I admit it. I still use two spaces after a period (two after a colon, too). It’s wrong to continue to use a convention meant for monospaced type in this electronic era. It’s a habit, dammit, like smoking, albeit less harmful to your health. Miss Mokosh taught me that technique back when I was a …
I’ve paid very little attention to the NFL this season, so I demand forgiveness for saying “Atlanta’s 13-3? Who plays for them?” On those Sundays when I’ve turned to Fox or CBS or NBC I don’t recall the Falcons even being on the tube, yet here they are, about to meet the Packers in what …
That was a beautiful service from beginning to end. Here’s the C-Span video. That building is a sports arena. I was there when it first opened; they were trying to do summer session registration in one place rather than sending students all over the campus to find the right class and section. It was an …
Sarah Palin defended herself today from charges that her gunsights map had prompted Jared Loughner to go on his shooting spree in Tucson. In a video release she said, among other things, “Journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence that they purport to …
From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, during a press conference about the Tucson shootings, called Arizona “the Tombstone of the United States.” Some journalists gave the word a lowercase “t,” but the sheriff was clearly referring to the infamous silver-mining town 70 miles from Tucson — site of the shootout at the …
News Item: Former Texas US Representative Delay convicted of conspiracy to launder money DeLay’s Texans for a Republican Majority used $190,000 in corporate money in a swap with the Republican National Committee for money raised from individuals to help finance Republican candidates for the Texas House in the 2002 elections. I think I’ll go make …
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In a halfway-sensible country the right wing and its enablers and instigators in the media would be doing a little soul-searching after the shooting of Congresswoman Giffords and a dozen others and the deaths of Judge Roll, Christina Green, Gabe Zimmerman, Phyllis Schneck, Dorwin Stoddard and Dorothy Morris. Instead, you have statements like this from …
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Into the closet with you, Christmas. Into the washer/dryer with you, holiday tablecloths. And into the shower with me, grubby sweaty mess that I am after dealing with all those things.
Given Arizona’s poisonous political atmosphere this shouldn’t surprise anyone: Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords shot in Tucson. Apparently she was holding a “Corner Event,” a regularly-scheduled meeting in which she goes to local shopping centers to meet her constituents. She’s been taken to the University Medical Center in Tucson. Update: Giffords was shot in the head but …
Prime snark. We, the Real Americans, in order to form a more God-Fearing Union, establish Justice as we see it, Defeat Health-Care Reform, and Preserve and Protect our Property, our Guns and our Right Not to Pay Taxes, do ordain and establish this Conservative Constitution for the United States of Real America. It gets better …