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An Australopithecus, one Og by name discovered that plants grew better in a tended area where weeds could be kept our and water applied. As Og put it, “me call it garden” and it was a big hit. Now, it happened that some lazy neighbors down the road saw the garden and one of them, Slog thought, “why... Sign in to see full entry.

There are a lot of people who don’t see Islam as the religion of peace, quite the contrary, Islam is seen as a religion that wants to take over the world and impose it’s rule everywhere. After 911, there were numerous reports that meant to reassure us that Islam was truly a religion of peace. Yet,... Sign in to see full entry.

Why is my dial-up so freaking slow and twitchy? I’ll tell you why, the ISP would love to sign me up for wireless or satellite so they can charge more. When I post on Blogit, it takes a minute at least for the new post box to load. That is, if the gremlins in the phone line allow me to stay connected... Sign in to see full entry.

Behold the DVR, modern technology at it’s finest, right? We have one and, well, it seems to be a little flakey. No, make that a lot flakey, but not in a good way like a pie crust is. It started when my wife and I accused each other of deleting some of each others list of programs. Then, we caught it... Sign in to see full entry.

Most of grade school for me came under the tutelage of one teacher. If that seems odd, most of my grade school was spent in one room, the same room shared by the other 8 grades. Yes, it was one of the last one-room schools in rural America. I was lucky, we were four in our grade. The neighbor girl... Sign in to see full entry.

Normalcy isn’t all its cracked up to be. To imagine normal, take a piece of paper, draw a straight line down the middle with a ruler. Imagine that as normal, a C average in scholastic terms. We all know those people that insisted on getting straight A grades. Yeah, they are at the top of the paper.... Sign in to see full entry.

Parallel parking, some find it tantamount to a root canal job. They will circle the block five times to wait for two spots to open up so they can do the pull in thing. Or, in the case of our small town, drive the seventy miles to the “city” where they will circle the parking garages tying to find a... Sign in to see full entry.

The problem, traffic: The United States is by far the largest consumer of petroleum based motor fuel in the world. Add to the rising costs of fuel, the air pollution and injuries traffic creates and it isn’t pretty. The Solution, mass transit: Busses, trains, ferries and even monorails offer the... Sign in to see full entry.

Have you ever said that? When you are feeling down about life and your parents are on your back to get on with your life, have you ever felt like that? It seems plausible, you were plunked down in the middle of life on Earth and now people want you to go to school, get a job, join the everyday... Sign in to see full entry.

There are many things in this life, about which we will never know. Love, for instance. Oh yes, we all know what it is, but not so much why it is or where it comes from. While I may love chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream, it is not the same way I love my wife, my kids or Tim’s jalapeno potato... Sign in to see full entry.