• Music

    Why Music Matters

    Just watch this kid’s face as his ukulele gently weeps, rocks out, then weeps again. #fb [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/hPtbG0vtkHY" width="425" height="344" wmode="transparent" /]

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Judges Are Too Important… To Let Them Slide Into Office On Name Recognition Or Random Chance Alone

    My friend Steve passed this link along via the group he created on Facebook, Cook County – Know Your Judicial Candidates. We’re in early voting now and the election for these judges is February 2nd, and typically, most people vote at random if they vote at all. Which is pretty terrifying, when you consider that in some way, most of the justices on the Supreme Court started out by either being appointed or elected locally. So let’s not leave this important decision totally to chance, shall we? Because they decided that corporations have First Amendment rights, and so can that…

  • The Life of Riley

    We’re going to the V-E-T

    @MrRileycatEsq and I are going to the k-i-t-t-y d-o-c-t-o-r in about 10 minutes. Routine checkup, will be asking them about the adolescent acne that he seems to have on his fuzzy little chin. As usual, he will yowl all the way there and barf on the way back, so it’ll be an awfully fun time for all.

  • Blogs Wot I Read - Second Life

    Visually Speaking: Digby on Sunday!

    Darn it, we have theater tickets Sunday, so I won’t be able to make this event, but you can check out the details on the #Cafe Wellstone Ning, and listen via streaming radio if you can’t make it inworld. Doubtless you’ve read them, perhaps you’ve quoted them (‘What digby said.’), now you can hear them. digby & mcjoan aka Joan McCarter take to the stage. What will* they talk about?

  • The Never-Ending Bloga

    TinyMCE Advanced Plugin

    Check out all the lovely buttons I now have using a WordPress plugin called TinyMCE Advanced! Unfortunately, the option to “import local styles” via that nice drop-down menu is broken and causes part of the header graphic to replace the editing text box: not great behavior in a text editor, no? So to easily put in my beloved drop shadows, I still have to use the old Quicktag plug in to put my custom CSS code in that adds the shadow effect.