New Blog for "Those Midnight Blues"

In case you didn't know, I host a radio show on a local college radio station here in Colchester, WWPV 88.7 FM. My show, "Those Midnight Blues", is a late night Blues show featuring local, regional, national and international Blues music.

I just started a new blog to cover any pertinent news and schedules. I hope you get a chance to listen and don't be afraid to call in.

Holy Smokes?!?! People read my writing?!?

It has been brought to my attention that some people actually read my blogs. I had recently contributed a column to the Saint Michael's College student on-line publication, The Echo. I will post the unedited version to this blog if anyone is interested.

Senate's Report on Pre-War Intelligence Assessments of Iraq

For those of you that know me, you know that I am very adamant about reading the original sources and making my own decisions.

On the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence website, there is the July 7, 2004 committee's Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community Pre-War Intelligence Assessments of Iraq or the much shorter Conclusions Excerpt.

Do your best. Sadly, there are no longer any easy or short answers to problems. The easy problems were solved by the people before us.

Enduring Images Exhibit in Fremont, OH

While I was in Fremont, I had the wonderful opportunity to visit the grounds of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center. The exhibit, "Enduring Images", just became available to the public recently but I was most fortunate to see many of the images prior to opening. My sister-in-law, Holly Elder, contributed her considerable framing expertise to several (maybe all) of the pieces. Her husband, John, and I made the only contribution we could have to such a learned and distinguished endeavor. We loaded up to the pieces into a van and transported them to the Hayes Center. I am reminded of an often paraphrased Marxist tenet, "From each according to their abilities..." (see note 1)

In addition, The Elder Family celebrated the 50th Wedding Anniversary of Steware & JoAnn Elder of Fremont at the Dillon House adjacent to the Presidential Center grounds which was purchased by the Presidential Center in 1962. The restoration of the Dillon House was wonderful and provided a perfect venue for the celebration.

Not only are the grounds of the Presidential Center very pleasant, but the library itself has several informative exhibits as well as "Enduring Images". It will make a good low-key & pleasant family outing.

References :
note 1 (some interesting paraphrasing of this quote including one by Normal Rockwell)
note 2 (interesting computer science application of this tenet)
note 3 (more actual quotes from Karl Marx...lots of them interesting)
note 4 (a generic Karl Marx reference page for the historical minded)

David Brin's Blog

One of my favorite SciFi authors, David Brin has a blog on the same service as I do. He makes some very good comments.

Just returned from Fremont, Ohio

We just returned from Fremont, Ohio where we celebrated the 50th Wedding Anniversary of JoAnn & Stewart Elder. Congratulations!

Yup...Still around...

Yes, I am still around but just can't find the words. Hardly. Actually, truth be told, I have found that Blogger was just too slow to be useful to me for blogging. Given my brief return here at this moment, the speed actually feels tolerable.