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  • Today's quote: "Some things have to be believed to be seen." -- Ralph Hodgeson (very true!)

  • An e-mail my son forwarded to me.... What sex are they? ZIPLOC BAGS - male, because they hold everything in, but you can always see right through them. SHOE - male, because it is usually unpolished, with its tongue hang…

  • Summer's Almost Gone... ....thank you, Doors-song-in-my-head. Actually, it was OFFICIALLY over Last Tuesday or something (who gets to decide this stuff and make it so?)... But now, I know it's TRULY over. I put awa…

  • Happy Friday, all! And go read this link....unless you're a FAN of our current pResident... http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/030925/7/5dmdb.html

  • "The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to." -- Albert Camus

  • Not a lot to say right now. More later, perhaps...

  • The weekly quota...the status quo...whatever! Annotated quotes, courtesy of the Troy Somerset-Gazette...... "Decisions determine destiny." -- Frederick Speakman ...this ought to be taught along WITH reading, writing,…

  • Still on a Bruce Cockburn kick here....lyrics to one of my favorite songs... 'If I Had A Rocket Launcher' Here comes the helicopter -- second time todayEverybody scatters and hopes it goes awayHow many kids they've mur…

  • Any Bruce Cockburn fans out there? I'm just listening to 'Nothing But A Burning Light' for the first time, and it's REALLY good! I've always been a fan, but this one is better than the other one I have on CD (don't rec…

  • People say I'm crazy doing what I'm doing,Well they give me all kinds of warnings to save me from ruin,When I say that I'm o. k. they look at me kind of strange,Surely your not happy now you no longer play the game,Peopl…

  • Thanks to ahhyee for the following link: http://www.progressive.org/aug03/zinn0803.html Maybe Howard Zinn is right? Especially after Ted Kennedy's remarks the other day! ...and thanks to dingus5 for the following quo…

  • I'm very impressed by what General Wesley Clark has to say, so far. I've just been to his website, reading his 100 year vision for America. You can read it also, by clicking on the link below: http://www.americansforc…

  • Thanks, Xanga! You guys that hang out here are THE best! Have a good day!.... And here's another quote...the Ralph Waldo Emerson quote for the day... What is the hardest task in the world? To think . . . . -- Ralph W…

  • Quote for thought... "The utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact." -- Alfred North Whitehead Even concrete FACTS start off as ideas.....

  • The morning so far...1. Got up2. Got dressed3. Shaved4. Had breakfast5. While eating breakfast, checked e-mail6. Left for work7. Cursed at traffic8. Arrived at work, logged into my phone & pc9. GOT MORE COFFEE!10. Tu…

  • RIP, Johnny.....

  • I remember........where I was on 9/11/2001. 2 desks away from where I am now when the news came through.......where I was earlier this year, when I heard about the Columbia.......where I was in 1986, when news came throu…

  • Smithereens-mania this AM...lyrics from a fave song... Baby Be Good Baby be good, baby every night Better be good, you know it's only right Baby be good, 'til I come back home Baby don't be bad 'cau…

  • Good morning! How's everybody doing today?.... From the AWordADay people.... tu quoque (too KWO-kwee) nounA retort accusing one's accuser of the same offense.[From Latin, literally thou also.]"The Republicans sold acc…

  • Stuff done and/or observed: -formatted & reloaded the main PC. Somehow, it got a virus! So I loaded Windows XP Pro after formatting. I like it, so far! Spent way too much time trying to get the daughter-unit's wi…

  • "One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be." -- G.K. Chesterton (I think I APPRECIATE more than I used to....…

  • "Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant, a change takes place....New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort....The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to thei…

  • "Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy". -- Cullen Hightower (Hmmm.....I'm getting loonier the older I get.....)...

  • Music and comedy....Wow, the weekend FLEW by, didn't it?Saturday night, we went to see Marshall Crenshaw at Arts, Beats, & Eats in Pontiac. He played acoustic guitars, and had an acoustic bassist & another guitar…

  • John Sinclair on Iraq War 2003 "They're doing things they've never done before in America! They're just declaring they're gonna go and kick people's ass and take their stuff. It's just thuggery! And everyone else in the…

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