Category: Bits and Pieces

You decide: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlsjRnH4eHM[/youtube] Believe it or, the following gripping (or do I mean groping?) narrative is related to some aspects of the video you just watched: He grasped me firmly, but gently, just above my elbow and guided me into a room, his room. Then he quietly shut the door

I got my hair done today.  This is always a costly thing.  I have, to put it mildly, difficult hair, since it boasts four different textures, arranged like a patchwork over my head.  Over the years, depending on the wealth I’ve possessed, I’ve gone to hairdressers ranging from “cheaper than

I just spoke with an old friend, a dear person who is also a liberal amongst liberals.  He told me that his son is working in a technical capacity at the local conservative AM radio station.  I didn’t ask, but I do wonder how his son his adapting to ideas

I’m sure you’ve seen Sleeper, the Woody Allen movie that imagines him defrosted after two hundred years in a cryogenic sleep.  This bit of dialog always amused me: Dr. Melik: This morning for breakfast he requested something called “wheat germ, organic honey and tiger’s milk.” Dr. Aragon: [chuckling] Oh, yes.

My mother, European and half-Jewish, has lived in America since the 1950s.  Before that, she lived in Israel, a proud Jewish nation continually under Arab/Muslim attack.  Her years in Israel were interrupted by a four year long stint in a Japanese concentration camp in Java.  As a pre-teen, she lived

Eleanor Powell and friend: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP0ogCn7f2I[/youtube]

I doubt many people living today even recognize the old saying that “the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.”  Nevertheless, they live daily with the reality of that saying: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSwMEtuL-GQ[/youtube]

It’s a morning of incredibly good stuff, as I troll through my usual list of daily reading material.  I’m sharing it with you in real time as I read it myself. Start with J.R. Dunn’s look at the new world of warfare, one that takes place, not on battlefields but,

From New York’s Yeshiva University: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSJCSR4MuhU[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvdHlsKuBpg[/youtube]

Real Hispanic outreach.  High time too.  I wish them good luck in this endeavor.

Another one from Ben Howe: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Key-27CXHBA[/youtube]

I’ve got to run an errand this morning — one of those time is of the essence errands — so the best I can do is to leave you with some choice material from other bloggers. A good start is the Anchoress (Elizabeth Scalia) on Bono and other earth worshippers. 

Many American Indians (I can’t speak for all) identified animal spirit totems that helped guide the individual in life and defined who they were. Animal spirit totems also helped other individual discern qualities in individuals. Often, spirit totems were animals defined by qualities that the American Indian admired and sought