Collecting My Thoughts

1026 McDonald's sells apples When I wrote about my apple-breakfasts the other day, I had fully intended to write about McDonald's...

1025 Time's Up! If I've ever seen a reason for God to say, "OK. It is finished (again)," it is the story of chimeras (k...

1024 Mule trivia Another thing (see previous post) I didn't plan to write about today is mules, but I found this among my Ohio Farmer...

1023 When my life imitates an Internet search One of the problems with reading on the web is the linking feature. I can never get throug...

1022 Can it get any more crazy? James Taranto and Christopher Hitchens engage in a little name calling in today's Wall Street Journal ...

1021 What it means to have a daughter My daughter stopped by Tuesday to use my computer briefly. She works about 2 miles from here. She ...

1020 Maybe I can’t pronounce phytochemical , but I can eat it An apple a day. My favorite variety is Braeburn, but I will also eat Cameo, ...

1019 Senate Bill 24--protect, promote or deny free speech? A male student who worked for me at Ohio State in the early 90s was taking a wo...

1018 The Rewards System Actually, I believe honesty is its own reward. If you don't lie or cheat, you don't have to try to remembe...

1017 Credit's Dirty Little Secret That's what Jim Aviles of San Francisco called it in a letter to the Wall Street Journal today. ...

1016 Odd headlines for AP Story Who writes these headlines? Did he read the story, or is there something missing? In today's Columbus ...

1015 Fathers for Life Apparently U.S. conservatives aren't alone in their concern about activist judges--Canadians are too. Fathers f...

1014 The Juicy Studio tests for your web page I tried out a few of the tests at Juicy Studio . I found out this web page has 396 links, and ...

1013 If I could be. . .the new meme Robin Lee Hatcher explains a new meme going around called, If I could be . I noticed one of the profe...

1012 Let your voice (or e-mail) be heard Terry over at Summa Mamas wrote to eBay about the recent auction of the Eucharist. Here is part...

1011 How to run a book club Last night our book club had its final meeting of the 2004-2005 year and discussed Alexander McCall Smith’s T...

1010 Funny headlines When James Taranto compiles Best of the Web , he always throws in a few good headlines for a smile. Here’s some from t...

1009 Laura Bush does us (librarians) proud You can watch Laura Bush, the world's prettiest and most famous librarian, do her comedy r...

Librarians around the world wonder about this At least they wonder in public libraries. My recollection is that in academic libraries pe...

1007 Millions killed by Malaria There doesn't seem to be a date on this article about the resurgence of malaria in the United States a...