Tuesday, March 15, 2011
“The Ides of March have come.” ”Aye, Caesar, but not gone.”
William Shakespeare Julius Caesar Act III Scene 1
This date most certainly did not bode well for Julius Caesar, at least in 44 BCE. Being assassinated can really ruin a person’s day, as Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy can both attest too. (Well, actually, they can’t.)
Though it usually bodes very well here in Minnesota, where spring is just around the corner. Technically, it starts this coming Sunday at 6:21 p.m., when the sun crosses the equator in its trek northward toward the Tropic of Cancer. It can’t start soon enough for me. This has been a brutal winter for …
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Saturday, March 12, 2011
I woke yesterday morning to headlines that were nothing short of apocalyptic. The pictures coming out of Japan look like something out of a Roland Emmerich movie, and they were reporting that in a couple of hours the same was going to hit the West Coast. The tsunami apparently lost a good bit of its energy in its journey across the Pacific (a little short of 5,000 miles, according to Google Earth). While I am not a praying man, I am trying to send some good vibrations (probably a poor choice of words) to our suffering friends in Japan. At least we’ve both put that little bit of nastiness from 1941-1945 behind us.
Before I move on to …
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Friday, December 31, 2010
It’s hard to know where to start in writing a review of the news stories of 2010, I suppose I could start with the catastrophic earthquake that shook Haiti on January 12, but that would be depressing. I could comment on the celebrities who have died this year – Rue McClanahan, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves and Corey Haim to name a few, but that would be morbid. I’d rather take a look at some of the lighter news stories, and the lighter side of the scarier ones.
The top story, of course, is that we finally got “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repealed. But that’s still too fresh, and I’d like to look back at some of the other things …
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