The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.
Marjorie HolmesSeptember 2005
Monthly Archive
Fri 30 Sep 2005
Fri 30 Sep 2005
It is a highly addictive drug, but governments everywhere encourage its use. Read the story in Prospect Magazine
Thu 29 Sep 2005
- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.David Letterman
- If winter is slumber, and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It’s a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it’s time to reflect on what’s come before.Mitchell Burgess
- It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.P.D. James
Thu 29 Sep 2005
I ran across a link to popular baby names at the Social Security Administration and I just couldn’t resist finding out how popular I was. It appears that I have been getting more popular since I was born, because the rank of the name “Jonathan” has been rising from 118th most popular male baby name when I was born to its current level in the low twenties. I don’t know why I’ve been getting more popular, but the US Government wouldn’t lie would it?
What continues to amaze me is despite being in the top twenty-five names given to baby males in the last twenty-four years how many people get it wrong. Is it really that difficult? One nice thing for me is the fact that there weren’t that many kids with my name that I went to school with, so when someone called my name, it usually meant that they wanted me for something (or I was in trouble), not like those hoards of: Dave, Mike, Jim, John, Bob, Mark, Bill, Dick, Tom, and Steves that always had at least two members in every classroom.
Wed 28 Sep 2005
In the Northwest Georgia Mountains you don’t see too many people hang-gliding. So, Bubba decided to save up and get a hang-glider. He takes it to the highest mountain, and after struggling to the top, he gets ready to take flight. He takes off running and reaches the edge—into the wind he goes!
Meanwhile, Maw and Paw Hicks were sittin’ on the porch swing talkin bout the good ol’ days when maw spots the biggest bird she ever seen! “Look at the size of that bird, Paw!” she exclaims. Paw raises up,” Git my gun, Maw.” She runs into the house, brings out his pump shotgun. He takes careful aim. BANG…BANG…..BANG…..BANG! The monster size bird continues to sail silently over the tree tops.
“I think ya missed him, Paw,” she says.
“Yeah,” he replies, “but at least he let go of Bubba.”
via email from John Treworgy, Tue, 27 Sep 2005 05:56:31 -0700Wed 28 Sep 2005
Laughter, by definition, is healthy.
Doris LessingTue 27 Sep 2005
Automized and computerized industry requires more and more young men and women who have white-collar skills but behave with the docility expected of blue-collar workers.
Staughton Lynd
