August 18, 2005
Since starting this blog I have spent some time reading other blogs, trying to get a sense of what the blogosphere is comprised of. It’s a mighty vast place, let me tell ya, and I won’t even begin to try and explicate its dimensions, qualities, or import here. Or now, anyway.
July 19, 2005
President Bush assured the nation yesterday if anyone in his administration committed a crime in connection with the public leak of the identity of an undercover CIA operative, that person will “no longer work in my administration.”
July 12, 2005
One of the greatest things about the Universe is that, often, just about the time I am feeling good and satisfied with my progress in it, it reveals to me just how little I do know, and how much further advanced are others around me.
February 10, 2005
Sometimes I feel like the little boy in the cortege at the end of “The Emperor’s New Clothes.”
November 10, 2004
When I was a sophomore in college, a friend of mine’s father came to town to watch a horse he owned run in the Louisiana Derby. It was an exciting week. We got full privileges at the racetrack and spent lots of time hanging around the paddock with Dr. K and his horse trainer, watching Spartan Emperor get put through his paces, getting the inside dope on the mysterious world of high-stakes thoroughbred horse racing.
August 27, 2003
I have felt just the tiniest bit of pride in heretofore producing this series of essays wholly out of the cloth of my own thoughts, informed, I hope, by the various threads of texture, color, and substance I manage to glean by having an open mind, an inquisitive spirit, and a desire to distinguish between fact and fiction in this wacky world.
August 1, 2003
Hope springs eternal.
December 1, 2002
I haven’t been feeling much like myself lately. I’ve been a little confused, even, trying to determine just what it is I have been feeling, but whatever it is, it hasn’t been like the me I’ve been struggling to accept and to celebrate for much of the past forty-odd years.