Territorial Bloggings

A Cogent Mélange of Lutheran & Pop-Culture Punditry
May 5, 2008

Rank politics

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : general

In order to get something other than realitytv/pop-culture posted, I’ll stoop to writing about rank politics. Eeew…
Living in Indiana, I didn’t think that our little primary would amount to much; however, it turns out that we’ll actually matter, given the fratricide that’s taking place in the Democratic Party these days. Yay! (both for our primary [...]


April 29, 2008

Percival Lowell & David Strauss

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : general

Go read The Man Who Invented Mars.
I blog about this for two simple reasons: First, out of respect for Professor David Strauss. I took a class (American History II) from him at Kalamazoo College back in (IIRC) Spring Quarter 1989. He wasn’t my advisor as a History major (my guy was Dr. David Barclay), [...]


April 13, 2008

New toys are always fun

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : general

Getting a new toy is always fun, even if the reason for getting it isn’t the best.
Case in point: I just got a nifty new treadmill. (yes, dear, I know, we got it - the allowances I have to make now that I know the wife is reading my blog…) It’s really very cool [...]


March 10, 2008

History vs. Nostalgia

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : general

In the interest of having a non-AI posting, here are some not-quite-random musings based on something that occurred to me recently…
In the course of cleaning my office area in a sub-basement of the palatial Schloß T.B., I realized that I’ve got a whole bunch of stuff. One might even say, you know, crap. And it [...]