Today's Posts - 3/9/11

Big rain in Atlanta today. Lots of thunder and lightning.

TV Show I've been watching: Jennifer Garner in Alias.

Book I've been reading: Still on David Hackett Fischer's Champlain. Up to Henry IV chapter. Just finished the St. Bartholemew's Day Massacre.

In today’s blogs,

History Moments: Durant visits the pyramids.

Masters of Finance: We CPA's love Quickbooks. Why?

Literature Daily: Mark Twain’s talking up journaling with passengers.

Political Journal: Obama explains latest policy change on Gitmo. The devil made me do it - or the Republicans. Same thing. No, he didn't say that; the Washington Post's doing it for him.

Today's Posts - 3/8/11

Caught up on some sleep last night.

TV Show I've been watching: Alias, Season 3. I'm at the episodes with all those dream sequences.

Book I've been reading: been doing research on the Franks and Charlemagne for my history blog.

In today’s blogs,

History Moments: Herodotus analyzes Helen of Troy's story.

Masters of Finance: Bismarks quote on civility.

Literature Daily: a passage from Kim by Rudyard Kipling.

Political Journal: Obama's re-election chances, the good and bad.

Today's Posts - 3/7/11

Meant to telephone relatives last night. Got home from church, tired. Watched a little tv and went to bed.

TV Show I've been watching: A-Team, the episode with Robert Vaughn, Nancy Kwan. RV actually got some screen time this time, NK not so much.

Book I've been reading: audio of Champlain

In today’s blogs,

History Moments: Bismark on politeness.

Masters of Finance: Donald Trump on the importance of history.

Literature Daily: a passage from from the Illiad where Agamemnon sent the criers round to call the people in assembly.

Political Journal: Are the hearings on Muslim radicalization bad?

Today's Posts - 3/6/11

Took Kathy out to McDonalds this morning. She's working at Sams Club. Will pick her up and go to church tonight.

TV Show I've been watching: Watched Lois and Clark, an oldy Superman series from about 10 years ago.

Book I've been reading: Bob Hope's book about the Presidents he has known (11 of them!)

In today’s blogs,

History Moments: It is 1880, the elections are over and you conservatives have lost again. What next?

Masters of Finance: Napoleon Hill advises to ally with other people. More


Literature Daily: a passage from 1,001 Nights where the genie tells the fisherman that he must kill him because he has set him free.

Political Journal: Obama once derided G.W. Bush's views on democracy in the Middle East; now events are imposing those views on him. More

Today's Posts - 3/3/11

Talked to Kathy about finances (sigh!)

TV Show I've been watching: Got the latest netflix disk - Alias, season 3.

In today’s blogs,

History Moments: The March History Carnival is up. What's been going on last month in history blogs?

Masters of Finance: Status symbols is a real problem for people today.

Literature Daily: a passage from The Wizard of Oz. Scarecrow decides to ask Oz for some brains.

Political Journal: Is Obama really going to send troops to Libya?

Today's Posts - 3/2/11

Got to pay bills and make a sales call today. Been working on my blogs. Like that Durant series I started on the History Blog.

TV Show I've been watching: Xena, from season 2.

Book I've been reading: Durant's History of Civilization, vol 1 for the blog (see above).

In today’s blogs,

History Moments: Who started the first civilization in the Middle East?

Masters of Finance: How do you tell a slope of a line in a graph - and why is that important?

Literature Daily: a passage from Mark Twain about journals (like blogs) and the trouble of keeping them up.

Political Journal: How insecure is Quaddafi if Libya is having a Civil War?

Today's Posts - 3/1/11

Taking Kathy out shopping today, then to library.

TV Show I've been watching: Happy Days

Book I've been reading: Re-acquainting myself with Durants "Our Oriental Heritage" for the History Blog.

In today’s blogs,

History Moments: Menelaos leaves Egypt one step ahead of the mob - Herodotus.

Masters of Finance: Robert Louis Stevenson, fortune hunter.

Literature Daily: Kim delivers the goods.

Political Journal: Middle East Round Up, country by country from NYT.

Chess Politics: candidate Allen Priest for USCF's Executive Board comments on the financial issues.