My Own Thoughts

Went to bed at midnight. Got up at 4 am. It is now 8:27 pm where I am. I am a big fat bloated, and exhausted, pig. One more post and I am hitting the hay.

Discovery.com has the archaeological news of a house from Nazareth from the era when Jesus was born. The dwelling and older discoveries of nearby tombs in burial caves suggest that Nazareth was an out-of-the-way hamlet of around 50 houses on a patch of about four acres (1.6 hectares). It was evidently populated by Jews of [...]

Lawrence Alma-Tadema painted this in the 1800s, after a true story from 1421 when a flood carried off a cat and a cradle. The cat jumped from side to side on the cradle to keep it upright. I found the picture on Happy Catholic, who references the next site, Victorian Paintings, which said: “Depecting an [...]

Subject: French view of US Military by Jean-Marc Liotier The original French article is available, but this is part of the translation I found at Blackfive: And that is a first shock to our preconceptions: the American soldier is no individualist. The team, the group, the combat team are the focus of all his attention. [...]

I checked my work email today because I was expecting an email with extra work (and money for that). What I got instead was an email which I thought was barely civil (though that could have been a misreading), asking me for something which I turned in a month ago to the person to whom [...]

I gave blood for the first time on Saturday. Thankfully they let Ron stay and hold my hand. They didn’t have a problem getting the needle in, which is good. That means they know what they are doing. However, since I had to move my hand, it hurt. If I was still it didn’t hurt, [...]

I was driving to Austin yesterday and talking to God. I think he was talking back, but I am not totally sure. I think so, though, because he kept asking for stuff I didn’t want to do. I asked him what I should do and he said, “Slow down.” I asked if he meant my [...]

Worth watching.

based on religion are becoming more common. Perhaps I would not notice them except that they are discriminating against my religion. from American Daughter: Army Lieutenant General William “Jerry” Boykin openly expressed his Christian world-view in public…. But negative coverage of his public expressions of his faith by the liberal mainstream media brought an end [...]

from the Lion and the Cardinal, an aquamanile (a vessel from which water is poured) that will tickle your fictional fancy:

Maybe I need to rethink my attitude. It’s about one’s theology of human nature, particularly one’s own. Those who are most likely to say, “I’m a good person” are least likely to actually be good people. from The Common Room

Day by Day Cartoon by Chris Muir Read about the “Safe” School Czar’s suggestions by Gateway Pundit. It’s not suitable reading for children, even though that is where the list comes from. Graphic and explicit material quoted.

Today, many years ago, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. FDR said it was a “day that shall live in infamy.” I expect most Americans born after the date do not even recall that it exists. An interesting post on a visit to the memorial is in the Mount Vernon News.

William Deresiewicz’s article in The Chronicle says: The Facebook phenomenon, so sudden and forceful a distortion of social space, needs little elaboration. Having been relegated to our screens, are our friendships now anything more than a form of distraction? When they’ve shrunk to the size of a wall post, do they retain any content? If [...]

Grading to do: 20 8-page papers 10 8-page papers 40 revisions of 15-page papers Papers to write: book review vampires trauma multi-generations literature paper Why am I hanging out on fb and reading old novels? Because I am overwhelmed. Maybe tiny pieces. 1. Grade Thursdays papers. 2. Start reading the book for the review.