Reaction to Random Catalysts

I collect books and make bookshelves in my apartment, and I do so faster than I can read them all. So when I read them, how do I decide what I will read next? I am not one who is given to automatically read what is on the current New York Times Bestsellers List--just as Billboard does not influence... Sign in to see full entry.

I went out skiing today, but before doing so I went to a men's breakfast at the church. There were leftovers, so I came away with some extra sausage patties and french toast. I decided to pack some of this for my lunch at the ski slopes. There was also kale salad in my refrigerator, so I combined... Sign in to see full entry.

President Obama came out today, reacting to judicial jeopardy that his monstrous health policy now faces. He chided the justices that they need to show "restraint," that is, in his mind, not to overturn ObamaCare. Again, he perverts terminology. It is the liberal justices who tend to be guilty of... Sign in to see full entry.

Should I come across more money, one of the first things to go will be my used printer--to be replaced by one that will not cause me so much aggravation. My printer can be fussy about how paper is fed into it. Some documents also--particularly ones full of a wide array of graphics--cause the printer... Sign in to see full entry.

Daylight savings came earlier in the month, but today another hour was lost--an hour lost to dimmed lights in cities around the globe to mark the encroaching alarm of "climate change." The Chicken Littles out there used to call it "global warming,' but in the succeeding years after 1998 the... Sign in to see full entry.

No doubt there are some of you who have gone through what I am going through now--namely seeing my book The Red Meadows all around the world on various online book catalogs. Outside of the United States, I have seen book catalogs representing Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, Scandinavia, Germany,... Sign in to see full entry.

It is a "gift." That is the dumb, arrogant remark of liberal minion and justice Elana Kagan in the face of the intellectual drubbing the liberals were taking in the Supreme Court proceedings on the Constitutionality of ObamaCare. The government does not give gifts. Rather, it takes my money through... Sign in to see full entry.

A while ago, I had sent a postcard (pertaining to my book translation, The Red Meadows ) to my mother, but she never received it. Today, I addressed a number of postcards and was going to send them. I went over to a parcel/post business to mail them, but I also needed extra postage on one on account... Sign in to see full entry.

According to a radio program I heard this morning, it was on this date in 1790 that shoe laces were invented. I don't know where that comes from, because when I searched websites--e.g. Wikiedia--on the subject, they have been around a lot longer than that. Shoe tying, I should say, is sometimes a... Sign in to see full entry.

My coworker's failed attempt to make a paper airplane from a thin sheet of card board triggered my memory or a scientific fact about folding paper that I had learned in grade school, namely that you cannot fold over a piece of paper seven times. I tried it on a piece of paper at home. Sure enough,... Sign in to see full entry.