Collecting My Thoughts

4916 The Hope and Change theme Barack Obama certainly isn't the first politician to take a biblical theme and run on/with it, and he wo...

Comparing Hospitals Here's a handy website you might want to browse. " The Hospital Compare website was created through the effort...

Hand Hygiene A gift basket? I know that these days you need to award employees for using a tissue to sneeze, but this award sounds a bit ov...

When religion throws the dice DICE, is an acronym for Dynamic Integrated Model of Climate and the Economy, and the fundy environmentalists ...

For a returning soldier Chip, a father of 4, is finally home. I've never met him, but his parents are members of our church (he was ra...

Children 100 years ago sound very similar to 60 years ago, or 30 years ago, for that matter, the last time I had experience with the 9-12 a...

4909 Cashing in on Green The new Global Warming-Environmentalist religion has many altars where you can stop to open your wallet and pick o...

My new pink jeans Actually, I sort of look like a large Easter egg. I bought them at the Discovery Shop (Cancer resale), Talbot's, and...

4907 Otis Moss, Obama's new pastor I blogged about him last summer because he was pastor of the week at Lakeside . I attended one of hi...

Listening to Obama, variation on a theme Oil prices continue to rise it should be no great surprise next they'll raise our taxes If we e...

Magpies and Blackbirds One of the more interesting (and gross) reference questions I answered when I was the librarian in the Veterinary Me...

Asia's new threat Is it an increase in cancer, or is it the social justice crowd looking for a cause. This looks a bit odd to me. ...

Kill the children, save the trade of Silent Spring That's what environmentalists in rich western nations do. Here's an article fro...

The empty suit Who knew someday those boring Soviet history classes I had in college would come in handy. Obama’s an empty suit that needs s...

A slow awakening When he was a resident in the early 60s, Watson Bowie, Jr. performed occasional abortions to save the life of the mother. ...

Highway fatalities down Ohio had six; Michigan three fatalities over the Memorial Day week-end. Lowest in 38 years. I would say a higher pr...

Another Ohio Poverty Push Dear Governor Strickland, The Dispatch reports today you’re making a big issue of Ohioans living in poverty. When...

Bookstore clerk A magazine, a Father's Day card, and a cute new notebook with pink paper for blogging were all I placed on the counter ...

Lake Erie Living, first anniversary issue Lakesiders! Pay attention. There's a beautiful article with great photos of the Drackett ho...

Blue Planet in Green Shackles is the name of Vaclav Klaus', the Czech president, new book. He is a vocal opponent of anthropogenic (man...