All In Me Head

So much of my life is lived inside my head …

Welcome Back … Maybe

admin | October 6, 2009

The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging has a lot of good advice.
One bit I disagree with though: their admonition that the blogger never try to explain or explain away an absence.
Fine.  I won’t.
I’ve been gone. Now I’m back.
Maybe.
Don’t expect regularity – that’s why some wonderful bodger invented RSS.
I have had a lot of life [...]

Researchers Find Traces of Mercury in High-fructose Corn Syrup

admin | January 27, 2009

A swig of soda or bite of a candy bar might be sweet, but a new study suggests that food made with corn syrup also could be delivering tiny doses of toxic mercury.
For the first time, researchers say they have detected traces of the silvery metal in samples of high-fructose corn syrup, a widely used [...]

Inauguration Day – The Unexpected

admin | January 20, 2009

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My day started out with Pink Floyd’s “Learning To Fly” on the radio on my drive to the restaurant where I’d spend the better part of my day.  Among many favourite Pink Floyd songs, that one’s certainly near [...]

Card Store (Hot Button)

admin | January 15, 2009

I still wear a campaign button on my leather jacket.
It replaces a red,white, and blue metal ribbon that’s been in place on that jacket since September 11, 2001 — in honor of six people I knew who’d been killed in the WTC incident.
I leave the button in place because I live in the reddest county [...]

Writing Threshold

admin | January 13, 2009

The author tries to prevent his autism (and the sense it gives him that nothing he has to say is really worth saying) ruining his blog.

Post-pourri

admin | December 27, 2008

Little thoughts that I don’t have time to develop, and probably aren’t worth posts of their own.  I’ll build them up over the course of a week, and discharge them sometime during the weekend.
SCORCHED EARTH
One unfortunate by-product of Bill Clinton’s end-of-second-term budget surplusses (and in a greater sense his successes) was that in a sense [...]

In This Season of Returning Light

admin | December 24, 2008

I must say I’ve never written a blog post as a holiday greeting before.
You can thank the weather here in north-central Indiana.
I’ve been thinking about some kind of greeting to my friends at Digg and CenterLeft for a month or so now — but everything really gelled this afternoon, as I caught myself thinking that [...]