Thursday, February 6, 2003
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...
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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...
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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...
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Tuesday, February 4, 2003
On Being "Between Jobs"
Since November, I have been "between jobs." (That's what the headhunters and career counselors tell me to say. I've been told that "unemployed" and "laid off" are too negative, and will make me feel more depressed while making prospective employers concerned about my emotional stability. Whatever. )...
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Sunday, February 2, 2003
First Sunday Musings
Today is the first Sunday of February, so we had Communion at church. It was unusual, almost difficult, for me, as it was my almost-six-year-old's first. He asked Jesus into his heart a couple of weeks ago, and I told him he could take Communion with me today. I was very happy for him, of course,...
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Saturday, February 1, 2003
Thoughts on Today's Tragedy
I was hurled into the strangest sense of deja vu this morning when I turned on the television. First of all, I was mentally steeling myself for an hour of kiddie-fare, as it was time for Blues Clues and Dora the Explorer, without which my sons' week is not complete. So to get, not Joe and Blue, but...
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