Collecting My Thoughts

504 Happy Blogiversary Today is the one year anniversary of my first web log post. My first one looked like this Thursday, October 02, 2003 ...

503 The Blind Man at the Bus Stop We saw the blind man at the bus stop as the bus was pulling away to the east. We were driving west at 35...

502 The Debate I went to bed about 30 minutes into the debate. Kerry was clearly the better debater, to my inexperienced ear. But what made ...

501 I've got my eye on. . . Women bloggers. As luck would have it, I clicked through "next blog" today and found three women b...

500 Catablogging--Traveling with a Cat, pt. 1 A Globblog is a blog that supports the global economy; a clogblog is a blog from Holland; and ...

499 Going without health insurance We did that--the first year we were married. When you were young in the 60s you didn’t think much about i...

498 Why an old computer game can't pick a president Over at Tech Central, Nelson Hernandez Jr. explains why Douglas Kern's recent ar...

497 A Rich Childhood "You can't describe the vastness of the Panavision prairie to East Coasters. Either the idea bores them--sorr...

496 Head Start is a Dead End for Children Strengthening “Head Start” is under Bush’s budget plan if he is re-elected. The program is nearly ...

495 Phones in Dorm Rooms Disappearing The Keptup Librarian points to an article that reports how phones in dorm rooms are disappearing and ...

494 House by the side of the road Every morning this past summer on my way to the coffee shop near Lake Erie, I passed a 1950s ranch along...

493 Wired Magazine: The Plot to Kill Evolution Inside the crusade to bring Creationism 2.0 to America's classrooms is the subtitle of ...

492 Is he Nixon? Dean? Edwards? Clark? Gebhardt? Sharpton? Or just plain ol’ 1970s John Kerry? Kerry’s campaign made Vietnam an issue, and c...

491 Kitty Kelley's Three Reasons to Elect Bush Andrew Ferguson's review of Kitty Kelley's Bush Family "pathography" be...

490 Women Bloggers--Where are You? My blogroll has a small list of women bloggers, but it has certainly been a pain to track them down. To...

489 There is no free lunch Apparently, the Oprah audience who received the new Pontiacs will be paying about $7,000 in taxes. This was...

488 Kemp and Cisneros--What a Team! "Of all the Cabinet secretaries who have served in recent decades in Washington, none has done mor...

487 Martha and Teresa George Washington’s election as President was a disappointment to his wife, according to a web site on the Presidents ...

486 Hurricanes and Politics I've now heard three things about how the hurricanes in Florida and the southeast might affect the coming el...

485 Is this the medical care liberals want for us? Although I have a degree in Library Science, I never took a "kiddie lit" or you...