Category: Bits and Pieces

Okay, it’s time to get serious here.  I just went over to the pledge and information page for the Project Valour — IT fund raiser and discovered to my immense chagrin that the Marines are trailing the Army.  At this moment, all I can do is quote Claude Raines:  “I’m

I can’t get any of the clever visuals to work in Word Press, but I can tell you that, as of 22:34 p.s.t., the Marines are in the lead on Project Valour – IT. Let’s keep the momentum going. We want all the teams to win, of course, but we

I like Elizabeth Lowell’s romantic thrillers. I’m reading her most recent one, Innocent as Sin, about an adventurous, romantic hunt for a cold-blooded arms merchant.  Early on, at a meeting between an information broker and a 60 Minutes style news group negotiating the handover of information about the bad guy,

A few days ago, I wrote a asking for information about MBT shoes, a very weird looking shoe that promises to decrease joint pain and increase the beneficial effects of walking. As of today, I can’t comment about the latter promise, but I can about the former. You see, I

I was at the sporting goods store the other day — the high end one — looking for running shoes for my daughter.  She enjoyed the process, and also just thrilled to walking around the store looking at all the merchandise on display.  She stopped abruptly in front of a

I listened to a minute of the Michael Medved show and heard a Code Pink representative going on about how 24 year olds can’t be expected to understand their mortality and should not be trusted with a serious decision such as joining the military.  (This is all apropos of the

I’ve provided 300 grains of rice to the world’s hungry — and it was so interesting to do, I’m not even bothered by the fact that it went through the United Nations. At the website Free Rice, you have to do multiple choice guesses as to the meaning of words,

Bobby Jindal won! Interestingly, the very first paragraph in the AP report talks, not about what he stands for politically, but his age and race. Identity politics in the 21st Century….

Just as most of us, at least through childhood, like to cling to the comforting belief that we are all products of some type of immaculate virginal conception (“My parents didn’t do that! Yuck!), so too do I prefer that some fictional characters function in a cerebral world devoid of