DEAR CAROLYN: This year I will be spending all of my vacation time (and money) on traveling for or with my boyfriend’s family. I understand that I do this voluntarily, but in a very real sense it is also somewhat compulsory because that’s what couples do, and because his mother says, “You will be joining us for Christmas, right?” So my boyfriend and I talked about taking a brief, private trip for New Year’s after being with his family for a week.
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Carolyn Hax: Time to get out from under this guy’s thumb
Mike Munson, right, points out details of the Central Library’s facade during a Downtown Partnership tour. On a downtown walking tour recently, guide Mike Munson pointed out the huge terra cotta entry at the Citizen Hotel and the striking glaze on the building’s facing tile. Later he pointed out the massive terra-cotta columns along the Senator Hotel’s 165-foot-long portico
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Downtown tours reveal city’s colorful face
By now you’ve probably heard of the pretty big FAIL that happened around 7pm this evening (perfect timing)…those of you following on Twitter would have received some updates as I learned of them while I was out and about.Readers also wrote in with firsthand accounts, such as this one from Warren about an hour or so ago:7:15 pm Here I stand on the N in the subway stuck between Van Ness station and Church for the 15th minute. The train operator says there’s a problem up ahead and crews are on th
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Yes, that was an EPIC MUNI FAIL, In Case You Were Wondering…
Something occurred to me in the middle of the Pride Parade in Chicago this weekend. These sort of events are becoming so mainstream as to no longer be able to shock and awe the masses. Of course, the odd rightwinger or Bible-thumping preacher would be incensed by the sight of even one handsome bare-chested boy on a float, but the culture has moved past that I think. As we walked down Halstead after the parade, I was struck by the fact that I’d seen not a single protestor. I’m sure that some
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YOU Are The One We’ve Been Waiting For
Twin City Times- Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 Mayor’s Corner #9 3 The place on last Saturday was the Edward Little Gymnasium where family, friends and supporters of the U.S. Army Reserve’s 619th Transportation Company, one of four companies of the 719th Transportation Battalion, was preparing for their deployment to Iraq. The gymnasium’s grand stand was filled to capacity. There were several groups showing their support, from the Red Cross, to the Auburn & State Police, Auburn and Mec
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Mayor’s Corner: Emotional goodbye to the Army Reserve 619th Trans. Co.
To continue the theme that we began yesterday on what it will take for Memphis to recruit the kind of candidate that can become a great mayor, here’s the abbreviated advice from one of our favorites, Denver’s John Hickenlooper: LESSONS FROM A BREWPUB: The John Hickenlooper Guide To Civic Success We started our Profiles in Leadership: America’s Great Mayors series to answer a simple question: what does a great mayor look like? We weren’t expecting to find out that, sometimes, a great mayor lo
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Denver Brewpub Advice For The Next Memphis Mayor
The North and East of the island of Sri Lanka should first be subjected to archaeological investigation to prove the lands Sinhala ownership, before its resettlement, is the demand of the National Front of Buddhist monks of Sri Lanka, reported Virakesari a few days ago. If archaeology has any say, the entire island having microlithic sites of prehistoric period has to be resettled by Veddas, and …
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Sri Lanka: Ploy of Buddhism in nullifying Tamil nationalism (TamilNet)
This from CBS News no less: The Environmental Protection Agency may have suppressed an internal report that was skeptical of claims about global warming, including whether carbon dioxide must be strictly regulated by the federal government, according to a series of newly disclosed e-mail messages. Less than two weeks before the agency formally submitted its pro-regulation recommendation to the White House, an EPA center director quashed a 98-page report that warned against making hasty “decisio
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Settled scientific suppression
FIRST READING: Genesis 19 : 15 – 29 5 When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city.” 16 But he lingered; so the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the LORD being merciful to him, and they brought him forth and set him outside the city. 17 And when they had brought them forth, they said, “Flee for your life; do
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Mass Readings For Tuesday 06/30/2009
From the Pope’s words today: “Vatican City (AsiaNews) – With “great emotion” Benedict XVI announced that a recent scientific probe confirmed what Catholic tradition has always held, namely that the body of the Apostle Paul is located under the papal altar in the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls. The announcement was made today in the basilica itself during the homily of the First Vespers of the Feast Day of Saints Peter and Paul, which brings the Pauline Year to a close, a year that was
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Bones Under Altar in Rome’s Church of St. Paul