• Politics, Schmolitics

    Tag, You’re It!

    Apparently, everybody‘s doing it. So I am too. And no, I wouldn’t run off a cliff if everybody was doing that, too. It makes for a sucky blog entry. UPDATE: Hey, that didn’t take long, but the logo isn’t as cool as the one Joey the Accordion Guy blogged. UPDATED UPDATE: So yeah, my new tag line stays for a while. BTW, that wasn’t really “Robin Williams” that commented. David urged me to do a reverse lookup on on the source, and sure enough it led right back to his workplace. He totally cracked himself up. So now I’m Reality-Based…

  • Politics, Schmolitics

    Dirty Money: Laundry Needed

    Another reason to vote for Melissa Bean and against Phil Crane: the list of sitting Congresscrittes who took dirty money: Tom DeLay PAC Contributions, By State Yep, Crane took about $10,000 – amazing. He manages to be a do-nothing at taking graft, too. Lots more Rethugs took way more, and quite a few didn’t take much or gave theirs back. So he’s bumping along in the middle.

  • Parish: Holy Moly (ECUSA)

    Stand Tall And Fabulous

    Bishop Gene Robinson: “I will not resign.”Well, good on you. I pray that we may all be one on this issue (oh, don’t look so shocked, it’s in the Prayer Book and everything). It’s interesting how much more conservative the African bishops are, and how naive we liberal Americans were for thinking that everyone else in the Anglican world would be okay with a concept that some of us have struggled to become okay with ourselves. In microcosm, some people still struggle at the local level, but I have hopes that the strugglers can come to terms with their feelings…

  • SABRE2th Tigress: Book 'em, Dano.

    Crash News

    Regarding yesterday’s plane crash in Missouri: when this kind of thing happens, the airline inhibits the internal flight information that we can look up in the reservations system. There’s just no sane way to to update flifo with “Plane crashed” and not seem really crude and heartless. Normal flifo for that flight for today shows that it’s been cancelled, but with no explanation: 2AA5966/20OCT« AA5966/20OCT CORPORATE AIRLINES STL 642P B14 IRK 734P 1FX CANCEL STL -IRK - *1001 Flifo for yesterday’s fatal crash simply comes back 2AA5966/19OCT« FLIFO DISPLAY AND UPDATES INHIBITED.

  • Politics, Schmolitics

    Made My Day

    I gave Media Matters some money, a few minutes ago. They’ve made my day. In fact, I’m so cheered up generally that I’ll actually talk about something other than politics for a minute: the proposed film of Pattern Recognition. One of these days (I’m shooting for November 3rd or 4th, you know) I’ll get back to nattering on about something other than my nascent interest in politics. I’m pretty cheered up generally by a lot of the things linked at Media Matters, a site I’ve run across before. So I added them to my Bloglines list. They’re probably a little…