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Instead of reading this blog, go and read about events in Libya.After many years of brutal dictatorship, it seems hopeful that Muammar el-Qaddafi (Above) is on the way out.Though, as I write this post, the battle is not yet over.Here is live blogging of events in Libya from the BBC.The excellent Global Voices has reports from Libyan bloggers and a live Twitter feed from Libya.Global Voices has reports from people all over the world who are working for...

I made a small donation this morning to Oxfam for famine relief assistance in Somalia and East Africa.Here are some facts on this disaster as it relates to Somalia from the New York Times---"The Shabab Islamist insurgent group, which controls much of southern Somalia, is blocking starving people from fleeing the country and setting up a cantonment camp where it is imprisoning displaced people who were trying to escape Shabab territory.The group is widely blamed for causing a...

Good evening everyone, it has been awhile, but I thought I would leave the debt ceiling debate alone for a second and focus more on a different issue. As most people know, I am currently out of public education and right now I have little desire to get back in. I am working as a mental health professional. Where I work is not really important and will be kept out because of confidentially. Also, it...

Folk etymology is the sound, spelling and meaning of a word which is changed by the influences of cultures.(Language in the making: a word study, By Wilhelmina M. Thomas)I remember having discussions with my stepdad years ago about some of the "funny" words he would use. He would occasionally tell me to put something on the drainboard for him. I came to learn that this meant the kitchen countertop. We had interesting discussions about the icebox in his house growing...

From dictionary.com: -noun 1. the quality of being just; righteousness, equitableness, or moral rightness: to uphold the justice of a cause. 2. rightfulness or lawfulness, as of a claim or title; justness of ground or reason: to complain with justice. 3. the moral principle determining just conduct.   So how did it seemingly go so wrong yesterday in the Casey Anthony trial?   We may never know because we weren't in the jury deliberations, or we'll at...

The Fourth of July will be here soon.(Above--Black Americans observing the Fourth in 1939 in St. Helena Island, South Carolina.)What books would be helpful to learn more about the American Revolution and about America?As I've said before, I don't believe the Revolution was a liberal or conservative event in the sense we think about such things today.Some of the Founding Fathers were religious. Others were not.  The Revolution had some aspects of a tax revolt. But who...

(Blogger's Note---This is a post I run each year. It merits another go-round because the places I list here are good places to go.)Where should you and your family take a summer vacation this year? Where should you go by yourself or with that someone special for an excellent summer trip?The answer is clear enough.Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Galveston, Texas are the places to go.I have visited all these cities in the summer and I can...

Here are excerpts from an obituary that recently appeared in The Cincinnati Enquirer for Frank Williams Sr.---"At the funeral service this afternoon for Frank Williams Sr., (Above) the eulogy will take mourners back to the 1940s and '50s, when Mr. Williams was a Cincinnati boxer. "The minister's going to say he fought the good fight," said Williams' daughter, Donna Wells of Bond Hill. "God had made my daddy a fighter and he fought it 'til the end." He...

For those of you that did not watch Friends (I was only an occasional viewer), there was an episode where Ross and Rachel were allowed to pick five people with whom they could sleep with where it would not be considered cheating. Naturally, given recent conversations this will considered for entertainment purposes only. Obviously, I want both sides to participate in this one. My votes later............

I hate to mention his name, so I won't. However, recent events and the coverage of those events has caused me to step back for a second. I'm hoping the rest of the country will join me, but I'll settle for the regular folks that frequent TDH. I know this seems silly, but we will primarily be asking two questions today. First, we will look at the nature of cheating and second we will look...