"Legal Rights for Illegal Immigrants" headlined for today. So far, the most obvious difference from a normal Monday is that the freeways are wide open (remember the '84 Olympics?) and the downtown closed intersections are clearly marked and the detour signs prominently posted ( Read more... )

The three Early Girls are only 12 inches high, but already loaded with blossoms on every side. Should have green globes pretty soon, then blushing pink...my imagination reels to the thought of home-grown tomatoes.

Steady on, old girl. They are only blossoms yet.

Rapper Snoop Dogg has been arrested after a fracas at London's Heathrow Airport that left seven police officers with minor injuries ( Read more... )

A friend of mine was saying that this week should be an easy one, a quiet time in between periods of hectic activity. Well, I don't know about that. The last few days have been incredibly busy: for the first time in my life, I've been carrying around an appointment calendar and address/phone book and the accounts book I keep for bills due ( Read more... )

No tomatoes yet. I go out every morning and every evening to say hello and look for fruit. Sigh. The weather has been cool and partly cloudy. Thus the reluctance to grow. They are still only about 12" tall, with the tomato cages looming high over them ( Read more... )

Federal funding guidelines for community-based abstinence education listed the following as #1:

Abstinence curricula must have a clear definition of sexual abstinence which must be consistent with the following: "Abstinence means voluntarily choosing not to engage in sexual activity until marriage. Sexual activity refers to any type of genital ( Read more... )

Once again, President Bush has slapped down his own Congress by making two recess appointments to the gang that oversees and rubber stamps the Social Security and Medicare reports. The two appointments were supposed to be people representing the public interest. When Congress objected to renewing the current placeholders, an unprecedented ( Read more... )

When you read this article, you will realize why I wanted to add this post.

I did not realize the problem was so widespread and included children at school.

All I know is, as with that type of person in face-to-face encounters, running away is not the best answer.

I haven't read Holy Blood, Holy Grail in quite some time, but after all the recent controversy, I'm considering scouring the bookshelves up here and in the garage until I find it, and then re-reading it ( Read more... )

Seen in the neighborhood: my neighbor, mooning the world, as he leaned over his bed of roses, weeding and watering. Should I say anything? My niece collapsed in a fit of giggles and my nephew turned beet red, even the tips of his ears. I pretended I didn't see a thing. And the neighbor seemed blissfully unaware. He'll have a sunburn in a sensitive ( Read more... )