Lost Journal: I’m Not Driving Defensively…You are!
By Tim Mollen Journal entry: March 24, 2007 (age 37) I have never been a particularly good driver. When I first started driving, over 20 years ago, my … Read more
Blogs
Various blogs, featuring humor, oddities, news and interesting items.
Kitchen Fission
Richard Handl of Sweden was fascinated by nuclear fission. Unlike most of us, he missed the “Don’t try this at home.” note at the bottom with the little … Read more
A Different Kind Of Funeral
Holy Smoke is just the thing for when the avid hunter or gun collector in your family passes. From their web site: Several years ago I … Read more
A Banned Book Fights Back
(Reuters) – Up to 150 students at a Missouri high school that ordered “Slaughterhouse-Five” pulled from its library shelves can get a free copy of the novel, courtesy … Read more
“I Had A Friend”
That is a rough translation of the first line of the German military funeral hymn. “Ich hatt einen Kameraden.” It is also the funeral hymn of … Read more
The Hound Is A Lonely Hunter
If you have a male dog it has happened to you. You boss is over for dinner…or perhaps it is the minister’s wife,. Everything is going fine until … Read more
Of Compassion and Crustaceans
Saving a lost or stranded whale is great for the TV news and for making us all feel warm inside for a moment or two and kittens and … Read more
Lost Journal: This Fan Club is What’s Happening
By Tim Mollen Journal entry: March 7, 1987 (age 17) Each generation struggles to define itself. As part of that struggle, it must elevate certain people into icons … Read more
Bread Lines And Circuses
“Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and less elegant generation called the … Read more
Friction…and a Lot of Weight
The above is what happens when a train stops, but the slave engines don’t get the signal to stop. The main engine stops and all of the cars … Read more
