Editormum's Oddments for Thursday, February 06, 2003

Thursday, February 6, 2003

Things I Wonder About

I wonder why my children love Barney but are terrified of clowns. I wonder why Blue is a girl dog, and Magenta is a boy dog. Shouldn't it be the other way around? I wonder why my candles never burn down straight like my friend's do. My pillar candles always burn down into shapes vaguely reminiscent... Sign in to see full entry.

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I Don't Want a Smoking Gun!

Someone correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't a smoking gun usually mean that it has already been discharged? If that is, in fact, the case, then I don't want us to find a smoking gun before we disarm Saddam Hussein. I don't want our incentive to stop this man to be that he has already nuked some... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thinking About the War

Like most people, I find the idea of war abhorrent. Rafts of body bags and carved headstones, razed cities --- not an enjoyable thought. I don't relish the idea of sending my dear brothers and friends off to war; even if they weren't killed, the psychological damage they would sustain would be as... Sign in to see full entry.

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A Snow Day

All my friends in the frozen North will laugh, but we have a snow day here in Memphis today. Admittedly, it's not too spectacular to me, as I spent three winters in Chicago and one February in the mountains of Washington State, but it's the most snow my children have ever seen. Non-Southerners have... Sign in to see full entry.

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