort of thing he needs to see. His dad suggests he (dad) go goth, to convince son to stay on the straight and narrow.

When we get paid this Friday, I want to Paypal a donation. This is to remind me. Pray for Vickie, breast cancer.

E came home today asking about a website argument which compared Bush and Hitler on 27 points. I asked him what they were and he didn’t remember. We looked it up when we got home. This site is definitely propagandistic. But a thinking person is going to see through at least 20 of these easily. [...]