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Music
When my dad was sick, I loaded up my iPod shuffle with all the oldies and Merle Haggard I had (lots of the former; only two songs of the latter) and took it to him in the hospital, so he wouldn't be so bored. He was too dizzy at the time to watch TV. After he died, Mom asked to keep the shuffle, so she could listen to the songs that he liked. A lot ( Read more... ) -
Awesome God; human institutions, not so much
Easter, for me, isn't much about bunnies or peeps. It's about God and how freakin awesome it is that she (or he; whatever, it's not as if God is petty about gender) bothered to understand the human condition first-hand, every stinking, nasty part of it, including excruciating death ( Read more... ) -
brilliant, ISDs
So, this morning at around 8 am, it was sleeting and very cold. The roads were interesting but passable. However, every weather reporting entity was giving us upwards of 90% chance of snow starting in late morning and continuing to about 3 inches accumulation. This in an area where nobody has snow tires or has a half clue how to drive in wintery ( Read more... ) -
unintentional self-parody
When CNN.com tries to be serious, it unintentionally sets the following two lines one right after another on its front page:
President Obama will sign an executive order Thursday setting up a bipartisan commission aimed at reining in the federal debt, a White House official said. FULL STORY
CNNMoney: Stimulus spending picks up
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gawkers are yuck
You know those people who slow down as they pass highway accidents not because they're trying to be safe but because they want a gander at the gore? Or the people who watch NASCAR races just in hopes of seeing a really awful crash ( Read more... ) -
nifty method of donating to Haiti relief
Bill Clinton's foundation has a nifty, easy way to donate to the efforts to help Haiti after the earthquake:
"Text HAITI to 20222 and $10 will be given to the Clinton Foundation's Haiti Relief Fund, charged to your cell phone bill."
(from the Clinton Foundation web site)
edit:
The Red Cross is also offering this donation method:
"Text HAITI to 90999 ( Read more... ) -
earthquake
Haiti? Oh, no. Another case of bad things happening to those who can least endure it. My prayers are there tonight.
The Red Cross. -
political grandstanding - blech
Sen. Harry Reid said something he regrets. Whatever. The thing that stinks my socks is all the political ya-hoos and talking heads who are now expressing "outrage." Yes, outrage. It's always outrage, even if the offense is minor. In this case... *shrug*. I'd say it's fairly minor. But then, I'd count lots of other "outrageous" crap as pretty minor ( Read more... ) -
that old greeting-card feeling
All righty, I just got our Christmas cards in the mail and will be sending them out in the next few days (late, of course; all the ones going to non-U.S. addresses will likely arrive after the fact, but you expect different from me ( Read more... )