Personal ponderings from a natural night-owl!

Archive for October, 2007

A Record Breaking Day

Well, folks – thanks to YOU readers (and a comment I posted in response to Naverette’s CNN commentary yesterday), Midnight Musings received a record one-day number of hits yesterday: 264! We also reached two other milestones yesterday: number 5 on the “Fastest Growing WordPress Blogs” list and 1,000 total hits on the blog since I [...]

Out of the Ashes

I get most of my news aurally from NPR and when the kids are not home, visually from CNN.com, so I am just now watching video of people in California returning to the ash piles that were their houses. People had to evacuate quickly, and their goal was to get themselves and their most precious [...]

Neither Judge nor Jury

Obviously, the Dumbledore revelation has the world plugging its ears and shouting at the top of its lungs – again (still?) – about the “rightness” or “wrongness” of homosexuality. It is interesting and sad to me that so many religious people who have strong opinions on this issue (either way) have not taken the time [...]

Dumbledore: Does it Matter?

In the most earth-shattering Harry Potter news since book 7 was released this past July, author J.K. Rowling revealed at a reading at Carnegie Hall last night that she “always thought of Dumbledore as gay.” As a devoted Harry Potter fan (albeit a relative Johnny-come-lately since I didn’t catch on to the pheonomenon until 2002, [...]

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