The twins and four adults (minimum for any sort of long distance travel in my opinion) head into Pennsylvania tomorrow. We’ll end up back in Ohio either Sunday or Monday. I don’t know if there will be more entries between now and then, but the laptop is coming with me. Unfortunately Gettysburg is not in [...]
On the LiveJournal Lutherans community, a question was asked: what to do when someone comes asking for money? Today at the store I got to put my philosophy into action. A short and skinny female came up to me in the grocery store parking lot and gave me a spiel:
“Excuse me, sir, could you help [...]
It's not news that employees who work a Drive-Thru of a fast food restaurant chain may not have a real incentive to perform well. Contact time with the customer is measured in seconds, and because the customer doesn't find out his order is wrong until after he sits down and gets ready to eat, [...]
AP and others report that North Korea has agreed “to stop building nuclear weapons and allow international inspections in exchange for energy aid, economic cooperation and security assurances”.
I’m mixed on this. Kim Jong-Il has admitted to lying about nukes before. In the Cold War we had “trust, but verify.” Now it needs to be just, [...]
Vicar Charles Lehmann, a.k.a. , serves up the sixth edition of the Carnival. Thanks, Vicar!
Yesterday I took a day's vacation to put together our new swing set. With the exception of a see-saw attachment, it's pretty much the same configuration as the swing set our family had when I was a kid. It was $300 less than the next model up, but I think we paid the [...]
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. —Amendment I, U.S. Constitution
My wife and I attended a Michael [...]
HT: Galley Slaves
One by one, congressional Republicans take their turns shoveling dirt onto the grave of small government. The Washington Times reports:
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said yesterday that Republicans have done so well in cutting spending that he declared an “ongoing victory,” and said there is simply no fat left to cut in the [...]
