Archive for August, 2006
Thursday, August 31st, 2006
Italian WHAT?
Here at Harding University, we build chapels to promote our campus.
Apparently, Ole Miss is using another approach.
Or, it’s a typo. I’ve been in Searcy for so long that I really don’t know what’s happening at other schools.
h/t af
10 Comments » - Posted in Ole Miss, alumni relations, college by ME
Thursday, August 31st, 2006
My Father Never Drove a Car
Michael Gartner has written a nice story about his dad who, unlike my dad, was not a driver.
Gartner has been a newspaper editor and president of NBC News. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1997 for editorial writing.
If you have aging parents or grandparents, I think you’ll appreciate his story.
h/t Drew
5 Comments » - Posted in fathers by ME
Thursday, August 31st, 2006
The Chapel in the Sky
I’ve been walking from home to the Harding campus in the morning this semester. With the weather cooling off, it has been very pleasant.
The exercise does me good and it gives me time to do some thinking.
I walked over to school extra early yesterday morning to take some pictures of the new chapel in [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in college by ME
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
Search ME
School’s back in session, so my blog traffic is back to where it was in May.
Most people on campus know where to find me — I think the rest of the world just enters a combination of unrelated words at Google and then hopes for the best.
Here is this month’s installment of the top-ten search [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in blogging, search ME by ME
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
Stop the Presses (Again)
Now that John Mark Karr has been cleared of the murder of JonBennet Ramsey, the producers of America’s 24/7 cable news industry are going to have to come up with something else to keep their viewers tuned in all day.
Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post has already observed that the arrest of John Mark Karr [...]
9 Comments » - Posted in crime, media by ME
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
Katrinaversary
Tuesday was a day when individuals recognized with a jolt they were entirely on their own. New Orleans didn’t make sense anymore. Protection from danger was gone. - Douglas Brinkley, The Great Deluge
There are anniversaries that you wish you could celebrate every day and then there are those that you wish had never happened in [...]
15 Comments » - Posted in Douglas Brinkley, Katrina, US Coast Guard by ME
Monday, August 28th, 2006
Cheers Without Jeers Monday
Well, sort of. But I absolutely refuse to participate in “Sounds like somebody has a case of the Mondays” this semester.
So, three cheers for…
The state of Pennsylvania for dropping its McCarthy-era loyalty oath for candidates seeking public office. Another archaic and meaningless law designed to keep dissidents in place has been consigned to [...]
14 Comments » - Posted in Mondays, cheerleading by ME
Saturday, August 26th, 2006
This Week’s Sign of the Impending Apocalypse (#43)
A penny that is said to bear the image of the devil has been purchased for $170.10 on Ebay.
The US-minted penny was purchased by Dieter Hoch of Winnipeg, Canada on Tuesday from an anonymous seller who was trying to unload the demon coin before it burned a hole in his pocket.
According to a written description [...]
No Comments » - Posted in the Apocalypse by ME
Friday, August 25th, 2006
Caption This Friday
Great moments in higher education: Harding University Convocation, 2006.
32 Comments » - Posted in caption this, college by ME
Thursday, August 24th, 2006
Low Prices Every Day, Comrade
In light of the discussion today about Wal-Mart, it was interesting to learn that the company that loathes trade unions doesn’t mind if its employees are members of the communist party.
But only in China, of course.
The Chinese Communist Party announced on Thursday that Wal-Mart, the world’s largest private employer, will allow the 700 employees at [...]
