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There’s a new weblog called The Burnt Orange Report and a couple days back it had a pretty good post about the Dallas mayoral election coming up.
I live in North Dallas and I find it surprising the amount of support Laura Miller has here in what I think of as a Republican […]

Here’s one more rose that I just had to post. This is another one whose name I do not know. We rustled it from a neighbor’s yard after she moved away and left it. (We just took a part of it - not the whole thing). You can’t really […]

I’ve just returned from taking another class at the  school of woodworking. Woodworking is something that I have just recently discovered. Unlike a lot of guys I never took a class in it in junior high school. From my father I learned some basic woodworking skills for home repair projects, mostly […]

Today is Earth Day, although you would hardly know it from the amount of news coverage it has generated. Environmental issues seem to be less and less important these days. To be fair timing is not good this year. Supporters usually plan events on the closest weekend […]

Reading this reminded me of a science fiction novel I read many years ago. I think it may have been something by Heinlein. Earth had been invaded by parasitic aliens who attached themselves to you in inconspicuous locations. For security reasons it was necessary for everyone to go about their daily […]