Seeing the Forest: Republican Says We Need A Dem Congress Pete McCloskey speaks out – the Revolt of the Elders, he calls it. I’m sure the Repugs call it something else. (tags: Republican CorruptRepublicans DeLay Abramoff) Bush Sees a Chance for Change to Sweep Mideast – New York Times “This is a moment of intense conflict in the Middle East,†Mr. Bush said. “Yet our aim is to turn it into a moment of opportunity and a chance for broader change in the region.†Shit, does he think we’re fools? Doesn’t he know we don’t see Regi (tags: MiddleEast Israel…
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I started a really, really long post about our visit to the Museum of Science and Industry‘s Leonardo da Vinci exhibit, but then ecto and I had a parting of the ways and my post got totally messed up. I had a ton of links that were all formatted incorrectly, and then my attempts to add text got formatted all wrong because ecto does not play well if you switch between “Rich View” formatting and “HTML View” formatting. Plus, the backspace key behaves oddly in ecto, and I over-deleted a bunch of critical text. Bad, bad things happen. For instance,…
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My husband David and I met up with parents Shel and Leah, siblings Mitch and Gloria, and also Aunt Gwen for a day at the Museum of Science and Industry. Mom Leah had gotten tickets to the Leonardo Da Vinci exhibit, but the real reason for the outing was the annual family celebration of Hannukkah in July. We picked a perfect day for it; there were record temperatures, crazy drivers on the tollway and downtown, a huge car show on the lakefront, and of course people were already staking out spots for Venetian Night tonight, which seems to involve boats,…