Collecting My Thoughts

Another great line Good thing an Obama aide said it. Democrats have no sense of humor and would have sought an impeachment. "Every fa...

Here's a great line Randall Bloomquist of WGST, Atlanta, reviews Graig Havighust's book, "Air Castle of the South," (U. ...

4230 Totally Optional Prompts Alumni of Poetry Thursday have started up Totally Optional Prompts, 1) the prompt will be posted on Saturda...

4229 Use of the word "elite" Nonfiction Readers Anonymous (a terrific blog by the way) thought it was amusing that Laura Ingraha...

Good for you, President Carter! The former President of the United States, Jimmy Carter (who sometimes forgets he has no authority, moral,...

Tossing the chips Those of you raised in rural areas who may have had the opportunity in your youth to walk barefoot through a cow pasture...

General Sanchez' view of the press, Congress and the war effort Ricardo Sanchez' harshest words were for the media, then Congress a...

Canning the spam At e-Commerce Times, Erika Morphy writes Two men have been successfully prosecuted for sending out millions of unsolicit...

Documents on Jena 6 You can read the documents about the beating of a white teen by a group of black teens, an incident that had nothing t...

Armenians in my family tree When the Democrats decided an apology from the Turks for the slaughter of Armenians nearly a century ago was th...

Starting the Christmas wars early It's sad that Christians, who according to scripture, should be the least materialistic in observing d...

4221 He says, she did Dick Morris isn't my favorite source of information--he goes to whatever political wing will pay his bills, but h...

4220 How social theory has hurt minorities and women Forget Anita Hill for the moment. What Clarence Thomas has done with his memoir ( M...

4219 e.e. cummings on richard dawkins e.e. cummings wrote to his sister Elizabeth in 1954: "if you take Someone Worth Worshipping (a...

Monday Memories--The Stalkers Usually when I write a Monday Memory, it is something personal--a family or employment snippet. This memory s...

4217 What kind of a blogger am I Mother would be so proud. I'm off the charts with "no greed." width="300" height...

The itty-bitty buckeye My daughter's Chihuahua doesn't think her buckeye sweater is the least bit cute. She couldn't wait to ...

Friends of the Creche--Heartland Cradlesong 2007 This morning after church we bought our tickets for the November 9 performance of the Uppe...

Is your profession a calling? Several years ago I read an op-ed type column in the WSJ (it's hard to tell in a liberal newspaper if you...

4213 Bad news, good news about education As I turned off the vacuum cleaner and was wrapping the cord, I heard Edward Crane of Cato Institu...