History
Blame for the "wanton spilling of American blood in Korea" was placed upon the shoulders of the Truman Administration by the delegates to the State convention of the California Republican Assembly yesterday. In the concluding session of the convention at the Hotel St. Francis [in San Francisco], the
Music
Mark Hasty dares Spandau Ballet fans to "go public". Hi.
Sports
Went to my first Portland Beavers game tonight, at PGE Park. What a great place to spend a beautiful summer evening! I'll have to fit a few more games in before the season ends. The game got off to a fast start, with Salt Lake scoring three runs
Society
Tom Kirkendall has posted several score times this year on the subject of how certain prosecutors, aided by the post-Enron political environment and the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley law, have been interpreting questionable business practices as grounds for criminal charges. I agree with Tom that the Enron Task
Remarks
[Plato] realized that the possession of goods was not a means of getting happiness, but an effort to make up for a spiritually depauperate life: for Plato, happiness was what one could put into life and not what one could loot out of it: it was the happiness of the
Uncategorized
Moving day is tomorrow, so I'm wrapping up the blog today. I'll post one more time, when I have a Portland blog set up. My thanks to everyone who has been reading and commenting to "Walking? In Houston!?"!
Uncategorized
At the West Gray Kroger's this evening, I saw a package in the seafood section that contained "Atlantic Salmon, farmed in Chile".
Sports
Two thoughts about tonight's game at Minute Maid Park: The score was 1-0 after eight innings. In 25 years of watching baseball, I have never seen a 1-0 game that was so much of an ass-kicking. The bottom of the fifth inning was the worst
Food
On the label of Dasani's new lemon-flavored offering, it describes the contents as a "natural lemon-flavored water beverage". "Water beverage"? Is that the liquid equivalent of "cheese food"?
Music
I was looking over a Greek Eurovision page (when I was in Greece, I heard their Eurovision entry about 15 times a day, so I'm wondering how it will do), and I noticed that Andorra and Monaco had entered the contest this year. Which makes me wonder: If
Sports
So my hometown San Francisco Giants just finished a four-game series here at Minute Maid Field. On Thursday, they won. On Friday, they won. On Saturday, they lost, but at least it was to Roger Clemens. On Sunday, they suffered an old-fashioned Texas horse-whipping. Guess which game
Me
In 45 days, I will be on the road to Portland, Oregon in a big yellow moving van, with all of my worldly possessions in the back. Do I know where I will live when I get to Portland? Nope. (Though my sister has a spare basement to loan me