Senior Adult Spelling Bee
...Yes, I have entered now that I have reached the Senior Adult age for the local Spelling Bee. If I qualify to attend the Oklahoma Senior Adult Spelling Bee, I will post that later.
...The idea of preparation and attendance at such a competition is agathokakological at best. Today, I learned a great Hawaiian word:
humuhumunukunukuapuaa and added to my growing list of words to know.
...Writing the words is a snap, but orally spelling them stretches all the powers of my mind to see the word in my mind and spell it letter for letter without losing the image of the word I am supposed to be spelling. I have much greater respect for those middle school spellers in the National Scripps Howard Spelling Bee!
...One advantage may be the physical exercise that I am getting from constantly lifting and opening an unabridged dictionary!
...Who knew that so many words have been added to our American language from so many other countries and languages.

Bones of Jesus in ossuary?
...The names inscribed are common forms of the time, but the location of the ossuary and the fact that it might be from a middle-class family does not lend any credence to the finder's claims.
...the fact that the finder and the ultimate filmmaker were paid 3.5 million dollars by Discovery Channel puts it into perspective. There was no intent to just make the facts known.
...Archaeologists dispute the finder's claims from a scientific viewpoint.
...The stretch of logic to make the claim that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene and had a child flies in the face of the excellent historical records of that time and the Biblical record as well. This is more of the DaVinci Code drivel.