The snow has let up a bit, and the temperature rises above freezing during the day. We needed the break to clear the roads, walks, and driveways.

Sitemeter Sez: North Fort Myers, Florida; Dalton, Georgia; Oakville, Ontario, Canada; New York, New York and Wiesbaden, Germany.

ROCK against Reaganomics at: Theater X-Net

Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Ida's Places in Paris -- from my first jet-lagged day by the Seine.
Read more about Ida in Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley

Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
Theater, Art, Flash Gordon, Funky Music and MORE!
NEW --Launching NOW! Outre Space Cinema -- Featuring: 1930's Rocketry, Spitfires of the Spaceways and Cellulose to Celluloid, Flash Gordon in the Saturday Matinees and Sunday Comics!





Thanks to Jim Keefe (Visit his Website) -- the LAST Flash Gordon illustrator of the 20th Century, and Flash's first illustrator of the 21st, for his recommendations -- HERE!

Charity Alert: Keep that Resolution to click on The Hunger Site every day. Also check into Terra Sigilata blog -- donate $$$ to cancer patients just by clicking onto the site.

In The Community: There will be 400 high schoolers visiting the community college this upcoming Tuesday at a College for a Day public-relations event.
All students are FREE this year at the Hockaday Museum of Art, thanks to Pacific Steel & Recycling.
Check out Fall for Glacier too -- a fundraiser for several programs that make Glacier National Park even better!


Happy Birthday Galileo!
If he were alive today, he'd still be a remarkable man -- 'cause he'd be 444 years old. (rimshot)

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

The Bible tells us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go.

Media Watch: MTV's America's Best Dance Crew has been a somewhat-better-than-average competition show. Injuries are making a difference with these untrained but enthusiastic young people. One thing I DIDN'T like was the producers making one of the all-woman crews wear high heels for their number -- took half their vocabulary away just by balancing on those things. They did alright, but it wasn't the least bit fair. The Buckethead clones were awesome, and didn't look like amateurs at all. The roller skater/dancers amazed me too. The street dancers from Boston were treated a touch too harshly, I thought.

Propaganda is flying fast and thick nowadays, with lousy Bu$hCo throwing more than their share. The following video may be SATIRE, but it's a clear and present warning about what we face if we allow the criminals who are running our government to remain in office: