Archive for the ‘Life’ Category
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
Yesterday I was contacted by a reporter from the Martinsville Bulletin. I was told that unnamed officials were upset with my entries in the most recent Caption Contest, especially given that I work in economic development. I explained the context of the Caption Contest to the reporter and apologized several times. As [...]
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Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006
Today I received a call indicating that unnamed officials of Martinsville-Henry County are upset by my entries in the most recent Caption Contest.
I can understand how my entries might have been seen as critical of the community, but my only intent was humor. I am very sorry for offending people whose work [...]
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Friday, April 28th, 2006
Governor Kaine denied clemency to convicted murderer Dexter Lee Vinson yesterday and Vinson was executed last night.
The death penalty divides people in far different ways than party affiliation. Conservative Shaun Kenney was passionate in opposing Vinson's execution. A few comments on Shaun's site were snarky references to Kaine's record on keeping campaign [...]
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Sunday, April 23rd, 2006
I have been thinking about writing something on human connectivity, or the lack thereof, in my little Chesterfield County community. Walter Kirn, subbing for Andrew Sullivan, comes very close to my feelings as he reacts to an enounter in a bar.
My piece may still get written, because this kind of thing doesn't just happen [...]
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Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
First, Muslims weren't hassled at a NASCAR race. Now, the children of gay couples have been welcomed to the Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn, with only six lonely protesters attempting to spoil the fun.
Why are Americans not living up to stereotypes?
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Saturday, April 15th, 2006
"You have a message on the answering machine. Who's Floyd Brown?" asked my wife.
I smiled. It had been 35 years, but I knew in an instant who Floyd Brown was. I suspected that I also knew why, after all these years, he was calling.
For three solid years, 1968-1970, Floyd Brown had been [...]
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Saturday, April 8th, 2006
Tonight my youngest daughter is on her first babysitting job.
It's just across the street. Her "clients" are only having dinner at a restaurant one mile away. Still, they've entrusted their two children to my daughter, who's only 11.
She's prepared well, having taken the two day Red Cross babysitting certification course and spent [...]
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Thursday, March 30th, 2006
Randal McCloy, Jr., the sole survivor of the Sago mine disaster, is on his way home and is speaking to the press.
Last night, when the NBC Nightly News was about to show a short clip of an interview with Mr. McCloy broadcast today, I braced myself. What I saw, though, seemed nothing short [...]
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Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006
I enjoyed this editorial cartoon.
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Sunday, March 19th, 2006
Over at Brown Hound, John has some thoughts on what he calls the "Roe effect," with an instructive example from Tidewater.
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Friday, March 3rd, 2006
Norm Leahy, the most unlikely Sorensen Institute candidate since anarchists were banned, has departed for his first weekend of re-education camp training.
How long will Norm last? Make your predictions in the comments. Void where prohibited. No fair entering if you know Sorensen's refund policy.
I say Norm, my favorite "reliably right-wing, free-lunch blogger," [...]
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Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
We've had a lively discussion on the Maymont bear biting saga over the past few days. In the latest development, the parent of the child who was bitten has made herself available to the media. Snoopy at River City Rapids has a great round-up post on this new twist that links Norm Leahy's [...]
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Monday, February 27th, 2006
One of those grim searches that every parent fears is taking place in my neighborhood right now. The brother of one of the missing boys is in my daughter's class.
Before, I always watched these sad events from afar with a lump in my throat. That same lump is there, but it's more intense [...]
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Friday, February 24th, 2006
This is a sad story of the impact a lack of parental supervison of a pre-schooler can have on an entire region. Maymont will never be the same place to visit.
Thank God the child was not seriously hurt.
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Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
I almost missed it, but Garren Shipley had this interesting piece in the NV Daily:
When the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether a federal ban on the procedure often called partial-birth abortion is legal, Virginia will be watching closely.
The high court may be deciding if Virginia’s law is constitutional at the same time.
Attorney General Bob McDonnell [...]
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Thursday, February 16th, 2006
Commonwealth Conservative congratulations to Del. Vincent Callahan and his wife, Yvonne Weight, married yesterday in the chambers of the Virginia Supreme Court.
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Monday, February 6th, 2006
Daily Press columnist Tamara Dietrich's little angel got a 93 on a test--in that school district, a 93 is a "B." In some other districts, it would have been an "A."
There is a crisis in Virginia--the Commonwealth has no uniform, standardized grading scale! Dietrich goes ballistic: Our lawmakers in Richmond could standardize grades [...]
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