Saturday, December 15, 2012
This horror will not go away even if we could remove every gun from America. Timothy McVeigh did not use a gun, and the Columbine killers made bombs as well. The problem we need to solve (and fast) is the fact that we are producing so many (or any at all) young people who consider [...]
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Saturday, December 15, 2012
My blog. My opinion, whether you agree or not. I’m moved to tears by the recent killings in Newtown Connecticut. A clearly disturbed kid of merely 20 years forced his way into the elementary school and killed 20 children, five adults, and himself. He had previously killed his mother at home after stealing guns that [...]
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Sunday, February 20, 2011
Peg was willing to go a B. I called it a C. At least it was a decent experiment… I tried for whole wheat pasta, but whole wheat has a lower gluten proportion than semolina – somethimg I neglected to take into account. So there wasn’t enough water in the eggs, so the whole wheat [...]
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Welcome home boys — TSA interrogates our soldiers (This was emailed to me recently. There’s no way to really vet the information, but it didn’t show up on Snopes as bogus…) As the Chalk Leader for my flight home from Afghanistan, I witnessed the following: When we were on our way back from Afghanistan, we [...]
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Angela is the daughter of our friend Mike. She’s all grown up now (we knew her when she was just a teenager, so we can say that), and has a family of her own down in Virginia. She’s just started her own blog so you can stop in to see what she’s doing. She’s really [...]
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
No, I didn’t make a resolution to start blogging again, but I got a few new toys recently, so I thought I’d comment on some experiences. First – it was a huge mistake to get a black range. It’s beautiful when it’s clean, but cleaning it is a bear. First it has to be washed, [...]
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I was saddened to hear of Dennis Hopper’s death today due to cancer. I was never a huge fan, just the occasional role that crossed his path. A clever and talented actor as well as director, Hopper was an artist too, and an art collector. I had heard on NPR just the other day that [...]
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Auntie Joann sent us kids an email this morning acknowledging what would have been my father’s 83rd birthday yesterday. He missed out on a bunch of really neat grandchildren. He also missed out on his great-grandchildren. He was a great guy. Too bad he smoked. Bastard.
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
This came to me from my long-time friend Mark: I put my carry-on in the luggage compartment and sat down in my assigned seat. It was going to be a long flight. “I’m glad I have a good book to read. Perhaps I will get a short nap,” I thought. Just before take-off, a line [...]
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