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A loving tribute to Carla A. Wilson, though words are so inadequate…
Last night, I saw part of the Barbara Walters - Colin Powell interview. My already high estimation of Powell ratcheted up another notch.
Apparently, some college athletes (Northwestern University’s national championship women’s lacrosse team, to be exact) wore dressy sandals on a visit to the White House. Bear in mind, here, we’re not talking about some foreign ambassador… they’re college athletes! They’re even planning to auction off the sandals to raise money for a 10-year-old girl with a brain tumor! And this has cause a controversy! Some people just have too much time on their hands!
I’ve been watching the talking heads on TV lately and, is it just me, or are the speech skills of broadcasters, pundits, and others in the news degrading at an alarming rate? How do we save ourselves from becoming a society of functional illiterates?
Charlotte, North Carolina - Two teenagers have been charged with felony assault for defending themselves against an out-of-control adult school bus driver. What moron made that decision?
A religion that avoids the pitfalls of The Big Three (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), and incorporates modern theoretical physics into its system of spirituality.
The colonization of space is inevitable. Here’s why.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood... My story of the Princess and the User. (Mattie, you should read this one.)
There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who try to make themselves feel better by making sure the people around them are at their peaks and those who try to make themselves feel better by ensuring that everyone around them feels worse than they do. If you’re one of the former, take heart: Those who can’t see, don’t recognize, or won’t accept the goodness in your heart are the ones missing out. Stay the course and you’ll find someone even better.
When you make a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy, the quality begins to degrade. Eventually, it becomes unreadable. Human DNA has been copied, repeatedly, for tens of thousands of years and errors have crept into the mix. With modern genetic engineering and DNA sequencing, we are on the cusp of being able to correct these errors. What a shame that so many people dishonor the artist’s name by considering cleaning up the errors in this magnificent creation “playing god” and oppose the research that could cure every single human disease.
A five-year-old girl in St. Petersburg, Florida, decided she didn’t want to participate in a math lesson and threw a violent temper tantrum. During this little hissy fit, which was videotaped, she tore things from the walls, swept items off of desks, and struck the faculty. The faculty, unable to calm or restrain the out-of-control spoiled brat were forced to resort to phoning the local police as the mother refused to collect her undiciplined hooligan for at least an hour.
Arte Moreno, owner of the Anaheim Angels, recently decided to change the name of the team to the “Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim,” in a poorly thought out attempt to tap into a larger market. In so doing, he insulted and marginalized both the city of Anaheim and Orange County in general.