So, it’s 3 p.m. on the Tuesday when the AC repair company — a full nine days after we reported AC trouble — was scheduled to show up between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. And AC man *JUST* showed up. He’s crawling around in the attic now, thank goodness, and my great hope is that …
creating a culture of life — but what kind of life?
While driving back from San Antonio yesterday, we were listening to a song that had a line that went something like this: “What they need to understand is that life doesn’t end at birth.” That really made me think about President Bush’s insistence that he’s committed to creating a culture of life … but that …
What is torture?
Slate has an excellent primer on what constitutes torture in the US military today. Very well researched and presented. Put on your reading glasses!
Save Toby!
I know many of you’ve probably seen or heard about this, but I hadn’t until just now, when my friend Tommy send me a URL with this note: “Why, oh why God did I not think of this! He’s extorted over 28K and counting.” My two favorite parts of the Web site? The recipe section …
Taco Cabana, part dos
Today at lunch, I decided to try a little post-trauma Taco Cabana experiment … because I believe traumatic experiences should be overwritten with positive ones as quickly as possible. Today’s research question: Is it the case that, as Daniel suggests, all Dallas-area Taco Cabanas have declined, or is the one nearest to our house (the …
a decidedly UN-personals ad
I thought this personals ad from a woman in DC (part of the “Best of Craigslist” collection) was brilliant. And except for the five-mile run thing, I totally agree!
Taco Cabana
Daniel makes little secret of the fact that, after spending some time in San Antonio helping his dad renovate their old house, which included daily breakfasts at Taco Cabana, he holds the Cabana in very high esteem. Whenever we trek to San Antonio, in fact, it’s generally the case that we have to go by …
bummer.
Granted, I cheered as loudly as anyone else when I saw Jon Stewart beating up on Crossfire — the show and its hosts. Still, I had so wanted to experience being in the studio audience at my alma mater this summer when I’m out for a visit. Bummer. 🙁 —– Original Message —– From: Crossfire …
documentary trivia
In my first grad school foray — at Arkansas — I took a journalism class on the documentary film form. In it, we had to review a documentary film every week and critique it on several factors, including audio, camera work, writing, framing, etc. I learned tons and loved it; in fact, I nearly took …
stressed out?
Try this. (Thanks, Tommy, for the link!) PS: It’s a lot more fun in “manic” mode. 🙂