Is a CIA Recruit Training Kit toy really necessary? Really? I was in a toy store picking up a few things for our son’s birthday tomorrow, and when I saw this, I just had to catch it on camera. Does anyone think that the CIA is all about playing infrared tag? This is what we’re telling our kids now? (shaking head)
Enjoy this day, and meditate upon hope and resurrection and refreshment and life and the eternal. And chocolate (why not?). [myspace]http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=26253154[/myspace] “White Lily” – Laurie Anderson What Fassbinder film is it – The one-armed man Walks into a flower shop And says: “What flower expresses Days go by And they just keep going by… Endlessly… Pulling you Into the future? Days go by… Endlessly… Endlessly pulling you… Into the future?” And the florist says: “White Lily”…. ?
Just when I had loads and loads to blog about, I got knocked down by oak pollen. I just knew those trees were hostile. There is too far too much to tell, so here’s just a very quick summary. Equinox Weekend – Inconsolably depressed, and for no good, acceptable (rational) reason. Spiraling outside my will. Surrounded by a wall. Falling down a well. But then… the thunder quieted a little and – between the soundcracks of the whirlwind – I…
Jolly Roger of Reconstitution 2.0 has bestowed upon me a very lovely award. It’s been a busy, busy week, but I finally have a chance to post it. These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must…
Sarah Palin enthusiastically defends the cruel practice of shooting wolves from the air. Palin has proposed legislation – and even cash incentives – to encourage this practice. She offered aerial hunters a state payment of $150 for every wolf killed before it was defeated by the state superior court as an illegal use of bounty payments. Back in 2007, she had already approved spending $400,000 of state money to counter a citizens’ initiative at halting the killing of animals from…
I’ve been noticing an upsurge lately in the frequency of some Republicans referring to the Democratic Party as the “Democrat Party.” It’s not the Democrat Party. It’s the Democratic Party. A member of the Democratic Party is a Democrat. I don’t know what the right-wing imagines might be gained by referring to the Democratic Party as the Democrat Party. The far right seems to think that this terminology works as a pejorative. It doesn’t. It just makes you sound a…