Collecting My Thoughts

Don't you just love it when "easy to use" technology sites for non-technical folks like me are so filled with jargon you haven...

How to tell a real peacemaker Check out their beliefs. Statement on the War in Iraq by the Mennonites (Mennonite Church USA), at the Global...

Cha-Ching a ring ding at Christmas This is the time of year that every household that has donated in the past, ends up on the mailing list ...

Conservative Christians will be blamed As the election heats up, we'll hear all sorts of nonsense and sneaky asides about the power of ...

How to get a driver's license in Mexico No biggie. No test or hassle. Of course, driving is a bit more "intuitive," and you m...

4323 Fire your accountants, Warren Buffet, the second wealthiest men in America, thinks that rich people like him don't pay enough taxe...

4322 Support your candidate Before the Christmas [aka holiday] rush, why not send a small check (or however you do it these days electronic...

4321 How will liberals respond if there is victory in Iraq? If headlines in the Nov 15 USAToday are any indication, here's how it will g...

Dear Jim McCann, CEO and Chris McCann, President 1-800-Flowers Carle Place, NY You didn't ignore Christmas! Good for you! I see th...

Ohio State hires aide to General Petraeus From OSU Today "The Mershon Center for International Security Studies and the Department of ...

If your company ignores Christmas--Barnes & Noble Carolyn Brown Director of Corporate Communications Barnes & Noble.com Dear Ms. Bro...

4327 Ethnic differences in surviving Alzheimer's Disease The on-line edition of Neurology (Nov. 14, 2007) reports that Latinos live a...

4326 New magazine for secular homeschoolers I collect first issues, and I'll probably miss this one since I usually go for news stand ...

If your company ignores Christmas don't expect my business. Dear Melissa Birdsong, Vice President, Lowe's Companies, Inc. Thank you...

DDT is no panacea and is not always appropriate for every exotic disease, but neither does it kill millions of people every year the way th...

Does anyone remember MaryRose? There doesn't seem to be a photo of this fashion statement of the 90s, although while looking I have fou...

Planted Questions What's the big deal? Why shouldn't a candidate, Mrs. Clinton or someone else, have people from the audience who ...

4321 Small waist, full hips My husband stuck his head in my office tonight and said, "Did you hear the news? Women with small waists ...

Myth Under Standings Some of my favorites. I would've made this a Thursday Thirteen, but there were too many of them. FDR got us out of...

4320 Will illegal immigration be a wedge issue for the GOP? Dental Flap thinks it will be and that Mort needs to get away from the Beltway...