No, thank you
If a Hawai’i resident wants to watch Saturday’s football game between the University of Alabama and UH, it will cost $60. Sixty dollars. For a football game. On television.
Archive of entries posted on August 2006
Rummy rebutted
My goodness. Keith Olbermann got good and ticked off at Rummy’s remarks to the American Legion. Mr. Rumsfeld?s remarkable speech to the American Legion yesterday demands the deep analysis?and the sober contemplation?of every American. For it did not merely serve to impugn the morality or intelligence — indeed, the loyalty — of the majority of …
YouTube mania
I’m apparently very late to this phenomenon, but as a former guitarist, I really admire somebody who can play this well. The piece that funtwo played with mounting dexterity was an exceedingly difficult rock arrangement of Pachelbel?s Canon, the composition from the turn of the 18th century known for its solemn chord progressions and its …
Munich this ain’t
Dear me. Apparently Rummy thinks I’m an appeaser, all because I think his policies are and have been poorly thought out, miserably executed, and have had the opposite effect to that which was planned. Rumsfeld spoke to the American Legion as part of a coordinated White House strategy, in advance of the fifth anniversary of …
Conclusions jump on conclusion-jumpers
Hello, CNN, MSNBC, FoxNews? With the news that John Mark Karr’s DNA doesn’t match that found at the Jon Benet Ramsey crime scene and that the charges have been dropped, would you care to ask yourselves some soul-searching questions, like “Why did we blow this up into a two-week media frenzy with no hard evidence?” …
One year later
9th ward 29 Originally uploaded by 1115. This photo of a damaged building in the Lower 9th Ward was taken two days ago. America is the richest country in the world, and our government has let this situation fester for an entire damned year? This is taking the Republican philosophy of “he who governs best …
Well blow me down
Today my sister brought over a DVD of the first “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie for us to watch, so what’s on ABC tonight? Yup.
Lazy
Dear Diary: Today I avoided outrage (by the simple technique of reading no newspapers) and did laundry instead.
Personalized travel books
While I’m on vacation I’ve always tried to find books which tell the history of the region. I remember a trip to Yosemite in 1983 when I stayed overnight in a little town called El Portal, just outside the western entrance to the park. My motel room fronted on the Merced River, which made a …
Panting along
I finished Good Omens, went on to finish Going Postal, and am now starting Small Gods. Oh, and I got a notice from the library; yet another one of the ones I put on reserve is ready for pickup.