"Why is it that drug addicts and computer afficianados are both called 'users'?" - Clifford Stall

Gotta love anyone with this kind of ambition.

I sure don't understand that murder of the couple in FL who had adopted the special needs kids.
Apparently this group of seven men had planned the break-in for some time, had cased the house and even gone through rehearsals. So they must have known who lived there and their circumstances.
The authorities have said that the motives for this crime go beyond burglary and are complex. Complex and despicable. Sick, in the evil sense of that word.
IMHO, this is an example of why we need the death penalty.

I spent time this morning working on a writing project. I've got a couple of those on deck, one of which carries a deadline - the end of this month.
I worked on the other one, the one with no deadline. Hey, it's all about inspiration.

Writing is easier than speaking, especially since the advent of computers. If I go too long nobody knows because I make the necessary edits before they see it. Spell and grammar check keep me from clumsy mistakes (although they won't catch "anxious" when I really mean "eager"). And I get to go through as many re-writes as I want.

I've always found writing fairly easy and enjoyable. And while I enjoy speaking I'm beginning to think that, especially with the advent of word processing, I'm better at writing.

While we're on that topic, I remember when...

• Writing was actually writing, not typing.
• And typing was done on a typewriter, not a keyboard.
  
• We made a light pencil mark an inch up from the bottom of the paper.
• IBM wasn't best known for computers.
• Windows were made of glass (but they still crashed).
• Mac was what my chorale teacher called me.

Today in Warren, MI the President unveiled a plan that will pump $12 billion into the community college system over the next 10 years. I am a big fan of community and technical colleges. IMHO they've been undervalued and under-utilized for too long. But seriously, Mr. President, we can't keep throwing money at everything without paying some really serious consequencees in the future.

Thursday is "tax freedom day." That's the point in the year when the average American begins working for himself. Heretofore he/she has been working to pay their tax bill. This shift comes four days later in the year than it did in 2008 and 17 days later than in 2000.
I'm worried that eight years from now we'll have pushed it into September.

I just learned that "whom" always follows a preposition. I think I've used who and whom correctly, but never known the rule.
"It was done by whom?"
"Who did it?"
I'm eager to plug this new rule into my consciousness.

Because of our time zone I can watch the Tour De France stages at 5 a.m.; I'm up anyway.
It's on Versus, a cable network that carries sporting events not typically found on ESPN or the broadcast networks.
During one of the commercial breaks this morning they ran a 60-second ad for their network that included rapid-fire clips from a wide range of sporting events. The voice-over talked about the ever present chance of an upset, of a total underdog beating out the odds-on favorite. One line about the variables always present in any sporting match up caught my attention.

"Because life isn't a math exam."

That line is a keeper.
"With God all things are possible."