Lefty

aren't grandchildren wonderful?

Healthcare

Edwards on healthcare

NBA

Although I was at geography camp last week, we did get to watch the Finals:

SPURS WIN!!!!!!!!

Air Conditioning

It's 8:19 in the evening, and the thermometer on the back porch says its 85F in the shade. The house must be 95+, because its awfully hot in here. The hubby was trimming the bushes out back and inadvertently clipped the Puron line. The landlord had the line fixed right away, but apparently you can't buy Puron on Saturday in Dallas, because we have to wait 'til Monday.
Years ago we lived in San Marcos, and then in Austin, all with no A/C, but now that I am old I really like it. The 20 years we spent in West Texas we had a swamp cooler, which was cheap and worked well enough most of the time.
Its easy to see why no one lived in Houston, or anywhere along the Gulf Coast, until Mr Carrier perfected his indoor 'air conditioner' in 1928.
I am leaving tomorrow, but hubby will have to suffer one more day. We have a really small window unit that we used for the garage apartment in W Tx, and have installed it in the living room, but the rest of the house is sweltering. The living room is tolerable. I'm going back in there now.

Hometown Baghdad

Hometown Baghdad
An ongoing documentary web series following the lives of a few Iraqi 20-somethings trying to survive in Baghdad.

The everyday life of the Iraqi citizen has been the great untold story of the Iraq war.

John Edwards for President

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Geography Camp

Sunday is the start of the geography camp at TxSU-SM. They do this every year - take a group of high school students (9th/10th graders) and spend a week with them, showing them college life and career possibilities. 2 years ago I was one of the teacher-leaders; this year I am taking 3 kids. The Geography Summer Academy for Minority Scholars (GeoSAMS) was originally funded (in 2002) by a grant from the National Geographic Society for the purpose of increasing the presence of people from underrepresented minority groups in the discipline of geography. It is now called the Summer Academy, and its lots of fun.
We are going to Bracken Cave, Hornsby Bend, Pedernales Falls, and Enchanted Rock, as well as learning about geocaching, and floating the San Marcos River. My favorite day trip will be the one to the 'new' gorge at Canyon lake, created in 2002 when the spillway overflowed.
It should be great fun.

Worst Town Names

The 22 Worst Place Names in the World

READ THE ARTICLE AT DRIVL.COM

The Debate

Courtesy of Chris Dodd

Basketball

Billy Gillespie = 2%er