Reality-based in spite of my best efforts
Conservatives repeated Bush administration’s misleading comparison between explosives, other munitions
Media conservatives have echoed the Bush administration’s misleading argument that the reported 380 tons of explosives that went missing from the Al Qaqaa facility in Iraq pales in comparison to the reported 405,944 tons of munitions that have been captured in Iraq so far. In fact, [...]
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Girl Smacks Boy
The two-hour premiere is Tuesday, November 16th. Woo!
For 23 years, Carol Sheehan and her husband, Frank, have lived in the same Holladay neighborhood and their politics have remained about as constant as their address.
“My ballot is so stiff it doesn’t bend,” Carol Sheehan said. “It is very straight Democrat.”
But Thursday, her right to place that Democratic vote was challenged [...]
Just in case I have to retreat from the Reality-Based Community into absurdity, the new Stitch’s Great Escape attraction opens Nov. 16 in Disney World. A cow-orker is taking vacation time then specifically for this very event. When we went to Dizzy Whirled and did the Alien Encounter (which has been re-worked with a [...]
my husband David and I had a chance to test-drive a Ford Escape Hybrid today - meaning a partly gas-powered, partly electric-powered vehicle (a decent sized SUV) that gets great gas mileage and is touted as environmentally friendly.
The technology behind it is interesting, innovative, and impressive from my point of view, since it’s designed [...]