- Mike The Squirrel now has food and shelter thanks to me and BoyGeeding.
- I was suppose to have lunch with my pastor this week, but he pulled out because he was admitted to the hospital due to a splenic infarction. That caused me to use Google for the first time yesterday. Hmm, that might be a neat thing to do, to keep track of what’s the first thing I google each day. Thankfully (somewhat sarcastically) Google keeps track of my search history and habits automatically.
- I joked with my pastor that I gladly accept his invitation to preach this Sunday’s sermon, that I’ve been keeping a sermon ready about U2’s use of Christian imagery for just such an occasion. And since he’s a baseball fan, I told him I wouldn’t Wally Pipp him. I thought it was clear I was joking, but his reply made it sound like he was taking me seriously. Maybe it’s his pain medication that’s talking.
- Florida High School Cancels ‘Indecent,’ a Play About Censorship on Broadway in 1923
- Kentucky parents concerned after teen who compiled ‘kill list’ was allowed to return to school – “Whatever help he has gotten, he is still a threat,” says worried mom.
- The story behind this photo – When a British Airways Captain got sucked out of a BAC One-Eleven a flight attendant grabbed his legs and avoided him going out completely – The pilot was flying again five months later.
- The inventor of the Ouija board also owned a company called The Swastika Novelty Company which folded in 2014.
- By two years, I’ve lived more years with my father deceased than he was alive.
- TEDed – How Southern socialites rewrote Civil War history
- The United Daughters of the Confederacy was a significant leader of the “Lost Cause,” a movement that revised history to look more favorably on the South after the American Civil War. Their work with local governments, education, and schoolchildren created a lasting memory of the Confederate cause, and those generations grew up to be the segregationists of the Jim Crow Era. Vox looks at how the UDC rewrote history.
- Someone had to pen, that is, physically write, the U.S. Constitution, that person was Jacob Shallus.
- The Surprising History of the Pencil – What medieval smuggling has to do with the atomic structure of carbon.
- That BK commercial will pop up in the most random of places.
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— Annie Agar (@AnnieAgar) January 17, 2023