Truth, Justice and Chocolate Bunny Rabbits
A new favorite Mexican restaurant. Since graduation weekend I've taken a couple of culinary side trips to northern Virginia eateries. Nothing fancy, but I did come up with a new favorite Tex-Mex restaurant to replace Tequila Grande in Vienna. Uncle Julio's is a Texas chain that has a place here in Fairfax. Now when friends want to meet for Mexican food I'm going to recommend Uncle Julio's. Its my new favorite.
A new favorite charity. I've also got a new favorite charity. Bugles Across America provides real live buglers to play taps at veteran's funerals. A worthy charity. They have over 6,000 volunteer buglers across the United States. The organization provides buglers for some 1,000 funerals a month. Oh, and did I mention Tom Day (the founder of this non-profit) is a former Marine?
I agree with Joe Biden. Please don't grab your chest and stagger across the room. If you know my conservative bent you'll know this is a stretch but I agree with Joe Biden. The Vice President's wife Jill made an appearance at the Race for the Cure. Joe just happened to show up and support his wife, a long time advocate in the fight against breast cancer. So, I found something where Joe Biden and I agree!
It is called "alignment". I have a "dream job" in many ways. My 'tentmaking' job (which allows me to do Kingdom work) is providing strategy and in that capacity I often talk about "alignment", which simply put is bringing all of your activities in line with the mission of the organization. Few of the organizations I work with do it well and even fewer churches and religious non-profits do it at all. So I was surprised to read that Liberty University has reacted to the Democratic group on their campus. Everyone has a right to an opinion. No one has a right to be wrong in their facts. Read the facts here, courtesy of the Washington (com)Post. You can form your own opinion. I'm going to go write a check for a donation to Liberty.
Lightning in a bottle. OK. Get ready to clutch your chest again. I agree with the National Organization for Women. Their recent decision to put David Letterman's recent actions - including his non-apology - in their Media Wall of Shame. Letterman's recent misogynist manifestations deserve NOW's censure. I'm glad NOW finally stepped up to the plate. Letterman's "joke" was offensive. Period.
Now (after truth and justice) for the chocolate bunny rabbits. The fun thing about the merging of news and entertainment is that all news is reported with the same gravitas. War, famine, pestilence, disease, genocide - and chocolate bunny rabbits all are reported with carefully crafted and word smithed reportage. I loved this line from the Wall Street Journal's article "Europe's High Court Takes On a Bunny Suit Made of Chocolate": "Mr. Lange is the Elmer Fudd of chocolate rabbit look-alikes." Now THAT'S hard hitting journalism.
Hoping for relief. I was hoping for relief from the overcrowding on my book shelves when I saw the title of this Washington (com)Post article, "Book Smarts: Ways to Stash Your Stacks." No such luck, of course. The article was all about using books and shelving in decorating. As we already have a large number of books I was hoping to downsize.
I've had some success using textbooks.com. I took a stack two weeks ago from my dissertation bookshelf, typed in the ISBN numbers at the textbooks.com web site, then printed out a mailing label. I took the books they were currently buying - about 20 in all - to UPS, where the label allowed textbooks.com to take care of the shipping. A little over a week later I had the check. Not a huge check but at least I had some remuneration. The problem is that they weren't buying that many books : -(Bookman'sWhen we lived in Dallas there was a terrific used book store (actually a small chain) called Half Price Books. They would always buy your books (at a better rate than textbooks.com I might add) and it was a great place to while away a Saturday afternoon. (Yes, I'm a certified aficionado of used and antiquarian book stores.) Tucson had a similar place in Bookman's. They also had Zia's Record Exchange for music, but I'll save that for another blog. My point here is that the Washington, DC/northern Virginia has nothing that can compare. It will be another step closer to being a terrific place to live (Hey, they finally brought baseball back, even if it is a National League baseball with a losing record) id we can get a decent used/antiquarian book store here.
If you've had success in selling your used books, either online or locally (preferably here in northern Virginia) I'd love to know.
A new favorite charity. I've also got a new favorite charity. Bugles Across America provides real live buglers to play taps at veteran's funerals. A worthy charity. They have over 6,000 volunteer buglers across the United States. The organization provides buglers for some 1,000 funerals a month. Oh, and did I mention Tom Day (the founder of this non-profit) is a former Marine?
I agree with Joe Biden. Please don't grab your chest and stagger across the room. If you know my conservative bent you'll know this is a stretch but I agree with Joe Biden. The Vice President's wife Jill made an appearance at the Race for the Cure. Joe just happened to show up and support his wife, a long time advocate in the fight against breast cancer. So, I found something where Joe Biden and I agree!
It is called "alignment". I have a "dream job" in many ways. My 'tentmaking' job (which allows me to do Kingdom work) is providing strategy and in that capacity I often talk about "alignment", which simply put is bringing all of your activities in line with the mission of the organization. Few of the organizations I work with do it well and even fewer churches and religious non-profits do it at all. So I was surprised to read that Liberty University has reacted to the Democratic group on their campus. Everyone has a right to an opinion. No one has a right to be wrong in their facts. Read the facts here, courtesy of the Washington (com)Post. You can form your own opinion. I'm going to go write a check for a donation to Liberty.
Lightning in a bottle. OK. Get ready to clutch your chest again. I agree with the National Organization for Women. Their recent decision to put David Letterman's recent actions - including his non-apology - in their Media Wall of Shame. Letterman's recent misogynist manifestations deserve NOW's censure. I'm glad NOW finally stepped up to the plate. Letterman's "joke" was offensive. Period.
Now (after truth and justice) for the chocolate bunny rabbits. The fun thing about the merging of news and entertainment is that all news is reported with the same gravitas. War, famine, pestilence, disease, genocide - and chocolate bunny rabbits all are reported with carefully crafted and word smithed reportage. I loved this line from the Wall Street Journal's article "Europe's High Court Takes On a Bunny Suit Made of Chocolate": "Mr. Lange is the Elmer Fudd of chocolate rabbit look-alikes." Now THAT'S hard hitting journalism.
Hoping for relief. I was hoping for relief from the overcrowding on my book shelves when I saw the title of this Washington (com)Post article, "Book Smarts: Ways to Stash Your Stacks." No such luck, of course. The article was all about using books and shelving in decorating. As we already have a large number of books I was hoping to downsize.
I've had some success using textbooks.com. I took a stack two weeks ago from my dissertation bookshelf, typed in the ISBN numbers at the textbooks.com web site, then printed out a mailing label. I took the books they were currently buying - about 20 in all - to UPS, where the label allowed textbooks.com to take care of the shipping. A little over a week later I had the check. Not a huge check but at least I had some remuneration. The problem is that they weren't buying that many books : -(Bookman'sWhen we lived in Dallas there was a terrific used book store (actually a small chain) called Half Price Books. They would always buy your books (at a better rate than textbooks.com I might add) and it was a great place to while away a Saturday afternoon. (Yes, I'm a certified aficionado of used and antiquarian book stores.) Tucson had a similar place in Bookman's. They also had Zia's Record Exchange for music, but I'll save that for another blog. My point here is that the Washington, DC/northern Virginia has nothing that can compare. It will be another step closer to being a terrific place to live (Hey, they finally brought baseball back, even if it is a National League baseball with a losing record) id we can get a decent used/antiquarian book store here.
If you've had success in selling your used books, either online or locally (preferably here in northern Virginia) I'd love to know.
Regarding Joe Biden even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Also I stopped watching televised news when I realized that all outlets have a fairly high level of unintentional comedy. I suggest reading if you want to be informed. If more Americans did that who knows what might happen?
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If you keep encouraging reading it may just lead to an educated populace which is necessary for a functioning democracy according to Jefferson. To quote G.K. Chesterton "“Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously." Maybe that how we keep getting lawyers elected - but that's just an extrapolation :- )
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Mark Hine made Keith O's most hated man in America that week. The group was told they could not be sanctioned by LU as an official club due to the national affiliation with things such as pro-abortion stands. They were not told they were not to meet at LU, only that they were not sanctioned or financially supported. The Chancellor even suggested they investigate an anti-abortion democratic group for possible official sanction.
I don't see how Mark could be the most hated anything, but then again he is my brother in law.
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I am really surprised that you would support LU in its decision on the Dem campus group. There is much good in both Dem and Rep parties, as there are many repugnant people and beliefs held in both parties. To single one out over the other is arbitrary. Did you notice that on 23 June LU came to a 'compromise' with both the Dem and Rep clubs and said they would both be unofficial now? That's much more fair.
That so many Christians think Republicans have a corner on morality is yet another reason I am now an Independent voter. Why would I want to be associated with a party that holds itself as the keeper of 'traditional' morals yet can't seem to get its own leaders to live within those stated moral standards?
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