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Posted by Disarranging Mine 6 days 13 hours ago.
UPDATED 8:23 P.M.: Sirens still going. Lights flickering. Rolling thunder directly overhead. We rarely get rolling thunder around here. Usually, it's a sharp crack.And then the tornado, or the outer parts of it, went over our house taking the electricity ...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 1 month ago.
How can it be that so-called conservatives, when presented with an opportunity to show their conservative backbone, crumple and grab the cash, anywaySJ-R: Shimkus, Schock defend 'no' votes on earmarksRepublican U.S. Reps. Aaron Schock and John Shimkus we...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 1 month ago.
From Publishers Weekly: "The 1887 massacre of more than 30 Chinese gold miners in a remote area of the Idaho territory provides the real-life foundation for this engrossing look at racial prejudice and the settling of the West, the first novel from Hand...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 1 month ago.
Sometimes you just need a reminder. This was not meant to be a briefcase, but that's what I use it for.
Posted by Disarranging Mine 1 month ago.
Downtown Springfield. Facing north.And facing south and west.Springfield, Illinois. It ain't Nutbush.Both photos shot this afternoon by Laura Carnes.
Posted by Disarranging Mine 2 months ago.
The SJ-R ran an AP story today on our Supermax prison in Tamms, Illinois.Tamms supermax: Expensive, but is it necessaryFor almost 12 years, Illinois taxpayers have paid one of the highest per-inmate costs in the country to house what the Department of Co...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 2 months ago.
'Cause that zero is too cold for me, Brrr. (Best afro!)In other news, today was a great numeric palindrome: 20100102Happy Perihelion Day, everybody.
Posted by Disarranging Mine 2 months ago.
Thanks to Laura for sending this Christmas morning shot of Sangchris Lake.Sangchris Lake is a 3,022-acre (12.2 km²) reservoir located in Christian and Sangamon Counties, Illinois. It was created in 1964 by damming Clear Creek, a tributary of the South ...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 3 months ago.
Never let your feet touch the ground within x number of feet (as far as you can jump or fly) around the bed because you never know what lurks beneath. Yeah, I know it's a sofa, but whatever.Some months ago my computer suffered the unfortunate consequence...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 3 months ago.
Today's question of the day at the SJ-R's Boiler Room blog:Did Illinois lawmakers do the right thing by legalizing video gambling in bars and other non-casino locationsAs one can tell, Illinois has now legalized video gambling at places other than casino...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 3 months ago.
1. As someone who is fluent in language arts of typo and poor grammar, I try never to be grammar police. But, I have to say it: Please stop saying UPMOST when you mean utmost.2. No one ever said the road to redemption would be smooth.3. I can't stop thi...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 3 months ago.
Too soon. It seems like summer just left us. And now this.
Posted by Disarranging Mine 3 months ago.
Taken at Pearl Harbor, circa 1930, when my dad's brother was there. I never knew Burrhead, but he was a handsome man.
Posted by Disarranging Mine 3 months ago.
There's a Springfield twitterer, whom I don't follow and doesn't follow me, but is a mutual follower with some twits I follow and who follow me, that I've come to figure out is two degrees of separation from me. This would be by virtue of her job and my ...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 3 months ago.
Everybody's talking about the new 49 page report by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Tora Bora Revisited: How we failed to get Bin Laden and Why It Matters Today) on the eve of President Obama's decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan.Bin Laden...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 3 months ago.
The man who killed 13 and wounded 30 others at Fort Hood on November 5, 2009, Maj. Nidal Hasan, would have been on his way to Afghanistan tomorrow morning.He was born and raised and educated on American soil. He served in the U.S. Army for what... over 2...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 3 months ago.
1. As someone whose daytime reality doesn't include daytime TV, Oprah Winfrey is barely a blip on my radar screen; I loved her in The Color Purple; I hope she is happy.2. If anyone reading this does not yet have Google Voice, and wants it, let me know. ...
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