My Own Thoughts

A Constrained Vision has a post on the National Anthem Project, attempting to teach people the words to our national anthem. Supposedly 61% of American adults don’t know the words. So I thought I would see if I did. Here is my attempt: Oh say can you see by the dawn’s early light what so [...]

We arrived and easily found parking. Thank goodness! The parking in the lots nearby had gone from $3 to $15 or $20 for the evening. Ouch. Ours, however, ended up being free because we were there for the premier and because we were so early. We had about an hour standing around greeting people… I [...]

We flew to Atlanta a day earlier than the premier. We brought our clothes we were intending to wear for the premier, of course. Since it was supposed to be 40s-60s, I brought R a sweater. (His jacket has seen better days.) However, he decided he needed a new jacket, rather than just wearing the [...]

In Atlanta we stayed at the Renaissance Downtown, a Marriott Hotel. The bed was easily the most comfortable either one of us had ever slept in. I’d like one for our house. They don’t seem to have a problem with sagging in the middle, which ours at home do, and they are both firm and [...]

the government allowed, which unfortunately means we as a people contributed to, a murder. A murder of an American. A murder of a woman. A murder of a disabled person. A murder of a domestic violence victim. If you need to be convinced or reminded, go here and read. Thanks to Euphoric Reality for pointing [...]

Apparently the Tennessee government decided to add “Choose Life” to the options for license plates. Of course the ACLU objected, saying that if “one side” was presented, they should both be presented. The courts disagreed. Right Wing Nation offers some pro-abortion alternatives such as the ACLU was calling for.

Is this what we were working towards? Redneck’s Revenge alerted me to the story of a Muslim who converted to Christianity. Now he is being faced with the death penalty as a Muslim, for not being a Muslim any more. His FAMILY informed on him to the courts/police/whatever. So much for minority religious rights.

Our flight was easy to catch, even though we’d been running behind. We didn’t have any trouble at all. It was a smooth flight and very enjoyable. They served lunch, which was a surprise. I enjoyed the turkey sandwich. I asked for iced tea, enjoying the idea that it was offered. But I forgot we [...]

What premier? The premier of the TV series Best of the Best 2 on Mav TV, not yet available in Houston or Atlanta. In May of 2005 ten models and ten photographers went to Cancun for what we thought was a workshop with filming and a contest included. Silly us. Look at the title. Really [...]

for a woman who didn’t have to die, for a woman who was starved to death by her husband with the government’s approval, for a woman who may have been beaten to get in the shape she was in (according to one expert doctor whose word has turned around a different case). March 31, 2005 [...]

According to The Scotsman, there is a group of people in Brazil who have no colors in their language, no numbers, no creation story. They’re a very laid back group of people. …Professor Dan Everett, of Manchester University, is claiming the language was shaped by the Pirahas’ lifestyle, rather than a “universal grammar” that all [...]

It wasn’t enough that the chef quit. You know, the one who lambasted Mormons, Jews, Christians, and God, but said he quit because South Park was negative to religion. Now Tom Cruise has blackmailed the owners of South Park and gotten the show censored. The scheduled re-run of one of the South Park episodes has [...]

Come on, someone. Leave me a non-spam comment! When I got on my blog on Monday, after having been away for three days, I had 104 comments. All of them spam. I’ve been getting 10-30 a day since then. Update: Overnight I got 43 additional spam comments. Now I know why folks have those funny [...]

Since I am rearranging the house, I thought I would go ultrafeminine on my blog and put up the “pink” version that my husband made for me. But it is no longer available. I guess when the guy hacked our sites ages ago he took it down? I wonder if R will revamp it for [...]

A View From the Eye of the Storm is a thoughtful speech, given two years ago, but just posted, about conflicts in the Middle East. First, it’s not all about Israel. And then he gives reams of examples of how we can know that it is not all about Israel. Then he discusses the size, [...]

is the title of an article in Live Science. It quotes a study of 5,000 couples. How does a husband make his wife happy? #1- emotional commitment Also, those who bring home 68% or more of the money, make their wives happiest. And women like sharing housework, even if they do most of it. — [...]

Read an article about babies born in spite of the mothers’ doctors’ recommendation that they be aborted. It made me cry, of course. I am so for life of the baby. I would like to read the book referenced in the article.

or so my sons tell me. I moved three bookshelves out of the dining room and into the living room. (There are still 3 more bookshelves in the dining room.) I moved both couches and the chair in the living room around. And I moved the coffee table. I did all of that yesterday. Both [...]

Some of you may know I don’t think doctors are gods, even when they think they are. But Good News From the Front has a doc who knows his stuff and is willing to do it, even under adverse circumstances. Go read it.

This last weekend seemed busy, but I don’t know why. Friday night we went to return the pink purse I got that was the wrong color. Then we went to a friend’s birthday party. That was exciting. But we left after an hour because R was tired. Saturday morning R had a shoot. I took [...]