Found a link to this on my LJ. Maybe I'm too optimistic about world affairs, but I'd been thinking slavery had started to slide down the to-do list.
U.S. citizens are being urged to encourage Sen. Clinton to use her influence to secure the release of the hostages.

From the Time magazine article:

As Hillary Clinton pays her first visit to Pakistan as ( Read more... )

I have a new washing machine.
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Have a great day Robin!


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I've been home all day with a terrible cold. I think that's what it is. It's either a terrible cold, or a very mild case of the Black Death ( Read more... )

This all came up because I was trying to pick out a bottle of wine for Thanksgiving dinner.

I know very, very little about wine( It's a beverage of some kind, right? )

No sooner had the Blue Jays played their final game of the season, than I received some consolation in the mail:

1.  A copy of the big, hardcover 1992 World Series commemorative book. The best part: some of the text was written by W. P. Kinsella, and includes his digressions on subjects like politics and why baseball inspires more fiction than ( Read more... )

I've never taken much interest in the Lambda Awards. I wasn't aware they'd recently changed their policy, electing, from this year on, to only consider books by LGBT authors. But the response to this policy change definitely caught my attention. It's the kind of thing I've always had a sneaking suspicion existed under the surface. But it's more ( Read more... )

Ansel Adams tribute.

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It's officially fall, the weather has started to cool down, and as is usual for September, it's purple and yellow everywhere you look. The fall combination of asters and goldenrod are covering the ground. As many of us were told as children, these autumn flowers are the two sisters who, in order to hide them from approaching enemies, were magically ( Read more... )

 Photographs using an electron microscope.

( Because it's cool. )