| August 2006 |
- 1st
- 10:08 am: Birthday Today: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
10:17 am: Birthday Today: Herman Melville
10:49 am: Birthday Today: Lisa Breitsman
03:27 pm: A letter I sent to the author of the "lunar drought" article.
03:29 pm: I heard from Professor Louis Thompson, today.
03:43 pm: Opinion piece in today's Register
- 2nd
- 10:36 am: Birthdays Tomorrow: John T. Scopes, etc.
10:40 am: The Battle Of Cannae: August 2, 216 B.C. - 2 comments
10:43 am: A virtue, carried to extremes, can be a deadly mistake. - 1 comment
11:38 am: An editorial from today's Register
11:43 am: The Spitefulness Of Religious Fundamentalists
12:16 pm: Albrecht Dürer, Artist and Mathematician
12:26 pm: Birthdays This Month
03:45 pm: I saw Kim Leff, yesterday.
- 3rd
- 10:58 am: Re: My Register article, July 29
04:03 pm: A good article by Harry Brod, a UNI professor of philosophy
04:08 pm: Danielle Giardino, who works in the Cedar Falls Fareway store
04:19 pm: Lindsey, who works in the Mohair Pear
04:26 pm: Good Letters In Today's Register
04:31 pm: Vietnam déjà vu
04:31 pm: Recent Comments In Dan Lyons' Blog
- 4th
- 09:31 am: Birthday Tomorrow: Guy De Maupassant
09:32 am: Birthday Tomorrow: Niels Abel, the Mathematician
10:14 am: Birthday Today: The poet Shelley
10:38 am: More comments by Dan Lyons, on his blog
11:51 am: Good Editorial in Today's Register
02:36 pm: An article in tonight's Courier
02:42 pm: Sam Nodarse, a UNI Emeritus Professor of Spanish
- 5th
- 11:20 am: Science News: Predators target the less-intelligent.
11:53 am: Cubans Love America, but not our government's occupation, like in Iraq.
11:49 pm: An article in today's Cedar Rapids Gazette
- 6th
- 11:37 am: Saint Enora
11:39 am: One small step for science, one giant leap for destruction.
05:10 pm: People's opinions are based on emotions, rather than on logic. - 1 comment
05:43 pm: Are Mensans any more rational than the general public?
- 8th
- 03:45 pm: Technetium, the Mazurs and the Mazurka
03:58 pm: David Mazur
04:13 pm: A good letter in tonight's "Courier"
04:18 pm: I'm going to my birthday party at the Darland Farm, this evening. - 2 comments
- 9th
- 03:39 pm: My birthday party, yesterday evening, and a Luther College connection.
03:40 pm: People I met at "Cups of Joe," recently
04:21 pm: David Costello, a peace activist in Des Moines
08:34 pm: Comments about the Lieberman defeat.
08:38 pm: Bush vs. the real world (sent by Nic Roberts)
- 10th
- 10:02 am: A belated birthday greeting
11:00 am: Birthdays Yesterday: Bob Birch and Charles Fort.
11:13 am: 9-11 Conspiracy Theories
11:30 am: Was 9/11 an "inside job"?
11:54 am: Humbug Day
03:06 pm: Idiot stuff: Mass Murder As Entertainment. - 1 comment
- 11th
- 03:57 pm: The long struggle of a teacher named John W. Wagner
- 12th
- 11:17 am: Letters about Cuba in today's Register. - 1 comment
11:20 am: Letters about the public's incorrigible stupidity, in today's "Register."
02:50 pm: Tesla Authority John Wagner will visit Columbia University October 2.
- 13th
- 03:32 pm: Ken Hoy sends Greetings from Inchon, South Korea.
03:58 pm: US will spend less money on investigating veterans' war injuries.
03:59 pm: A US war crime in Iraq: Causing horrible injuries, by spreading around depleted uranium rubbish.
04:34 pm: Veterans' injuries from depleted uranium
05:00 pm: A British example of the "free press" that we don't have, here in the USA.
05:20 pm: Re: A COVER STORY from "Frontline," India's national magazine.
10:42 pm: Dan Lyons says the Lebanon truce is a farce.
11:08 pm: Courier columnist Charlotte Eby mentioned my blog and Dan's over a year ago.
- 14th
- 12:39 am: Friends, Romans, Countrymen: Lend me your ears!
12:55 am: Ach, du lieber Lieberman! - 1 comment
12:24 pm: D.C. out of touch with voters.
03:50 pm: Lamont Cranston as "The Shadow"
- 15th
- 11:10 am: Frank Cordaro will be released from prison August 23.
11:18 am: So-called "Gypsies." - 6 comments
11:42 am: Birthday today: Charles Godfrey Leland, Born August 15, 1824 - 1 comment
12:01 pm: An interesting article from today's Los Angeles Times
- 16th
- 12:49 pm: A good letter in today's "Register." - 3 comments
12:52 pm: Birthdays Today: Melissa and Melanie Wagner
12:59 pm: Churches dedicated to St. Michael.
03:58 pm: St. Michael's Mount and Mont.-St. Michel
- 17th
- 12:33 pm: Dawn Martin's letter in today's "Courier"
12:49 pm: Petrov is a good role model, unlike many US presidents.
03:44 pm: Ronald Reagan, the phony cowboy actor, versus a REAL HERO.
03:54 pm: BIRTHDAYS TODAY
- 18th
- 12:16 pm: Correspondence with John Wagner and with Harry Rapelje - 1 comment
03:57 pm: Dan Lyons said this, on his blog, yesterday.
04:06 pm: Jerusalem Post Article: "Israel Planned To Destroy Lebanon"
09:05 pm: Comments of Hari Shankar, about Gypsies in India. - 3 comments
09:27 pm: A review of a just-published book, about that Jordan case.
- 19th
- 10:44 am: John Mark Karr's confession helps the Republicans.
11:01 am: Letters in today's "Register."
04:11 pm: Birthday Today: Orville Wright, Airplane Inventor
- 20th
- 02:41 pm: Letters in today's "Courier." - 2 comments
- 21st
- 11:45 am: Los Angeles Times article, about the Army's cover-up of US war crimes in Viet Nam.
11:55 am: Tom Englehardt's Column, "7 Facts Making Sense of Our Iraqi Disaster."
- 22nd
- 10:06 am: Callie Angoff and Sommer Darland
10:17 am: A book, written in English, does better in a Portuguese translation.
10:29 am: (no subject)
11:17 am: Birthday Today: The composer Claude Debussy.
11:22 am: Birthday Today: UNI Alumnus Joe Cacciatore.
11:35 am: Val and Jes Noble, identical twins.
- 23rd
- 12:02 pm: The Thymograph - 10 comments
12:03 pm: Grigory Perelman, a strange mathematical genius.
05:46 pm: Birthday Today: Georges Cuvier
06:05 pm: Editorial in today's Register - 1 comment
- 24th
- 01:53 pm: A column in today's "Register." - 1 comment
- 25th
- 10:20 am: Percival Lowell's quest for scientific knowledge. - 1 comment
10:21 am: "PLUTO," meaning "wealth" and also "death."
- 26th
- 09:13 am: Birthday Yesterday: Mad King Ludwig.
09:15 am: An article about the latest strange mathematical genius.
09:58 am: Birthday Yesterday: Walt Kelly, who drew the "Pogo" comic strip.
03:29 pm: Birthday Today: Lee De Forest - 1 comment
- 27th
- 06:27 pm: The Bear Went Over The Mountain - 1 comment
07:08 pm: My letter in today's "Courier."
07:15 pm: Dick Doak's tribute to the Scots-Irish
- 28th
- 09:34 am: Re: Byron Backus' comments about the relationship of Celts to Basques.
04:43 pm: Birthday Today: William R. Corliss
- 29th
- 10:59 am: Birthday Today: The engineer Charles F. Kettering.
11:03 am: An e-mail that I sent to Joe Cacciatore yesterday, his reply, and a reply I sent to him, today.
- 30th
- 12:19 pm: Birthday Today: Mary Shelley, who invented Frankenstein.
12:39 pm: Birthday Today: Ernest Rutherford
03:18 pm: Libertarian essays from Lew Rockwell.com, sent by Nic Roberts. - 1 comment
03:45 pm: Letter in today's Courier, by Richard Nock.
04:22 pm: Sherm McNeal, former Manager of Stebs, said this:
- 31st
- 11:52 am: "Islamic fascism"??
03:52 pm: My comments about the editorial.
04:06 pm: An editorial in today's Courier.
04:39 pm: In ancient Greek, a "mantis" is a prophet.
04:55 pm: Mantis
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