The extremely useful Nevada Thunder blogs a column by Lewis H Lapham of Harpers Magazine. So often, these articles aren’t available online without paying a fee or registration. It’s wonderful to be able to read them in full- or almost full- text. I really appreciate this, particularly for opinion columns hidden behind the New York Times “paid content” wall, and for articles in magazines I don’t normally encounter. Nevada Thunder � Blog Archive � The Case for Impeachment And no, I haven’t forgotten about Sen. John Conyer’s call for the formation of a select committee to investigate the Administration’s intent…
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Man! I want me one of these!! Riley would be up near the top of the scale, he has a relatively high-pitched voice. Usually, he says “Mee! Mee!” and occasionally says “Meu. Meu.” I’ll have to get out the pitch pipe and figure out his most usual “note.” Stuey, on the other hand, would have been a non-musical sound effect near the lower end of the scale, making his trademark nasal “Ow. Ow. Error. Error.” sounds. Guess he would have been a contiuno kitty. Via Boing Boing: Cat piano
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The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century :: Joey deVilla’s Weblog :: Dad Ah, no! Joey’s father has passed away. My condolences to Joey DeVilla and his extended family for their loss. I’ll try to light a candle for Dr. DeVilla later and think of the good he did and the joy he brought into the world – he was an OB-GYN.
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Chicago Tribune | Actor Dennis Weaver Dies at 81 He really had quite a distinguished career. What a pity that career included Submerged. Still, he was in some great plays, great TV series, and some great movies (not Submerged, though).
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I’m in a very relaxed mood after a good meal.. and now listening to my ever-expanding collection of slack-key (ki ho’alu) guitar music. My latest aquisition is by Ledward Ka’apana. How I aquired it is another story. But it’s a nice CD, all instrumental, with a couple of interesting ’70’s-era standards thrown in for good measure – “Killing Me Softly” and “Love is Blue.” Both songs suffer from massive overplay – they were huge hits in their day, and have spent much of the last 2 decades in Muzak Hell. Ledward rescues them in his beautiful and sensitive arrangements. Strangely,…
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John Bryson Chane, Episcopal Bishop of Washington, speaks out forcefully on the gospel of intolerance preached by Nigeria’s Archbishop Akinola, and warns about the support for Akinola from conservative elements in the US seeking to “renew” mainline Protestant churches. A Gospel of Intolerance Were Archbishop Akinola a solitary figure and Nigeria an isolated church, his support for institutionalized bigotry would be significant only within his own country. But the archbishop is perhaps the most powerful member of a global alliance of conservative bishops and theologians, generously supported by foundations and individual donors in the United States, who seek to dominate…
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Polygamist Judge Ordered Off Utah Bench – Yahoo! News SALT LAKE CITY – A small-town judge with three wives was ordered removed from the bench by the Utah Supreme Court on Friday. The court unanimously agreed with the findings of the state’s Judicial Conduct Commission, which recommended the removal of Judge Walter Steed for violating the state’s bigamy law. ADVERTISEMENT Steed has served for 25 years on the Justice Court in the polygamist community of Hildale in southern Utah, where he ruled on misdemeanor crimes such as drunken driving and domestic violence cases. Oh, yeah, that was brilliant – put…
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news > Mondo Washington by James Ridgeway With Michael Roston” href=”http://villagevoice.com/news/0609,roston,72317,2.html”>village voice > news > Mondo Washington by James Ridgeway With Michael Roston A campaign to push the legislation through the U.S. court system up to the Supreme Court where South Dakotans can lead the charge to overturn Roe v. Wade, will cost over $1 million. South Dakota doesn’t have that kind of money. So the Governor is studying ways of accepting into the state treasury private funds with which to wage the battle in the name of the South Dakota citizenry. In short,the well-heeled opponents of abortion are going…
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Ran across this item because I’ve been keeping an eye out for mentions of slack key guitar in general, and George Kahumoku’s concert series in Maui in particular. Both topics are mentioned in this article from the Maui News, but what the writer has to say about true family values is worth noting: MAKING THE SCENE: All in the family For all the talk of “family values†in recent years that has actually been used to drive cultural wedges between groups of people, our chance to tag along on this Maui vacation was more of a spiritual homecoming. It was…
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ebar.com | The Bay Area Reporter Online An openly gay man and lesbian woman are among the five candidates vying to become California’s eighth Episcopal bishop. The church announced the list of potential candidates on Monday, February 20. Both Chicago’s Bonnie Perry and Seattle’s Robert V. Taylor are talented financial administrators with strong experience in congregational renewal and mission outreach. They preside over vibrant, growing churches and both earned their Masters of Divinity Degrees from New York’s progressive Union Theological Seminary. Each is in a long-term partnership. I’ve met Bonnie Perry several times at events here in the Diocese of…