by Lappe Parish: Guest Blogger
Thank you to Lulla of the Brown House Gallery for a tube of paint. Thanks to the Naples Library for a reduced printing charge. Thank you to Toni Moon and an anymous donor for financial support. And to Blake for copies of The Economist.
Much needed rain […]
Filed under: General Observations, Lappe Parish on July 28th, 2007 | Add Comment! »
I do my music files directory style…. so do I file music by Adam Ant as “Adam Ant” or “Ant, Adam”?
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Filed under: General Observations on July 28th, 2007 | Add Comment! »
My latest thrift store coup is the Krups Il Cafe Duomo from the Dorsey Street Exchange in Saranac Lake New York, which is the coolest thrift store in New York State. I replaced the $8 Black and Decker espresso machine (I thought Black and Decker just made hardware stuff?!)that I got at a garage […]
Filed under: General Observations on July 24th, 2007 | Add Comment! »
President Bush issued an executive order last week that represent a serious threat to our Fifth Amendment protections. The order allows the President to take the property of anyone who the government feels might threaten the stability of Iraq’s government or undermine Iraq reconstruction efforts.
Oh, and if you’re helping anyone do any […]
Filed under: Politics, History on July 22nd, 2007 | Add Comment! »
by Lappe Parish (guest blogger)
We lost the ability to cut back on taxes with the last school vote. People who are voting to make their own lives or the lives of their children more “cushy” should look around and see that there are people in their neighborhood who can not afford to keep paying […]
Filed under: General Observations, Politics, Lappe Parish on July 21st, 2007 | Add Comment! »
Family Reserve
by Lyle Lovett
When I saw the ambulance
Screaming down Main Street
I didn’t give it a thought
But it was my Uncle Eugene
He died on October the second 1981
This is the family stone for my Mom’s people, the Douglases. It was this side of my family that I was closest to most of my life. […]
Filed under: General Observations on July 20th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
One of my colleagues asked the students to share their thoughts about a recently completed economics problem. Since I like to feel that I played some part in this student honing his critical talents, I was proud of his response. Here, in its entirety, is Alex’s
PROJECT EVALUATION
I was relatively successful in my […]
Filed under: General Observations on July 19th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I like to incite controversy with my bumper stickers, and get a lot of angry looks from people when they read my bumper stickers. Yesterday at the mall I found some I’m not sure I would put on my bumper. But I’m going to order the ones I can find anyway!
You can […]
Filed under: Politics on July 19th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Is the supposedly free press paying attention? Click here before you answer that question!
The Bushies are getting desparate!
Filed under: Politics on July 18th, 2007 | Add Comment! »
Randy Kuhl, and a number of other tunnel-visioned members of the House of Representatives voted a resounding NO on another opportunity to bring our troops home safely. The Responsible Redeployment from Iraq Act passed the House anyway, no thanks to RepKuhl and those of his ilk.
I was reminded of this first by my e-mail […]
Filed under: General Observations on July 18th, 2007 | Add Comment! »
