More support for our soldiers from this Administration.
Most patients at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington have a lot on their minds: the war they just fought, the injuries they came home with, the future that lies ahead. The last thing a wounded soldier needs to worry about is where the next meal [...]
Here are some ideas: Office Bricolage.
Maybe now teachers will stop telling students like me to “sit still”!
The most detailed study ever conducted of mundane bodily movements found that obese people tend to be much less fidgety than lean people and spend at least two hours more each day just sitting still. The extra motion by lean people is enough to [...]
Branford Marsalis played in Morgantown last night. It was a very good show, and I only wish I’d been feeling a little better, as then I would have enjoyed it more.
It’s a four piece band: Branford Marsalis on saxophone, Joey Calderazzo on piano, Eric Revis on bass, and Jeff “Tain” Watts on drums. Michael and [...]
From the BBC:
A 45-year-old man is believed to have become the last Jew in Afghanistan after the death of the caretaker of the only functioning synagogue in Kabul.
It has emerged that the caretaker, Ishaq Levin, aged about 80, died of natural causes about a week ago.
His Jewish neighbour, Zebulon Simentov, lived with Mr Levin in [...]
Via Memer I came across this news story about giant “animals” that were constructed to roam free on beaches. The giant Animaris Rhinoceros Transport is just amazing, and I wanted to see how it worked, so I went to the link to the strandbeest website where I found a link to the ANIMARIS RHINOCEROS TRANSPORT, [...]
For Christmas Michael received (from me) Seasons One and Two of “Star Trek: The Next Generation”. Luckily for me, he doesn’t mind when I make fun of them.
But that wasn’t what I wanted to write about.
We watched “The Measure of a Man†(Season 2) and I was surprised how it brought to mind “The [...]
I was quite pleased to stumble across an interview with Jay Bakker in the NY Times. Several years ago Terry Gross interviewed him on Fresh Air, and now, as then, I am both intrigued and impressed.
In contrast to his father, who larded his show-biz patina thick, Bakker is unpolished and self-effacing. He has mild dyslexia, [...]
There are lots of pictures around my house. Pictures of friends, pictures of family, and a lot of black and white pictures—copies of pictures that I borrowed from my grandmother, and a few from my mother.
There are certain pictures that draw me in: A pictures of cousin Billy, who died as a child, sitting on [...]
I am quite disappointed. All the hype and we don’t have more than two inches outside–much of that from last last week.
I feel a bit like a petulant child.
Everyone *else* on the east coast got snow! Why didn’t I get any snow? How come they got snow and I didn’t?
Right.
I suppose I should be pleased [...]
(If I say “in my copious spare time”, can we all agree that it should be read as if someone had actually invented the sarcasm mark as a unit of punctuation, and that “in my copious spare time” can be assumed to be inside sarcasm marks?)
Wonderful Snow!
Just checked the weather. The latest estimate is 4 to 8 inches!
I love snow!
Of course I’m fighting a losing battle with a cold, so it doesn’t look like I’ll get to enjoy it, but it’s still pretty to look at!
It also means that we probably won’t be heading out to my parent’s house [...]
Completely out of nowhere, I have suddenly received several e-mail suggestions for my Morgantown Things That Are No More… page.
Several people have seemed to enjoy going through this list as much as we enjoyed writing it, which makes me wonder whether it’s something general about human nature, something specific to Morgantown, or a little of [...]
Corporate America, which boasted more than 112,000 pension plans in 1985, has since terminated about 80,000 of them. As a result, the share of working Americans earning a pension has dropped from more than 35 percent in 1980 to less than 20 percent today.
And now the country is more and more seeing these seniors, who [...]
1,370 Americans have died in Iraq.
A chronological list of lives lost
An alphabetical list of lives lost
Digital Memorial for those killed in Iraq
I swear that it’s only a few wingnuts that do stuff like this. The rest of us are really okay with it.
At least I hope so.
These are rather cool.
Seriously. Go check out the site. Here’s the main gallery.
Michael and I just keep going, “Wow.” “Wow.” “Holy cow!”
Congratulations on your inaguartion.
Keep in mind, however, that the mandate was not for you, but against your opponent. If you had done any worse against one of the state’s biggest slum lords, I would have been ashamed for you.
So please, go out there and work hard, it is why we elected you after all. But [...]
When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.
A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand, [...]
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