Waiting for a Miracle

Powerful, inspirational lyrics from Bruce Cockburn’s song Waiting for a Miracle:

You stand up proud
You pretend you’re strong
In the hope that you can be

(I first came to know this song by hearing it performed live by the JGB. It’s a very nice, gospel-tinged song, and a fine performance is available …

I read the news today, oh boy. It just gets worse and worse. I’ve been a bit farklempt thinking of and reading about the very personal impact this war is having on lives all across our country. Still, we’re there now; what do we do to exit in a manner …

See anything biased about the image below? (It’s from an early May edition of US News and World Report.) Think about it a minute, and see if you can find 3 points of possible bias.

I …

I thought this beautiful picture of comet Bradfield deserved a wider viewing. It is one of 3 comets visible to the naked eye during April and May of 2004; a fairly unusual occurence. More information on these naked eye comets is available in this National Geographic article.

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I got a new dvd-writer to replace one that had died. The Liteon 812s was only 105$ and features the latest technologies: 8X DVD +/- R/RW. It now works great on my XP Pro system, though I did have to update Nero to recognize the drive. In addition, I had to do …

All Good Things is a fragment of a lyric from the Jerry Garcia song, Run for the Roses, and now it is the name of a spectacular new 6 CD box set featuring Jerry’s studio recordings. Most of these songs were performed with the then current arrangement of the Jerry Garcia Band or other …

This is a riff on the 23rd page meme that passed through the blogosphere last week.

1. Go into your blog’s archives.
2. Find your 23rd post (or closest to).
3. Find the fifth sentence (or closest to).
4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.

there’s power in …