When the wind winds from the west to the east, you could at least do your best to be a good sport and curl up with a story and make some hot chocolate and watch a movie or something. You could water the plants or feed the cats or try to count the pigeons.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
Moon at apogee. Renaissance man Michelangelo born, 1475.

– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
“Now are the winds about us in their glee / Tossing the slender tree.”
– WIlliam Gilmore Simms

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Just grit your teeth and answer the question.

I’ve kind of worked myself into a conversational corner, in part, with this thesis project. There’s no incentive to share my research with people who aren’t fixated on serial killers (only a few of you) or lumberjacks (only very few of you).

I’ve kind of worked myself into a conversational corner, in part, with this thesis project. There’s no incentive to share my research with people who aren’t fixated on serial killers (only a few of you) or lumberjacks (only very few of you).

More news from Flint:

The Rock Under Attack Again.

She’s Ours.

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Last July in trying to make these daily posts manageable I stopped writing about my day-to-day life here, but I’ve found that I haven’t started writing about it anywhere else. That, and the daily posts are so spare now, there isn’t an urgent recent to post them.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
Ember Day. Puerto Rico became U.S. territory, 1917.

– COUNTRY OF THE WEEK –
Anguilla.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What’s your price?

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– ALMANAC SAYS –
Congress authorized first U.S. Census, 1790.

– LINK OF THE WEEK –
The Emo Scourge.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What frightens you in a book?

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Iraq War¹
Also known as: Operation Iraqi Freedom
Date: 2003
From: Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy.

On September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda terrorists struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In its wake President George W. Bush proclaimed a global war against terrorists and those who aided and abetted them.