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Where are some of my favorite members? Curiosity Dexter Sinister I Think Not Agent 99 has dropped my locator device and then she stepped on it.

Perhaps if we all strain hard enough we can come up with a global fart. Maybe fax every fax line in the world with a scratch and sniff page. ummm... I'm tired. must get some sleep

Everyone has an inner story line. An unspoken presumption we have of ourselves. A lot of people don't even know they have an ongoing inner narrative. That's why repeating patterns occur in our lives. For example: Do you know of people who always contradict you and contradict everyone...

Tomorrow, Finland will be celebrating its Independence Day. 6 December 1917. They have the most hunters and guns in the world per capita after the US and Yemen. No reindeer jerky is available. Illegal. This is Santa enforced.

We will engineer changes. Nanotech will marry biology with electronics and chemistry. We are THE GODS. We are Dr Frankenstein. What is our idea of perfection ? Usually when when think of our bad habits and bad behavior and miscues and mistakes, we think of the following as an improvement...

1877: Nez Perce Chief Joseph surrenders to the U.S. Army with the words “I will fight no more forever.” Learn more about Chief Joseph. Chief Joseph surrenders 130 years ago today. I remember reading the story in a Classics Comic book (remember them ?) and very moved as an 8 year old...

I am dealing with an estate of a person in Vancouver BC which is somehow with the Public Guardian's office. What is the Public Guardian office and its duties ?

Let us take a philosophical commercial break and contemplate : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4776181634656145640 Now there's a guy who does 4 balls but I still don't think he outclasses this act.

Hot and Cold Emotions Make Us Poor Judges WE TEND TO EXAGGERATE THE POWER OF WILL POWER By Shankar Vedantam Monday, August 6, 2007; A03 Why would David Vitter, a U.S. senator with four young children, have gotten involved with a seedy escort service? Why would Michael Vick, a gifted NFL...

Taking advantage of a brief lull in the action while some of my male colleagues were out on a military embed, I tried to follow up on a promise I'd made to myself when I arrived on this latest assignment to Iraq – to try to find out who is the Iraqi woman circa 2007? Unable to stray too far...

Joe (guy in the middle) lives one block away from me with a sale sign. Lives half the year and maybe all year around soon in Belize. He just had a book signing in his hometown of Winchester. http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2007/04/joe_talks_about.html...

Remember the RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER or TINTERN ABBEY ? Remember Coleridge ? Remember Wordsworth ? Coleridge was a laudanum socialist wacko who coined the term Pantisocracy, meaning power for all. And this society was to live in the Quaker banks of the Susquehanna. William Penn...

Yep. You know what Mae West said.

Wow, I could just slip on a bananna peel after reading all this. I guess I'm just being a 2nd banana to Karrie's joke. Anybody wearing Banana Republic shorts ? Mae West: You know what she said.

http://www.slate.com/id/2164909/entry/2165121/ I now understand why Ecclesiastes is the favorite Bible book of people who don't much believe in God. It offers the only viable competition to the Bible's main theme of heaven, redemption, and judgment. If you believe in God, you can explain...

By Scott McCredie for MSN Health & Fitness Freelance It started a decade ago with Dolly the Scottish sheep, the world’s first cloned mammal. Then a year later came Lucy the Canadian mouse, the first mammal with artificially implanted genes that could be inherited by her offspring. Since...

Wonder why white people don't come up with hip phrases. Blacks do. Whites say "hey" as in hello. Hmmm...

I'm a Republican Conservative and I'm wondering whether this surge of troops is going to accomplish anything. I understand the rationale to try one more time, rather than give up. I understand that the righteous world doesn't give a damn about really giving Iraq a 2nd chance, prefering instead...

New York City proper has 8 million people. Virginia has 7.6 million people. If there was no electoral college, one city would equal one state's power. One man one vote would impose an urban life style of thinking. At least with the electoral college the rural and outer-urban has a...

Will power. Yeah right. Every plan based on Will Power is a plan to fail. You think God is a Myth ? Add Will Power to that list of Myths that need continual Debunking. Think about it. Will Power implies that you have the strength to say NO continually all day, day after day. Only a...