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Is This A Man Bites Dog Story or What?

I was poking around on a website called Creative Minority Report.
Check it out. Baseball is an interesting sport and different from the others. Here is another story about this rare phenomenon.
It reminds me of a time a few years ago when I was wandering around the NFL Hall of Fame and Museum in Canton Ohio,… »

This is instructive: 2010 Index of Economic Freedom

This website has more useful information than… »

Good Stuff in the Gazette

Feeling much better after 3 days of diverticulitis, a kind of inflammatory bowel disease lite, I got up early Sunday morning, and was further revived by some good news in the Gazette.

Snowflake from the collection of Kenneth Libbrecht

Donna Healy, one of my favorites, writes about snowflakes here. She does mention that old saw about no… »

Greater Tuna Getting Better

Sunday afternoon matinee at Billings Studio Theatre allowed all of us elderly still continent and mostly ambulatory folks to have some fun with a classic small town satire—unlikely to be meant as affectionate originally—but now even the nasty slurs our friends from Texas assign to us small town folks these days are laughed off because… »

I Think I Know These People

Of course we know it is weather. But eventually all those weather thingies add up to climate don’t they?
This comes from this interesting… »

A Christmas To Remember

This was an attempt to capture The Singing Christmas Tree with a small digital camera without flash so as not to draw attention to myself. We saw and heard this extremely good production on Saturday afternoon. If you have a chance it will be repeated on Sunday afternoon at Emmanuel Baptist Church on Shiloh. If… »

The Bottom Of The Sky

This is one of those stories about where you live and what others are doing that make you wonder if you’ve been paying close enough attention to what is going on around you. Roundup and Billings are the featured places and the characters could well be people we’ve all met. Roundup comes off a little… »

The Bell Ringers of Billings Have Returned

I was starting to get a little worried that maybe global warming or our recent financial messes had, like the swallows failing to come back to Capistrano, caused the annual migration of Salvation Army bell ringers to move somewhere else. But I was wrong. I saw my first Bell Ringer at Albertson’s on Rehberg and… »

Feast of Mary’s Immaculate Conception

A couple of statues of Mary as seen in passing while visiting Rome a year or two ago.

This is a kind of liturgy but in stone rather than word and song.
I first saw this Pieta at the New York World’s Fair in about 1964. It seems to me we were on a moving sidewalk and… »

Going Rogue

2 December 2009
This was a fun book to read. Especially if, like me, you were alive and paying attention to the peculiar presidential political melee during the summer and fall of 2008. There were a lot of dogs that didn’t bark and thus the whole thing was more than a little puzzling. This book appears… »