Monthly Archives: October 2006

This American Life Backs Into The Future

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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 yourself. Reportedly, all those Audible.com subscribers will be refunded the money they paid just so they could listen to TAL when they wanted, rather than mess with their rather clunky but free archiving setup.

It’s odd, but I never seem to tune in to listen while at home – it comes on several hours after our favorite Saturday morning shows on WBEZ, after some things we don’t care for as much. It’s also broadcast on Friday evenings, but at a time that we’re likely to be watching one of our many Friday night sci-fi shows. So this development, although a mite tardy, is welcome.

Via Boing Boing, who make modern life easier to take.

Those Rotten Monkeys Did It Again

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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.

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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 she's gone, ho hum ho hum. I hope my monkeys are enjoying themselves… they shall find one or two little surprises on their return, however.

Foley:

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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, Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.), the chairman of the House Page Board, and Rep. Rodney Alexander (R-La.), became aware of “over-friendly” e-mails only last fall.

A former page himself, Kolbe is the only openly gay Republican in Congress. He is retiring at the end of the year.

Well, there’s the Republicans’ out: the witchhunt is ON, because they can claim that gay Republicans covered up for one of their own.

Even though similar reports were made to other, heterosexual Congresscritters. That won’t count, so long as this report stands as the oldest reported complaint.

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