Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
In 1976 I made a month-long trip to the UK. At the end of this I headed to Heathrow Airport for the flight back to Miami and from there home just up the coast. This piece was originally put up 11 August 2006, the 30th anniversary of my return. I'm reposting this on the seventh …
Continue reading "Blast from the Past: Coming Home from Heathrow"
I'm back on the podcast trail this week with Little Children, from Cookin' Mama's New Day album. This group was very progressive and the music is still fresh and moves after all these years. I've featured this album before, but now it's hosted on this site, and you can find it here.
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.
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 …
Continue reading "If the Term “Black Hole” is Racist, What About “Black Market?”"
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 …
Continue reading "But Do They Want “Slow Women Working” Signs?"
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 …
Continue reading "The Confederate Flag: Maybe They Wanted to Skip Graduation"
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" …
Continue reading "The Judgement of God: Everyone Wants a Piece of the Action"
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. …
...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 …
Continue reading "The Bedouins Found the Dead Sea Scrolls. Now to Return the Favour…"
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 …
