Category: Bits and Pieces

Got back about an hour ago.  I’ve unpacked, run a load of laundry, made lunch, and am leaving to pick the dog up from the kennel.  I have been absolutely and completely removed from the news from two weeks.  News-wise, it’s as if they never happened.  I have a lot

Taking a short break from brief-writing and thought of a question you might be interested in.  From the day we were married, my wife and I have always viewed everything we have as “ours.”  I was thinking about this the other days, as I thought about “our” trying to raise

Sports fans like me have always watched events in which people got hurt.  In some cases, hurting the opponent is the point (boxing, MMA).  But the events were played by people dedicated to their sports who were striving to be the best they could possibly be at their level, be

I’m spending the holiday weekend working on a legal brief that has to go out on Monday.  I don’t have enough energy to do anything serious, so let’s have some fun.  If you were going to create a TV program (Oprah is looking for some shows for her new network, you

Sadie strikes again (thank you Sadie!) with another excellent topic suggestion, asking each of us as the new year begins to look back to the best and worst moments of last year and forward to predict the best and the worst of the year to come. I’ll start.  On a

Sadie has another good suggestion: “Need another topic..here’s one.  Anyone else notice the cost of gas and food lately. The food doesn’t get to the shelves by magic wand or windmills. The rise in the cost of a barrel effects everything and everyone. “Five dollars per gallon of gas by

Well, actually, a whole newspaper full of it!

In response to my question about what you would like to talk about, Sadie made this suggestion: “How about a PSA to ‘welcome the new and old/er’. I think many of us have taken care of aging parents with love and kindness, but we’re also taking care of current and

This really is a continuation of yesterday’s post and a new topic in one.  The comments to that post indicate a concensus that “one world government” is a Utopian pipe dream.  Some commenters even suggested that it was desirable to have many smaller countries.  Okay, but we do have the

I’ve been reading with great interest the 1949 edition of The Outline of History, written mostly (except for the WWII part) by H.G. Wells.  The book provides a nice perspective of the socialist mind in the first half of the last century.  To his credit, Wells makes no pretense of

We’ve got another week until Bookworm gets back.  I’ve got a topic I want to write up tonight and a few others in mind, but I’m curious.  What would you all like to talk about?

This article caught my eye.  The view of the future it presents does sound like science fiction, but, of course, most of our current technology was science fiction 50 years ago.  This is interesting in it’s own right, but it also got me thinking about the conservative and progressive reaction to progress. 

It’s Christmas morning as I write this and I hope you all are having a lovely Christmas.  Perhaps the way to celebrate in the Bookwormroom is to share Christmas stories.  I don’t have much to share myself, but I do have one and my wife has a better one, so