Sunday, October 28, 2007

News From the Real World

›
Researchers from a Welsh university have discovered a 400-year-old clam off Iceland. When the clam was transported to Wales it immediately ...
Sunday, October 21, 2007

"It looked like a war zone."

›
No, it didn't. First of all, there is no such thing as a war zone. There is war, of course, and it is nasty, ugly, violent, foul, and l...

Chaucer and the Laboratory Tales

›
I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, bo...
Sunday, October 7, 2007

Another Doping Scandal

›
Mack Hall "Hello. Sniff. Boohoo. I know that my name, Winthrop Postlewaithe, is on everyone’s lips, and that millions of little boys an...
Sunday, September 30, 2007

Jesus and the Twelve Apostrophes

›
Recently I had occasion to visit a facility offering something called healthcare (sic). Such an event used to be called going to the doctor,...
Saturday, September 22, 2007

Canada Takes Charge

›
The Canadian dollar is worth more than the American dollar for the first time since our invasion of Canada in 1775, which of course we Ameri...
Sunday, September 16, 2007

Anticipating November

›
Mist and Meteors Little Leonids, falling from the stars Space dust, they say, sailing from far away Why have you come to us, and why so far?...

Madonna, the Yenta Ouijazilla

›
Poor Israel – surrounded by genocidal neighbors who stay up late polishing their North Korean nukes and listening to The Voices. And now, p...
Saturday, September 15, 2007

But What About New Orleans?

›
Hey, people -- stop cleaning up now, go back into the house (if you still have one), and write a big ol' check to send to New Orleans. ...
Friday, September 14, 2007

Hurricane Humberto

›
Al Caldwell and KLVI always get life right. In crises and on ordinary mornings the discerning listener will roll the little red line to AM ...
Sunday, September 9, 2007

A Workman

›
Mack Hall Flavius: Thou art a cobbler, art thou? Second Commoner: Truly, sir, all that I live by is with the awl. I meddle with no tradesma...

Archbishop of Los Angeles Evicts Elderly Nuns

›
Thanks to Gerald Augustinus at The Cafeteria is Closed for this heads-up from The Los Angeles Times : L.A. Archdiocese plans to sell the San...
Saturday, September 8, 2007

September

›
Mack Hall The hot, humid air hangs heavily, old, On unnaturally green late summer days Afternoon clouds billow up, blues and greys, And thun...

Kirbyville at Dawn

›

Sidonian Dido

›
Mack Hall Sidonian Dido, Africa's queen -- Dreamer on the Mediterranean shore: Why is it that your truth has not been seen? In singing a...
Monday, September 3, 2007

A B17 Over Jasper, Texas

›
I took this shot from ground level during Jasper's annual air show in April of 2006. And I confess that I touched -- gently -- an RAF Sp...

Down From the Door Where it Began

›
The road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began Now far ahead the road has gone And I must follow, if I can Pursuing it with ...

Down From the Door Where it Began

›
The road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began Now far ahead the road has gone And I must follow, if I can Pursuing it with ...

My Hero!

›
I would not wear images of other people on my clothing even if I weren't my own greatest hero.

The Photocopier Squeals

›
The office photocopier can be a marvelous source of wisdom as well as of trivia. Sometimes one clears the scanner glass and learns what joys...