Collecting My Thoughts

1133 Women Blogging Remember when I was complaining maybe a year ago I couldn't find good women bloggers so I started my own category ...

1132 Battlefield Access It's not hard to get access in Iraq writes Michael Yon . "A journalist not wishing to embed with US forc...

1131 The Jackson Family Circus Even ignoring this story as I have done, yesterday it was difficult to turn on the TV and not find breathless...

1130 Architectural Digest Cover John McCain and his rich trophy wife are on the cover of this month's Architectural Digest . Even wi...

1129 The Media Generation The Kaiser Family Foundation reports on the media and your children (too late for mine--they're adults). S...

1128 Final plans We're going back to the funeral home this morning to finish our "pre-need" plans. We've learned a lot t...

1127 Small, shrinking comfort Apparently the Australians have discovered that even though your brain starts shrinking after age 60, that ...

1126 Look out Christians; we’ve got us a live one The new crime drama, The Closer , starring Kyra Sedgwick playing a CIA-trained interrog...

1125 A Homeschooler looks back Brian gave us a wonderful summary of his year of teaching. Now MaMa T tosses the catalogs into the trash ...

1124 There's good news from Iraq, including libraries Arthur Chrenkoff is an Australian who keeps track of the stories you don't ...

1123 Why are Democrats asking for return of the Draft? Dr. Sanity asks and answers this question . "It is only the Demoncrats who ha...

1122 Speed limits and traffic cushions The news today is reporting that law enforcement is allowing a 10+ mph cushion above the 65 mph li...

1121 Some Sanity on enabling behaviors Dr. Sanity in response to a claim that Feminists don't kill anyone so why not focus your energ...

1120 Sounds just like my kitchen "Since it opened in 1986, Rigsby's has continually reinvented itself, offering new dishes on a ...

1119 Too Ugly to blog about When I read Debra Burlingame's article last week, the story was so ugly, I didn't finish taking notes...

1118 Where are they now? Over at LISNews, Brian says he is shocked "by the decrease in education and funding to support school librar...

1117 Just don't call him late for lunch Howard Dean is quite successful at getting himself and the DNC into the news--like the ignore...

1116 The Columbus Rose Festival When we moved here 38 years ago, we went around to see all the local sights and sites--Old Man's Cave...

1115 Basic Black is Back Oh goody. Basic black is back for fall. I can whip out that black number I bought in 2001 with the sparkly bod...

1114 Second hand porn The Lion's Den, a local (chain?) "adult" porn store has a large print ad for "turn your stash int...