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Writing Commandments Under the Influence that is. That’s the claim of Israeli researcher Benny Shanon.

High on Mou…

Power outages have been reported in much of the state of Florida this afternoon. So far, the lights are still on here…

There is nothing like a good headline to make you click over to the story. Here’s one:

DNA leads police to salami-…

You don’t see many traffic alerts here at bRight & Early. OK, you’ve never seen a traffic update at bRight & Early. B…

Neil Diamond is 67 today. Here’s one of my favorite Neil Diamond songs — America

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For 49 years I was never called upon to participate in the civic activity of jury duty. Now at 52 I am about to parti…

You have probably sat in a dark house before, after a power outage, when the lights would flicker on for a few seconds and then go back out again. I remember thinking in those instances, “well they’re doing something.”
That’s sort of what it feels like with TTLB over the past week or so. For the [...]

It’s great when you can read stories with a good ending: Ranger: We have our missing Boy Scout
Park rangers escorted a weak and dehydrated 12-year-old Boy Scout out of the rugged North Carolina mountains on Tuesday, four days after he wandered away from his troop’s camp site.
Michael Auberry was brought the final distance by SUV, [...]

It’s an interesting way to call attention to their financial clout, but where do they put the change?

Friends from college tell the story of a trip they took through the Arizona desert. I understand that there are some pretty large jack rabbits in that part of the country.
They had been riding for hours, it was night, they were tired, and, well, they were college guys.
As they were getting sleepier the occasional [...]

Good news for Senator Johnson and his family.
Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson remained in critical condition but was described as recovering and holding his wife’s hand Thursday after emergency overnight surgery to repair bleeding inside his brain.
Much of the coverage on this has been shameful. Gaius at Blue Crab Boulevard put it very well.
I have refrained [...]

Happy 1st Blogiversary toPublic Figures Beware
I’ll be doing some more behind the scene stuff today. I’m still working on some things for the Blogiversary Database. There are now 165 blogs, 151 confirmed, with 68 blogs (41.21%) displaying the code on their site. Suggestions are always welcome. Anyone want to try your hand at creating some [...]