My Own Thoughts

A parchment from the first century BC is telling its history. The parchment’s story begins around the mid-first century B.C., when a copyist in Alexandria, Egypt, began working on a blank parchment to copy the second of 11 books by Greek geographer Artemidorus of Ephesus. “This papyrus is returning the most ancient geographic map of [...]

Jan. 27, 2006 — Archaeologists have unearthed a 3,000-year-old skeleton of a man who appears to be clutching a dagger and is posed as though he were about to thrust the weapon into something, or someone, according to a Cultural Heritage News report from Iran. The unusual burial is the first of its kind for [...]

Thomas Jefferson said, “Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.” Clayton Cramer said, “He was describing this problem–financial interest is the reason that a corporation exists, and unless those who run the corporation are remarkable people, they [...]

The day after I got an email asking for prayers for Quincy, a Marine, who had been injured by an IED and couldn’t hear and might lose his eyesight, Michelle Malkin posted on those injured by IEDs this week. Quincy wasn’t in the list. I’m not sure why. I guess it’s possible I got the [...]

Fox says the filibuster attempt failed and the vote for confirmation will be tomorrow. I am assuming, hoping, praying that Alito is confirmed. I am also, of course, pleased the filibuster failed. Frankly, the choice by a bunch of politicians to sit down and whine is as disturbing, or maybe more so, as when my [...]

The story of one woman’s flight from terrorism, 25 years after her family’s flight, is a fascinating one. A perspective you won’t see in our papers is offered in the article at Gates of Vienna.

Three armed men posing as police officers tried to make their way into a home near Memorial Park but the homeowner fought back. Police say that around 3am Monday, three men walked up to a home on Kiam near Arabelle and started banging on the front door claiming they were police officers. Someone in the [...]

I ran with R today. We went 2.1 miles. It seemed to take forever. We ran slowly. But, except for one forced stop for three steps at 28 minutes (my knee was hurting off and on and R said to stop), I ran continuously the whole time. Of course, it took us 36 minutes. Ouch. [...]

In case you read the whole opera post and wondered what the deal was with the police and our pastors, here’s the deal. They’d run into each other while out shopping and decided to eat dinner at Chili’s. While there their waitress came over and said someone was robbed at gunpoint in the parking lot. [...]