reposting today. Happy Independence Day! Grievances Survey Originally published on July 4, 2019 by Marica An annotated Declaration of Independence is here, complete with what prompted the inclusion of each Grievance. As I could not figure out how to embed a real survey, we will do this the old fashioned way. Please use the Comments to answer the following
Reposting today. If you’ve been following along for the past … 10 years or so Originally published on June 30, 2020 by Marica You know that I really really like Independence day.
Reposting today Crappy Old Quote of the Day | NO. 138 Originally published on July 4, 2020 Cato’s Farewell John Trenchard & Thomas Gordon The London Journal, Saturday, July 27, 1723 “SIR, As I have with a success which no man has yet met with (if I regard the number of my readers, and the sale of
Reposting today Crappy Old Quote of the Day Originally published on July 6, 2020 Today we return Cato’s Letters (1720-1723) to the fourth shelf of the big bookshelf in the living room. It was a good run. Hope you enjoyed it. This is a bit late– I missed it entirely until just now as Lines of a Layman had been piled
Reposting today. The Grievances Originally published on November 2, 2020 These are the original. I think we could come up with some new variations on the theme– He/She has endeavored to keep us thinking that our individual safety was more important than our individual liberty. “He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies,
From that infallible source: Warren had been commissioned a major general in the colony’s militia shortly before the June 17, 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill. Rather than exercising his rank, Warren chose to serve in the battle as a private soldier, and was killed in combat when British troops stormed the redoubt atop Breed’s Hill. His death, immortalized in John Trumbull‘s painting, The Death of
You will note that there are no trollies, no Schrödinger cats, and only one lame philosophy cartoon. This departure from the norm has been goin on for quite a while now. Could it be that Steve Hayward, who posts Powerline’s The Week in Pictures, has– for whatever reason– farmed the cartoon collection out to someone
Over the many long years here I have written several decent posts .for Memorial Day. Today I’ll be picking and choosing from among them and reposting. For context, this is from last year when we were doing our Daily Readings. If you’re not familiar with The Man Without a Country, please do take the time
Over the many long years here I have written several decent posts .for Memorial Day. Today I’ll be picking and choosing from among them and reposting. Here’s the first. In Flanders Fields Published on May 25, 2020 by Marica In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks,
Happy Easter Monday! I’ll start posting recipes from brunch and dinner shortly. But first, I must recover from a Monday morning trip to the grocery store. Shelves were barren. Carts in the aisles everywhere. People hustling and bustling to get the selves restocked. Unknown cashiers. TTYL!
Fabulous. The star was the grits bread. Recipes coming soon. Mr. Big Food and I had a lovely conversation about this and that. Some continental philosophers came up. We listened to Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian Easter Overture. We lingered. All very civilized. Soon it will be time to prepare Easter Dinner. I’ll set the dining room table!
Nothing fancy. In fact, with all of the kitchy pottery, it’s sort of silly. I think Mr. Big Food is calling it “How we do Easter Brunch in Dixie.” The asparagus and mint were picked minutes ago. They’ll be used later in the day. FYI I am going to have to check some crappy old
It’s quite remarkable, isn’t it? I don’t think it’s necessary to sit around all day thinking about it, but it is good from time to time to recall that people were engaged in the same things thousands of years ago that we today engage in. We shop, prepare meals, eat, bathe, sleep, make homes for
Just to give you some perspective, in the first picture– looking down into the excavation– I’m standing near the pedestal (second) with the map of the project (third).
Jaffa Gate entrance into the Old City of Jerusalem, and the Armenian Quarter. I think the tower in the background of the second photo is The Tower of David.
And I can understand why. Currently 77*, 71% relative humidity, 32,500 Lux, pressure 1007hPa and steady, wind 7mph & gusting up to 20. Mr. Big Food started the corned beef in the crockpot at 5am this morning– just in case.
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