"This captures what I most admire about Nelson Mandela. He very much had a choice and he went with the much more difficult one. Consider the violent redistribution of land from white to…"

"Back in the days when computers were still new to most people, I was the sole volunteer technical support provider for a small computer lab on campus. My method: users filled out trouble tickets and…"

"People who knew him were interviewed on CNN today and said that he actually felt a lot of hatred and resentment toward those who had taken away so much of his life and caused so much harm to the…"

"We'd probably all be under the thumb of Islam, which was the primary repository of science and technology in those times. In the West, anyway."

"Three times? I was so young the first time that I hardly remember it. The second time I MIGHT have been 9, at most. The third time, maybe 15? Right after I met my first husband, anyway. After that, I…"

"Kitty!!!  That one looks like one of mine.  Magurk has the same mushroom looking nose spot.  Way too cute.  =)"

"My folks are incorrigible, Bob. Just like you. Just like Rush Limbaugh. Where dogma is concerned-- religious or ideological-- they are impervious to reason. They don't think. They rearrange…"