Necessary Roughness

two kingdoms, hundreds of thousands of miles

Archive for the 'diversions' Category

Pennsylvania Sunrise
Thursday, October 30th, 2008

While waiting for my car to warm up, I took this picture of the view east of my hotel.
Clicking on the picture will get you two more zoom levels out of the gallery.

Lutheran Study Bible Coming in 2009
Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Pastor Paul McCain has set my Christmas list up for 2008 and 2009. The Treasury of Daily Prayer has already come out.
Yesterday Rev. McCain posted about the upcoming Lutheran Study Bible, which uses the ESV Bible text but has study notes that bring out Lutheran perspectives that any Christian can appreciate such as the fulfillment [...]

A “Point-Two” Story
Monday, September 22nd, 2008

On Purpose Driven Drinking, the Aardvark exposes the European beer importing industry for downsizing the amount of beer in its bottles from our American 12-oz. down to 11.2 ounces with no drop in price.
This reminded me about the first time I’d heard of another “point-two”…weak beer.
Three of us from the University of Missouri-Rolla (as it [...]

Constitution Day
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

On this day, 221 years ago, 39 present out of 42 delegates, representing 12 states, approved the Constitution of the United States.
I took the Fascinating Facts quiz at ConstitutionFacts.com, and I was surprised to miss a question. The maximum number of years one can serve as President is 10, not 8.
Based upon Amendment Twenty-Two [...]

Iran Buys American Wheat
Thursday, August 21st, 2008

It appears that the way to mollify Iranian hatred of America may indeed be through the stomach. The Wall Street Journal reports that Iran is buying high-quality hard red winter wheat from the Great Satan.
Drought is expected to slash Iran’s domestic production by one-third this year. Iran is forecast to produce 10 million tons of [...]