My Own Thoughts

David Orland at Boundless Webzine: The great thing about music, the really powerful thing, is that the very act of listening is to accept an invitation to moral sympathy. In this way, listening to a song is no different from reading a novel. In both cases, the audience, whether listener or reader, is invited to [...]

Well, I do. But Nancy Pelosi doesn’t. She was fussing about Donald Rumsfeld saying that those people wanting us to pull out of Iraq are like Hitler appeasers. And she said, “we have now been in Iraq longer than we were in Europe for World War II.” No. No, we haven’t. The war started, for [...]

is what All Things to All is talking about here. 30 days of not buying anything you don’t need. And that’s really need, not think you need. So groceries and gas to get to work are okay. Eating out probably isn’t. I am thinking about it.

Austin, TX has been having a drought. It’s one of those where you only get to water on certain days. And they ask you to get low flush toilets. But Live Science has an article that says the drought, which has brought Lake Travis down 16 feet below its August average, has unearthed an ancient [...]

Today at the library I found A Black Woman’s Civil War Memoirs: Reminiscences of My Life in Camp With the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, Late 1st South Carolina Volunteers by Susie King Taylor. I read it today. It is well-written, easy to read, and gives a small glimpse into the life of a soldier’s wife [...]

Coming right after my last post, you might wonder if this is goth, too. But it’s not. The book is titled Rough Medicine: Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail. It is about the doctors who plied the waves on whalers from 1647 to 1840. Did you know that in May 1747 a whaler [...]

I have a few friends (four) who are goth. I like them and don’t even care that they are goth. I’ve never gotten why mainstream people are afraid of goths. Tattoos don’t bite anyone. Pink hair is hot. Black hair is great. Black clothes are easier to match… Then I talked to one of the [...]