• Favorite Things

    This American Life Backs Into The Future

    October 14, 2006 - By 

    the future is yesterday � This American Life to offer free podcast Hurray! Hurray! We’ll get to listen to TAL any day! The blogosphere may sneer at Chicago Public Radio’s archaic method of getting the word out to the masses (they used a traditional news release) but the news is good nonetheless: I’ll be able to listen to TAL when I want, and not accidentally by being in the car when the show is on. That is, apparently they’ll offer the podcast of each week’s show free for 7 days, then it’ll be archived, where you’ll have to find it…

  • Mini-Posts

    links for 2006-10-11

    October 10, 2006 - By 

    Telegraph | News | Williams told to act over gay clergy or face summit boycott Apparently, the liberal American church is at least open and honest about gay clergy.Not so with the mother English church, which is conservative in name only. This causes the true conservatives no end of angst and anger. (tags: Episcopalian Anglican GayClergy)

  • The Life of Riley

    Those Rotten Monkeys Did It Again

    October 9, 2006 - By 

    It's been lovely, really lovely being head of household. Now it's the time of year when it gets cold and my fur puffs up to keep me warm when a door or window is cracked open. It was like this before when the monkeys brought me home from the catpersons' detention center. And how do they mark this anniversary? They go away and leave me again. I tried to stow away in my monkeylady's carry thing, but she found me. Drat. Today the lady who looked after my simple needs came in and fed me and petted me. And now…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Foley:

    October 9, 2006 - By 

    Ex-page reported Foley to GOP lawmaker in ’00 | Chicago Tribune A spokeswoman for Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz.) confirmed Sunday that a former page showed the congressman Internet messages that had made the youth feel uncomfortable. Kolbe’s press secretary, Korenna Cline, said “corrective action” was taken. But Cline said she hadn’t yet determined whether that action went beyond Kolbe’s confrontation with Foley. The revelation pushes back by at least five years the date when a member of Congress has acknowledged learning of Foley’s questionable behavior. A timeline issued by House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) suggested the first lawmakers to know,…