Posted on October 28, 2008 by Trip to the Outhouse
Here is a nice piece, done by the students themselves about the starting of a GSA at Pattonville High School in Maryland Heights, Missouri. The ideas are objectively presented and show the need for and steps to take to start a high school GSA. It’s well worth the few minutes time that it will [...]
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Posted on October 26, 2008 by Trip to the Outhouse
I’ve received so many views of my Hamburger Gravy post that I thought I’d try to write a real “how to” explanation for making gravy; I’m not sure that I want to call it a recipe because I’ve never written one down before.
I learned how to make gravy from my mom out on our farm [...]
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Posted on October 21, 2008 by Trip to the Outhouse
(Looking for early voting locations and times in Houston and Harris County? Go here to Harrisvotes.org; for Montgomery County, go here.)
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Posted on October 11, 2008 by Trip to the Outhouse
After all the viciousness that the McCain and Palin have been putting forth in their campaign speeches, finally, but finally, today McCain had to admit that “Obama is a decent man”, only to be booed by many of his supporters for saying that. However, what I liked about it was there was sincerity in his [...]
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Posted on October 10, 2008 by Trip to the Outhouse
From msnbc.com: Hartford, Connecticut–Connecticut’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that same-sex couples have the right to marry, making that state the third behind Massachusetts and California . . . .
The divided court ruled 4-3 that gay and lesbian couples cannot be denied the freedom to marry under the state constitution, and Connecticut’s civil unions [...]
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Posted on October 5, 2008 by Trip to the Outhouse
I went to college in the middle of the Vietnam War years. Though I’d had my VW painted purple and maybe even had a peace sticker on the back window, I was hardly a hippie or a protester. Right at the time I started college, my brother had just come back from Vietnam and gotten [...]
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