Well, I think that's what's being sold here: this come from my family business archives. Why it was there I don't know. I think it dates from the 1950's but am not sure.
If the Term “Black Hole” is Racist, What About “Black Market?”
Things in "Big D" have made a strange turn with this: County commissioners were discussing problems with the central collections office that is used to process traffic ticket payments and handle other paperwork normally done by the JP Courts. Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections "has become a black …
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But Do They Want “Slow Women Working” Signs?
An Atlanta magazine editor has managed, in one place at least, to eliminate the "Men Working" signs that warn of construction: Public Works officials are replacing 50 "Men Working" with signs that say "Workers Ahead." It will cost $22 to cover over some of the old signs and $144 to buy new signs, said Public …
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The Confederate Flag: Maybe They Wanted to Skip Graduation
There's more than one way to get a job done, as three Mobile students found out the hard way: They say they're just "good ol' boys" who, like the song goes, were "never meaning no harm." But three Bloomington Kennedy seniors were not allowed to attend their commencement Wednesday night after bringing a Confederate flag …
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The Judgement of God: Everyone Wants a Piece of the Action
Ministers such as Jerry Falwell and others are always blistered by the left for saying that events such as 9/11 and Katrina are results of the judgement of God on the U.S. So what's really different, in another religious context, about what Sharon Stone said about the Chinese earthquake being the result of "bad karma" …
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Positive Infinity and Baidu
The Internet is a place where unanticipated things happen all the time. An example of this coming to the blog you're reading is the growing traffic from places like baidu.com, the Chinese search engine. There isn't much in Chinese on this site, although China has been an interest of mine for the last quarter century. …
The Bedouins Found the Dead Sea Scrolls. Now to Return the Favour…
...an Israeli medical centre extends its healing skills to a Bedouin woman who was bitten by a very poisonous snake: Within minutes, an IDF (Israel Defense Forces) ambulance arrived with a driver and paramedic (both armed and in IDF uniform) and assisted the rapidly deteriorating Nadia into the vehicle together with her mother. They sped …
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Sun Tzu’s Method of Teaching a Lesson
Travis Johnson gives his congregation a lesson from the great Chinese author Sun Tzu: Sometimes you just have to break things and burn things down to get people where they need to go. Have you ever had someone tell you that you shouldn’t burn bridges? Me too. It is good advice…sometimes. In the case of …
Code Pink Uses Witchcraft to Protest Iraq War
The secularists have done their best to decouple "God and Country" but obviously the anti-war group Code Pink knows better: Code Pink is now resorting to witchcraft to beef up the number of its supporters protesting Berkeley's controversial Marine Corps Recruiting Center. The women's anti-war group has told ralliers to come equipped with spells and …
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Can Islam be Changed?
Evidently Spengler doesn't think so: How, then, should one make sense of the joint statement signed April 30 between the Vatican and a group of visiting Iranian clerics, attesting to the benefits of reason? According the May 1 L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI and the Iranians agreed that "Faith and reason do not contradict each …
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