Straight Talk in a Crooked World
Awesome! Pop-Up Hallelujah Chorus at Macy. Imagine browsing through a Macy’s store while a gigantic pipe organ is playing– cool, right? You can actually do this at a Macy’s store in Philadelphia, home of the largest pipe organ in the world, the Wanamaker Organ. This organ’s first phase was built in 1904, and it was added on […]
Read More Listen To Those Pipes!November 19th is World Toilet Day. For real. When someone forwarded an email to me about this, I thought it was a joke. I thought the link they gave me would go straight to The Onion or another goofy site. But this is serious business for some charities involved in bringing clean water and sanitation […]
Read More World Toilet DayEarlier this week, one of my fellow writers on the Time’s Up crime victims advocacy blog, Anglican priest Charles Moncrief, posted a touching tribute to our veterans. While I read the article, I didn’t watch the video he posted along with it at the time. http://timesupblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/honoring-veterans-based-on-john-13.html
Read More I Fought For YouTonight’s episode of CBS’ 48 Hours was about Washington’s own Colton Harris-Moore. There had been little about Harris-Moore in the media lately until he was indicted on five federal charges this week. He’ll be arraigned next Thursday. I tried to keep an open mind while watching this 48 Hours episode, but it was hard to […]
Read More 48 Hours – Harris-MooreEric Niiler of Discovery News has just posted some information on biotherapy that could be great news for those with intestinal problems: http://news.discovery.com/human/parasites-leeches-maggots-worms-medicine.html. Using parasites such as whipworms, leeches, and maggots sounds creepy crawly nasty, but the former could bring long-awaited relief to people with inflammatory bowel disease.
Read More Diet of WormsOf the nearly five million American veterans who served in World War I, only one remains, 109 year-old Frank Buckles of Virginia. Buckles says he owes it to his fellow soldiers to make a national World War I memorial a reality http://www.herald-mail.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=256443&format=html.
Read More The Last VeteranYet another ugly truth about where animals go when they’re done racing has come out. The Seattle Times published this feature on the fate of racehorses once they’ve aged out of the sport or are no longer generating money. Living | Rescue groups save racehorses from slaughterhouses | Seattle Times Newspaper.
Read More Racehorse RacketNational Geographic’s Breaking Orbit blog just did a great feature on Space Bat: http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/breakingorbit/2010/10/discovery-launch-space-bat-halloween.html. It includes the Space Bat tribute video and links to associated sites including a memorial site. Unforunately, many of the other sites listed at the memorial site don’t work. If you want to go straight to the video, click here:
Read More Space Bat(Originally published November 3rd, 2010… and I can’t say the 2011 election has been any better.) Cue the sinister “investigative reporting” synthesizer note… The TV screen oozes forth in black and white, centered on a tilted photograph of a disheveled man in an “I’m with Stupid” t-shirt who looks like he just had his eyes […]
Read More Join Me in Twirling, Twirling, Twirling Towards FreedomIsn’t it funny when you assume that someone’s talents and interests are somehow limited to their job description? Only recently I learned that a longtime family friend, a firefighter/paramedic, is also the musical director at his church and has recorded several CDs. On that note (pun intended), I’d like to introduce readers to Rob McCoy […]
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Truth, Justice, and All-American Allergen-Free Apple Pie 