Shaker Heights is noted for its diversity, but as far as its street names go, it's wall-to-wall whitey here. Every road bears a faux tweedy, upper-crust English moniker, with some lowlands Scots mixed in around the bad parts of town. This can get a little confusing, so if you're driving by Horseshoe Lake, and you see me out running, and if my body ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln ( Read more... )

Jim Holt examines the perils of psychoanalyzing our Intelligent Designer by reverse engineering His Creation.While there is much that is marvelous in nature, there is also much that is flawed, sloppy and downright bizarre. Some nonfunctional oddities, like the peacock's tail or the human male's nipples, might be attributed to a sense of whimsy on ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln!!!

From, in rough order of appearence on my friends list, gehayi, scrollgirl and londonkds: ( do I believe . . . )

11:23. After a few weeks of this, I'll have medians established for each day and I'll know how disappointed to be.

I've decided to do scrollgirl's icon meme, because other than cutting and pasting some
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My mother, who last week was installed as the new pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Nowheresville, Michigan, just sent me this email:As I listen to Diane Rheme talk about the Florida case, I would like to tell you my wishes. I do not want to be kep alive if I am in a persistent vegatative state is. After I reach 80 or so, I would like to ( Read more... )

I've been begatten, or begot, or something. Thanks, Masq! It only took a little grovelling . . . I grovel so well ( Read more... )