The Wire and The Press
Last night we watched the first episode of season 5 of The Wire, and it is already shaping up to be very interesting. This season is focusing heavily on the newsroom of The Baltimore Sun and how news is sorted and reported. The best quote so far is, “I wonder what it’s like to work [...]
Dream Connection Radiothon
If you are feeling more like Bob Cratchit and less like Ebenezer Scrooge Tuesday morning, I’ll be manning the phones with the Knoxville Rugby Club at Dream Connection’s annual Radiothon on WIVK–call in and make a pledge from 7am to 10 am! If you aren’t familiar with Dream Connection, it is an East Tennessee charity [...]
Television That Is Better Than Most Books
From the looks of its ratings, there’s a good chance you’ve never watched HBO’s “The Wire”, and that’s okay. You probably haven’t heard much about it. It’s not the kind of show most of the people you work with will stand around and talk about. Honestly, it’s not the kind of show most of the [...]
Steroids and Baseball–Let The Records Stand
The report everyone’s been on the edge of their seat anticipating was released today. Of course, there were the names you’d expect to see (Bonds, Giambi, Sheffield, and McGwire), but there were some surprising names on the list: Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte, and Eric Gagne, among them. Notice something here? The pitchers are/were juicing too…not just the [...]
We Co-Sleep, But Don’t Want to Argue About It
Over at Music City Bloggers there is a post about co-sleeping that thankfully hasn’t erupted into a full-on war over what is right and what isn’t. We co-sleep with our four month old, and I think it’s great. Of course, nursing, kicking, crying, grunting, cats, and trains don’t wake me up, so not a problem [...]
Miss Milwaukee 1959
First of all, thanks to those of you who continue to vote in my idiotic polls. They usually start off as stupid ideas that pop into my head. They later graduate to stupid ideas that show up on my blog. I then spend a week or more trying to figure out if there are any [...]
Write It Down You Selfish Jerk!
After I posted my grandfather’s Thanksgiving thoughts last night, I spent the next few hours re-reading some other things that he wrote. I will definitely be posting more of it in the future. He was a great storyteller, and there are plenty of good stories in his memoirs. TCH brought up something in the comments [...]
School Fundraising–Producing Beggars for at Least 30 Years
Is anyone else really put off when they are attacked by an army of eight year olds in front of the grocery store trying to sell something for their school? We were just talking about this yesterday after our weekly trip to the store. Yesterday’s group of kids wasn’t even selling anything, they were just [...]
It’s All About The Process
Ken has a great post on a project his kids are working on. They’ve researched 4th Amendment Supreme Court cases and are filming re-enactments (he hopes). Technology has given them the opportunity to learn in a way that they couldn’t before, and even if they never get to finalizing filming and editing, he’s okay with [...]
Divided We Fail — Scary
I saw this commercial for dividedwefail.org twice last night, and I find it pretty disturbing. Now the AARP (it’s actually an ad by them promoting their agenda) is using kids to scare us with health care and social security. I’m sure the AARP’s big concern is kids. After all, there is nothing to be gained [...]
