Dear World ( Read more... )

If you are bored or have free time, or actually even if you have nuclear weapons to disarm, a cure for cancer to develop, and open-heart surgery scheduled within the next fifteen minutes, you should take a moment and visit Mr. Howley's OLD SCHOOL, where I am currently guest-blogging.  I am posting about cool things related to American history, but ( Read more... )

The National Zoo’s former panda pair, Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing, produced 5 living offpspring during their two decades together.  National news sources gloss over the fate of these former cubs in their exuberant reporting on the birth of the new baby panda, only stating briefly that “all five died within days.”  But Post archives and other sources ( Read more... )

I can't pass up the chance to link any interested party through to this article in today's Washington Post. Having invested millions of dollars in becoming like Bethesda, business owners and residents are now concerned that Silver Spring is becoming like Bethesda.  I personally find a little gentrification infinitely superior to rampant poverty and ( Read more... )

Sharon tagged me for this over a week ago, and I fear I may be offending the Gods of the Meme by continuing to leave it uncompleted ( Read more... )

This meme is a fun and creative subsitute for a mundane life update:

( 100 things about me. How many did you know already? )

I am going to become the owner of a kitten ( Read more... )

“Like the pulse of a perfect heart, life struck straight through the streets ( Read more... )

I wasn’t going to actually post this, but then I did promise, and Gpaul did read Atlas Shrugged for me, so ( Read more... )

Apparently it takes 10 days for me to process events enough to blog them. Perhaps my thoughts must age like fine wine? :P ( Read more... )