Proud to be an American
You Passed the US Citizenship Test Congratulations – you got 10 out of 10 correct! Could You Pass the US Citizenship Test? Hat tip: A Rose By Any Other Name
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I feel the earth move under my feet
Just FYI, with the 100th anniversary of the Great San Francisco Earthquake coming our way this Tuesday, the San Francisco Chronicle has a very nice online spread on the quake, complete with memoirs (the real kind, not the modern, phony pity story), photographs, and original news stories. It was quite
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About twenty-five years ago, when I started college, I struck up a casual friendship with a Latina woman in one of my history classes. She told me that she was the first person in her family to have graduated from high school and, of course, the first to attend college.
Continue readingMindful of our separate roles in life.
I clean. They make things dirty. It's their job, and they do it well. I look forward to the end of spring break and, with it, my chance to return to my delusion that I can actually have a clean house.
Continue readingJust the facts, Ma’am.
This isn't a real post, just a heads up that, if you've wanted the facts about what's going on with our Army's recruiting efforts, you can read about it here. W. Thomas Smith Jr. cuts past the lies and gives the real information — and it's not anywhere as grim
Continue readingThe end of a memorable vacation
I'm back! My little Bookworm is recovering nicely from his pneumonia (although we'll probably be hearing that cough for some weeks to come), and I'm sure that soon I'll get the spring back in my own steps after nights in the hospital and hours in the car coming home from
Continue readingWhat I learned on spring break vacation
I'm actually still in the midst of spring break vacation — so don't expect any blogging for the next 24 hours — but I did learn some lessons and, since I have a moment at a computer, I thought I'd share them: 1. When your child has a 104.5 degree fever,
Continue readingFriends in interesting places
Some time ago, when I was still blogging at Blogger, I wrote a post asking what an American theocracy would look like. I asked this question because it occurred to me that, while liberals were frantically throwing around statements about Bush's "ultra conservatism" and "scary fundamentalism," none were articulating what
Continue readingSemi-silence today
I’m beginning to think I carry a jinx with me. I left Blogger because of all the problems and now, here at WordPress, I’m having a day where there “icons” one can use in lieu of knowing code are gone. That is, usually when I do a post, I don’t
Continue readingIs innate human biology hostile to the welfare state?
Working away today, I caught an NPR story about social and behavioral scientists who are beginning to study altruisim and freeloading (which can be flipsides of each other). The results of the studies indicate that the healthiest groups (at least in economic models) are those that, not only do not
Continue readingA small way to have your voice heard on the immigration debate
As you probably know, the wobbly compromise on the immigration bill broke apart entirely. I'm not sad — I didn't like it. The Power Line guys figure that conservatives now have a brief window of time within which to have their voices heard on the issue. To that end, they've
Continue readingHappy Passover!
Passover is around the corner (April 12 is the first night). So, I give you something silly and fun to help you celebrate. (Thanks, Tracy.)
Continue readingIt takes a historian to point out the obvious
German historians have announced as news the fact that the Nazis intended to expand their Holocaust to Palestine. I'm including the whole Reuters article here because (a) it's fascinating, (b) it touches directly on my father's war involvement, and (c) it touches indirectly on my mother's war: Nazi Germany planned
Continue readingA picture shows the effect of a thousand words
I found this great picture at Flopping Aces. He found it through Buck Sargent. I don't think I need to add any comment. UPDATE: G-Raze left a comment pointing to what s/he (don't know which) thinks is a tremendous irony: that I published this picture on the same day the
Continue readingMore on manly men
I did something I rarely do: I made an impulse purchase of a just-released movie on DVD. I simply couldn't resist buying The Chronicles of Narnia : The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. I then watched it again with the kids, and found it just as good as I
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