Tuesday Tidbits

This is a picture of the Notre Dame wooded original roof supports.  This was built in the 1100's from trees that had been planted 700 years before.  

That's the kind of stuff fire adores.

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The diminutive Mr. Reich is right, of course.  And more than half of all government programs are socialist in nature, too.  "Socialist" has become ingrained with Russian communism but is not the same.  We are just too often looking for easy reference points.

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I was in the Funbus the other day trying to fiddle with the radio, and air conditioning settings while driving.  It was virtually impossible.  By design?  It is too complex an equation these days (yes, I know the scan button).  Remember when radios were as simple as the Chevy in the above picture.  Not to get all "I had to walk three miles in the snow to school" on you, but not every advance in automobile engineering is good.

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I wonder when a plan becomes a "masterplan?"  Aren't all plans masterplans in their own way?

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And they call it puppy love.

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Hard to believe but tomorrow will be Norah's 8th birthday.

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Mothra hanging on the screen on Monday.

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