October 2009

It seems I've toyed with this title of and on for a long time... Here's an explanation of why... synchronicity is the experience of two or more events that are causally unrelated occurring together in a meaningful manner. To count as synchronicity, the events should be unlikely to occur together by chance. coordinator – someone whose task is to see that work goes harmoniouslyarranger, organizer, organiser – a person who brings order and…

Cousin Contact

I have heard from cousins on a couple of my lines recently. Over the past month I have heard from relatives of my mothers grandmother, Della Blair Medford. This Blair line had been mostly unknown until I heard from two different cousins with their own lines. One is sharing photos which I will be posting over the coming days to…

So Who Is A Real Farmer?

I am not a real farmer, my neighbors say, because I don’t do it for money. That’s almost funny because the economists are saying that nobody’s farming for money this year. Although the corn crop is good in most of the midwest, there’s not much profit in it. Some go as far as projecting that on average, corn farmers will…

Collaborative Picasa Web Albums

Picasa is one of the most popular online photo publishing services available. However, it has always been a place to publish your photos for others to see. Now Google (the owners of Picasa) have introduced Collaborative Picasa Web Albums. Every album on Picasa Web Albums is potentially collaborative: multiple people can add pictures to the same album. You can now…

And The Deregulation Gifts Just Keep Right On Giving…

The role of speculators in the world's oil markets has been widely blamed for bringing consumers $4 gasoline last summer — and rightly so. A recently completed study by two Baker Institute scholars further confirms that this blame is not misplaced and recommends specific ways to do something to limit the speculators' influence. Research by Baker's Amy Myers Jaffe and…

Are We About To Witness Judicial Activism From The Right?

THERE ARE MANY complicated aspects of the campaign-finance case the Supreme Court is poised to hear Wednesday, but the issue boils down to this: Will the justices let corporations spend unlimited amounts to elect or defeat candidates for federal office? This course of action would be unwise and unnecessary to resolve the dispute at hand. via Court Should Take Conservative…

A Reply From The Senator…And My Thoughts

If you read my post a while back about Senator Cornyn's response to the White House's request that people forward the emails they received with disinformation...You may be interested in his reply that arrived today... Dear Mr. Boyd: Thank you for contacting me about President Obama’s new initiative to monitor American citizens’ speech about his health care policies. I appreciate…