Archive for January, 2008

Groundhog, the chief

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.

Statue on Mars?

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

http://tinyurl.com/27okp5 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 ...

Old Age

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, ...

Exit strategy

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 ...

Barack Obama

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 ...