Of course I'm not active here with this blog, but do have a couple changes in contact info. My primary phone number is my cellphone, where I receive calls and also texts: 214 519 4822. An older number 214 339 3237 is no longer good. My website is at www.michaelpennsmith.com.

Hi There! I've MOVED, to www.michaelpennsmith.photoshelter.com. See you there--Michael Penn Smith.

Watch out for the coming arms race of corporate special interests buying politicians.

Saw Avatar in 3D yesterday--really enjoyed it. Best western in a long time, and the Indians won.

Next week I'm thinking the old Favre loses against the new favre.

Tough game for Texas--but they fought amazingly close toward the end.

I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
--Sir Isaac Newton