My Own Thoughts

I’m guessing they aren’t too interested in having company, if they’re only announcing a public meeting five days beforehand. A plea from Tom Burnett Sr. to the wonderful people of Somerset (The ad copy below is running in tomorrow’s Somerset Daily American.) My son Tom confronted a terrible moment of truth. Faced with a plot [...]

Maybe not. This Black Five story has a guy who entered the service at the age of 61.

How do you know who agrees with you? Take a couple of political candidate quizzes. Vote Help Glass Booth WQAD’s, which I thought was the best but was down today

Who could ask for a more exciting site? And the pictures are great too. Including a 1734 sketch by a missionary to Greenland of a sea monster. And an 1890 story from the Tombstone Epitaph about cowboys shooting dactyls. Marco Polo reported in 1271 that on special occasions the royal chariot was pulled by dragons [...]

and a fairly funny monologue can be seen here

Among the most impressive artifacts found in the tomb is a black, gold, and blood-red sword inscribed with pictures of dragons. Xu described it as “the most beautiful and best-preserved sword ever found in this part of China.” Also discovered among the dead were gold and bronze artifacts, along with elaborate silk gowns. But the [...]

on policital attacks available at PolitiFacts from the St. Petersburg Times.

The crescent-topped tower Not all of the Islamic symbolism in the Flight 93 memorial is hidden. One of the things that Tom Burnett Sr. protested from the beginning was the overtly minaret-like Tower of Voices. The Tower is formed in the shape of an extruded crescent, and even has its top cut at an angle [...]

M doesn’t ever want to have anyone come over to our house. I thought it was a bit odd. But it turns out that he is ashamed of our house. “Everyone else’s house is so white. The walls are white. The floors are white. Even the furniture is white. Although sometimes it’s not. Our house [...]

Tech Angel for helping me with the new look on my blogs. I am loving Travelouge, as slightly modified by you.

to add to my reading list. I now have four Catholic blogs and am not Catholic. So tonight I was bouncing around Google and I found an article on Changing Churches. The author is against it. He says there are no perfect churches. I agree with that. He says YOU are responsible for your church. [...]

I know who I’m not voting for: Fred Thompson (unfortunately) John Edwards Mike Huckabee But I don’t know who I am voting for. I’m going to have to look into this more.

I guess the three glasses of tea are warring with the melatonin and winning. I am prepared for classes tomorrow, although I am not sure I like what I am doing. And I have WAY too much stuff to carry up. I’ll probably have to make two trips. Tomorrow for Dinosaurs and Dragons we’ll read [...]

The painting “The Rape of Sabine” is the header for a theme. It’s kind of overlaid over another picture of a hill. See it here. Who the heck would put that particular painting at the top of their blog?

All of the following are images I found while searching for “why study art.” 2500 BC Sumerian necklace, gold leaves and lapis lazuli Storage jar decorated with mountain goats, 3000s BC, Persia Silver bull holding silver drinking cup, Persia, 3100-2900 BC 8th Century BC, King and goat? Prancing Horse, 1350 BC, Egyptian This is a [...]

Why Women Wear High Heels? Because we want to look tall, being so short and we want to feel good, feeling so sad Why Women Wear High Heels? Because we hate ourselves? Or maybe love ourselves or we want to look pretty being unattractive Why Women Wear High Heels? Because you don’t have to be [...]

They throw your center of gravity off, put pressure on your back and can create muscle cramps. Sounds like some kind of torture device, right? Think again. Those are just some of the health problems women who wear high heels on a regular basis can expect to have, says Dr. Machelle Seibel, professor of gynecology [...]

Nasser Rabbat, a Syrian professor of Islamic architecture at MIT, told the Park Service not to worry about the giant Mecca oriented crescent at the center of the Flight 93 Memorial. He said that since it does not point quite exactly to Mecca (it is off by 1.8°) it can’t be considered a proper mihrab [...]

The sun was shining. That might sound like a good thing but not to a family of little vampires. My kids are so used to the cloudiness of the northwest that on bright days like today Magoo walks around with his eyes squidged shut and one hand out in front of him yelling at me, [...]

Voting for someone you don’t agree with 100% or not voting at all and letting someone else pick the president. Even though my candidate has withdrawn (and was clearly not viable), I am still going to vote on March 5th here in Texas.