A Happy Mother's Day to all of you fine Mothers out there. Birth-Mothers; Adoptive Mothers; Single-Fathers who must also be Mothers; Godmothers; Grandmothers; Great Grandmothers; Aunts and Girlfriends who take that role ( Read more... )

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( The Text of the speech. Read it when you have a moment... it is VERY MUCH worth your time. )

Early morning, April 4,
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky,
Free at last, they took your life,
They could not take your pride!

U2 : Pride (In the Name of Love)
I wonder what the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., would say today ( Read more... )

Nature and Nature's Laws lay hid in night;
God said, "Let Newton be!" -- And all was light.

Alexander Pope

This is the epitaph for Sir Isaac Newton, author of the Principia Mathematica, which forever altered how the people of the world viewed and understood the world. It was penned by the great 18th Century poet, Alexander Pope ( Read more... )

Behold...

He did go forth unto th'distant land, call'd Khe Chen,

And did enter th' Great Frosted Cave,

And for perilous seconds did Track & Persever'd,

Ere he came upon yon dreaded Haute Pockit, yea verily,

And he did Slay th'Haute Pockit mightily ( Read more... )

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Here's the supposed story:

Humans raise a lion in captivity.

They release it into the wild.

They come back one year later, to check on the lion's progress.

You see the lion come to the realization who they are, and an adorable reunion follows.Watching this, I thought about Sigfried & Roy a little bit. What's the difference here? Surely ( Read more... )

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

Dorothy Thompson, American journalist (1894-1961)

Take a few minutes, and give a prayer of thanks for Those Who Went Before...

Taps
Composed By Major General Daniel ButterfieldDay is done... Gone the sun ( Read more... )

Been feeling the desire to go crazy, lately. To let loose. Fling caution to the winds. And not entirely in a good way. When my first divorce was in progress, and things looked ultra-bleak, I began drinking. Smoking. Swearing. I almost took a job in Antarctica, even. This, after I'd gotten all the way through the military without the aforementioned ( Read more... )

Happy Easter, everyone!

Steve and Kris did something par-ticularly gracious for today. According to the parenting agreement, Amethyst was scheduled to be with me. But, it turns out, many holidays where I get pre-eminence for parent-time happen to fall on days I'm scheduled to work, and so the reality is that I don't get these days anyway. Our ( Read more... )