Guest Blogger

Nice people who keep things interesting while I am away.

April 10, 2004
Every Blog Needs an Iris Photo
Irises are wonderful and I have not seen any on this blog for awhile. So may this brighten everyone's day...
Posted by Bill at 06:38 PM | Read More
January 24, 2004
The Bible in Fifty Words
Don't have the time or patience to get through the whole Bible? Here's a shorter version. A friend sent me...
Posted by Bill at 06:44 AM | Read More
January 23, 2004
Hao Hao Xin Nian
src="http://www.notfrisco2.com/webzine/Joel/archives/squares/square08 1.gif" width="50" height="50" border="0" align="left" />Is it because of some biochemical imbalance that Republicans think everything out of...
Posted by Billy at 04:34 AM | Read More
October 13, 2003
Thanks
maximilian sunflowers I've had a great time as a guest blogger here. It's been a chance to do some...
Posted by Bill at 06:20 PM | Read More
Our Weight Problem
Like a lot of other Americans I struggle with a weight problem. I exercise regularly but that only burns so...
Posted by Bill at 10:49 AM | Read More
October 11, 2003
Ageism
Today, I had my first ever, live-and-in-public poetry reading. I've been wanting to do it for a while, but have...
Posted by Beata at 04:08 PM | Read More
Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau wrote: The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their...
Posted by Billy at 06:10 AM | Read More
A New Broom
With the recall election it looks like Democrats shot themselves in the foot once again. From where I sit (half...
Posted by Bill at 05:17 AM | Read More
October 10, 2003
Car Race
Gerald Gorman owns a Chrysler dealership in Chicago -- it's a DaimlerChrysler dealership -- and DaimlerChrysler toted Gorman's inventory of...
Posted by Billy at 09:53 AM | Read More
It Pays To Increase Your Word Power...
I came across the following word in a journal article recently... eurologophallophobia It seems to me, you can unpack the...
Posted by Beata at 09:39 AM | Read More
October 09, 2003
Swing and a Miss
I see where, in a speech to the National Guard in New Hampshire today, our President, who is becoming a...
Posted by Billy at 09:25 AM | Read More
October 08, 2003
Not A Total Loss
While, unfortunately, Californians chose to elect Conan, (about which I don't even know where to begin...) Proposition 54 failed. If...
Posted by Beata at 08:14 PM | Read More
October 07, 2003
God and Atheism
Does the USA exist? How could anyone claim that it doesn't exist? But then you can't actually point to it....
Posted by Bill at 07:05 PM | Read More
October 06, 2003
Intelligent Design?
The Science content standards in New Mexico were recently challenged by a group calling themselves Intelligent Design. These folks object...
Posted by Beata at 10:42 AM | Read More
October 05, 2003
Vote
Posted by Bill at 04:33 PM | Read More
Atheism
Yesterday I wrote about the "brights," a new name for people who we used to call atheists or agnostics. I...
Posted by Bill at 11:56 AM | Read More
October 04, 2003
"No, It's Magic -- Don't Look In That Hand!"
This is torture. No, not the California recall. I don't live in California; so, I look at the recall as...
Posted by Billy at 06:50 PM | Read More
Participatory Democracy
"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." Emma Goldman I was thumbing through my beloved Northern Sun catalog this...
Posted by Beata at 12:06 PM | Read More
The Brights
My November issue of Atlantic Monthly arrived in the mail today and has an article on the use of "bright"...
Posted by Bill at 06:10 AM | Read More