Monthly Archives: October 2008

History Channel show – Black Blizzard

Update: For whatever reason this article gets a lot of hits.  Here is a show on the Dust Bowl from the PBS program American Experience.  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/dustbowl/ The History Channel just aired a 2-hour program about the Dust Bowl in the … Continue reading

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Evernote Mac client sorely lacking

I’ve been using Evernote for awhile now.  The Windows client is pretty good.  The editor supports ordered/unordered lists, font types, color, etc.   All of the expected things in a rich text editor are there. At the same time the Mac … Continue reading

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What is wrong with us as a society?

If anything this presidential election has been an eye opener.  And these days it’s becoming kind of scary.  With the world economy tanking the McCain/Palin campaign is stoking fear in their supporters with the “palling around with terrorists” crap.   We … Continue reading

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To Mr. Robert Bolson: put this in your pipe and smoke it

This from the lead federal prosecutor of the Weathermen/Weather Underground in the 1970s: Although I dearly wanted to obtain convictions against all the Weathermen, including Bill Ayers, I am very pleased to learn that he has become a responsible citizen. … Continue reading

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Sarah’s got skeletons in her closet … the AIP

Just to make sure everyone is on the same page: Barack Obama has been ‘palling around with terrorists’ because: He sat on a board with William Ayers, former member of the Weather Underground. He also launched his political career in … Continue reading

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