Saturday September 27th [1862]There was a bloody battle at Sharpsburg in Maryland on the 17th. We remained upon the field for twenty four hours after the fight and then recrossed to this side of the Potomac. We cannot understand why. [Crossed out: The …
Now this is how you smack down a troll.
Opening Sentences: Great Opening Sentences From Science Fiction
(tags: books sci-fi)
Via his “Yours For Good Fermentables” blog Tom Cizauskas brings word of changes at Old Dominion Brewing:Confirmed by two sources: Scott Zetterstrom, Vice-President of Brewing Operations for Coastal/Dominion Brewing of Annapolis Md/Ashburn, Va. has left…
Here are some photos I took in the last couple of months that never made it into a post. Consider this just a little cleanup.First, eating. My favorite place downtown to get a quick lunch is Eileen’s on Caroline Street. They always have creative sandwi…
Here are some photos I took in the last couple of months that never made it into a post. Consider this just a little cleanup.First, eating. My favorite place downtown to get a quick lunch is Eileen’s on Caroline Street. They always have creative sandwi…
Aliens, like people, would have died out waiting for millions of years until they evolved reproductive organs. Therefore evolution is false, and the aliens among can’t be aliens at all. They are, in fact, Satan’s minions, here to test your faith.
I read it on a conservative web site, so it must be true.
Eric Cantor has become an increasingly popular candidate to be selected as John McCain’s runningmate. First he gets Jack Abramoff to name a sandwich after him, then he got a lobbyist to start and Draft Cantor for VP site, now he’s got Virginia’s favorite bigot to join in the fun too. Fox News (shocker) got […]
He made it about 6 months longer than the doctors originally expected, however the inevitable finally happened and Carnegie-Mellon professor Randy Pausch died from pancreatic cancer at age 47.
I’m not sure if anybody has ever taken the news of impending early death from cancer with as much grace and humor than Randy. I’d like to […]
Tom Murphy at Carteret Mortgage provided some information on his radio show yesterday, that many potential home buyers in the Fredericksburg Real Estate market should find relevant. Potentially, on October 1st, 2008, some programs that essentially still allow homebuyers to buy a home with no-money down will be eliminated. Programs like the Nehemiah Program, Ameri-dream, […]
