Archive for January, 2008
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
This year, both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union Address fall in the
same week.
It is an ironic juxtaposition: one involves a meaningless ritual in which
we look to a creature of little intelligence for prognostication, and the other involves a Groundhog.
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
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The Mars Rover took a lot of pictures of the Mars surface in 2004. Here is something strange in a few of the frames.
The larger area:
The picture is disturbing. The figure differs significantly from the surrounding terrain. It doesn't seem to fit. Sure, it could be a trick of the ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
Every once in a while, one of those forwarded posts have some meaning to me. This one has some value:
The other day a young person asked me how I felt about being old. I was taken aback, for I do not think of myself as old. Upon seeing my reaction, ...
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
I was thinking of one of the past principals that I've worked under and thought about how I recognized something in her the last few times I've seen her - she obviously has a very well built in exit strategy about most everything. Even a simple conversation at a party ...
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
There is a very hateful email circulating concerning Barack's Muslim background as well as the myth that he refuses to say the Pledge of Allegiance. This email copies and pastes from a section of snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp
and the emailer only copies the myths, not the proof that these myths are false. Please ...
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