by the Night Writer
Power Line linked yesterday to a compelling new website, The Auschwitz Album. The story of the Holocaust and especially what took place at Auschwitz-Birkenau is a grim and familiar one that has been compellingly dramatized and commemorated many times. For most of us, though, we have come to know it through these [...]
by the Night Writer
I’m used to seeing my corporate life detailed in eerie accuracy in the comic strip Dilbert, and there are many times when it has seemed as if Jimmy Johnson, the creator of Arlo and Janis, has a closed circuit TV into my home. This morning, however, it appears that Johnson has [...]
by the Night Writer
I can’t say how it is that my mental juke box goes about selecting a song to be in my head when I wake up in the morning, but invariably I have one. Sometimes it’s a song I heard the day before, so that’s easy to explain, but most of the time [...]
by the Night Writer
The signs are that this bitter winter is drawing to a close. Not that the hard days didn’t have some beauty to them. I took these photos over the last couple of weeks with my cell phone camera as I was leaving work. I can’t seem to hold that camera steady, but [...]
by the Night Writer
Dang, I loves me some hydrolyzed vegetable protein! (My emphasis in bold, below.)
Ingredient Used in Many Processed Foods Recalled
Associated Press
March 05, 2010
A wide range of processed foods – including soups, snack foods, dips and dressings – are being recalled after salmonella was discovered in a flavor-enhancing ingredient.
Food and Drug Administration officials [...]
by the Minfidel
World-class curlers (and no, I’m not talking about the Mall Diva and her profession) can come from all over the globe but the sliding stones used in the sport can only be found in one place:
Apparently, there is a very special kind of granite needed to make the hefty stones that glide down [...]
by the Night Writer
Earlier I posted about the time the godly hole got punched in the wall of my world-view. It was a dramatic example, but not necessarily the first time God tried to get my attention. Looking back now I can see numerous nudges, nods, winks and taps on the shoulder when I was [...]
by the Night Writer
More protestors against increased government spending were left out in the cold on the Michigan state Capital lawn this week…but that’s probably how they liked it.
A group called Common Sense in Government organized the “rally”, building some three dozen snowman protestors and equipping them with signs to protest the governor’s proposal [...]
by the Night Writer
Hah. I noticed that the following poem was featured in the Writer’s Almanac on Saturday — the day after the Mall Diva’s ultrasound. The author is no W.B. Picklesworth, but he does have a knack for the subject.
The Alien
by Greg Delanty
I’m back again scrutinizing the Milky Way
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by the Night Writer
Like a big fist pounding on my door,
I never felt such a love before…
– Bruce Cockburn
Sunday thoughts.
In church this morning we were exhorted, during the singing portion, to remember that with a shout the walls will come down. “The wall” in this case being whatever is standing between us and God’s [...]
