A little browsing in Bloglines led me to this post: My Left Wing :: A Stretch No More: Crossing the Godwin Divide (Part I) …which led me to another blogger, Steven D’s post, “We Live Under A Dictatorship,” which is worth a good, hard read. Another link on the first blog led me somewhere familiar: The Guardian: Jonathan Raban/Dictatorship is the danger What is surprising – more than that, electrifying – is that the voice belonged to Sandra Day O’Connor, who retired a few weeks ago from the supreme court. O’Connor is a Republican and a Reagan nominee. Regarded as…
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All in all, it was a perfect day here in Suburbia Nervosa. I had friends who were going to be at the Pirate Fest in Port Washington, WI, so my husband David and I had decided to drive up for a few hours. Since getting an early start wasn’t all that necessary, we lolled around drinking coffee, listening to the Saturday lineup on WBEZ (naturally, we listened to WWDTM) and eventually gathered a few odds and ends that included cameras, hats, sunscreen… and books. One of my friends is a writer and would be signing copies of his latest book…
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Okay, this makes total sense to me. Last time David came back from an out of town trip, I did this very thing on my own by parking out at the “Kiss N’ Fly” place, which is a turnaround right by the north exit of the ground transportation rail link to remote parking. There were a few spots right there within site of the door that were 30 minute wait, so I stumbled upon the idea all on my own. No more driving in circles at airports | Chicago Tribune “This is something that is desperately needed at O’Hare and…
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I rarely, rarely listen to the radio of an evening anymore, but for reasons that’ll become evident in the next post, I’m listening to WBEZ tonight. At the moment, the show that’s on is called Sound Opinions. The two hosts discuss rock music and pop and usually have guests on where they talk about music, play a few songs, and give a lot of in depth background on today’s best new and veteran artists. Tonight’s program is about the genre of “Rock En Espanol,” and the guest was mentioning various bands, including one from Argentina that he thought was one…
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I hadn’t heard about this before, but apparently the FAA has been blocking the development of new wind farms in the Midwest. This came about because of a Congressional amendment requiring an inquiry into whether wind farms interfere with military radar. So, several Democratic senators (including both of my senators, Durbin and Obama, and the redoubtable Russ Feingold of Wisconsin) are calling for the ban to be removed. Revive wind farms, senators ask | Chicago Tribune WASHINGTON, D.C. — Six Democratic U.S. senators are urging federal officials to quickly resolve a dispute that has blocked construction of more than a…
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First, I saw this BBC NEWS | Americas | Hard labour for Abu Ghraib abuser, who was sentenced to a big, whopping, 90 days hard labor for urging his big guard dog to bark and growl menacingly, inches from prisoners’ faces. And then I saw this: the guy who stuffed a dead mouse in his Taco Bell Burrito in a botched extortion attempt gets… 16 to 30 months in prison. There’s justice for you.
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I know that the gen on Bad Wolf is out there on the web – we’re hooked on the new incarnation of Doctor Who these days, and we’ve been managing to avoid spoilage up til now. There are some things I do know, and so I’m not happy to see the end of Series One, but then on the other hand, the previews for the 2nd part of the series final. Oh, and I loves me some old-school Evil Adversaries. All the hints throughout this season seem to be about to bear fruit. Shiny, menacing, electrically charged fruit.
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Not sure how I feel about this. I’m all for sharing. I’m not keen on megacorp entertainment’s enforcement of copyright when the artists themselves get a very small cut of the price of the “product.” What if an artist wants to share their own music, offering free music to introduce their work to potential fans? I’ve got some like that right now on my iPod. Which I will listen to later, I might add. BBC NEWS | Technology | Police hit major BitTorrent site A website accused of directing users to pirated films, music and software has been closed by…