( lj-cut for length )

Look back through your LJ archive and post the first sentence of the first post of each month this year.

JanuaryI have come to think that the struggle in Iraq is about much more than oil, homeland security, politics, or money. I think the insurgents have articulated it more accurately than the Bush administration or its critics, American and ( Read more... )

( Kansas Board of Education Approves Evolution Language )

If you read this, you are bound to post a comment with a memory of you and me, even if we don't speak often. It can be any memory you want. When you're finished, post this paragraph on your blog.

( Listed below are some warning signs to indicate if your child may have gone astray from the Lord. )

I read that Mars would be bright in the sky tonight, but the stars are so bright here I’m not sure which ones are planets. Despite the glow of my computer screen, the lights across the bay and the occasional car on the bridge just behind me, I have not seen so many stars since the last time I was in the mountains of North Carolina. For the first ( Read more... )

When Sheena and I returned to Tallahassee the day ceased to be beautiful. The brilliant blue sky took on a brownish hue and the crisp October air turned stale and we rolled up our windows. The familiar pound of augmented car stereos resumed and the little town of Marianna where we had vacationed - an hour from the state capital - might as well have ( Read more... )

"Demonstrating a fondness for black humour about their faith or lack of it, Christians, Buddhists, Jews, Muslims, atheists and agnostics sent 951 religious jokes to the website Ship of Fools (Shipoffools.com). Readers had the chance to vote for the funniest, and the most offensive, and more than 10,000 did so ( Read more... )

Taken from site that shows up frequently in my news alerts ( Read more... )

first time I've taken Tylenol just for my eyes