Chicago Tribune: Karl Rove Got It From Novak Okay. He’s technically off the hook, according to the way Floyd Abrams laid it out the other day on Al Franken’s AAR show. . So who gave it to Novak, and did they have security clearance, or was this the biggest open secret in Washington history since JFK snuck wimmin in and out of the White House? And why isn’t Novak in jail, or is the grand jury just trying to confirm his testimony? It’s still highly dubious that Plame’s identity was deliberately used to deflect Wilson’s criticism. By Rove, of course.…
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Before Originally uploaded by GinnyRED57. Taken from a similar POV as Against Racism Against Poverty Against War
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Against Terrorism Against Racism Against War Originally uploaded by Beatnic. Original Title: Against Terrorism Against Racism Against War
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BBC NEWS | In Depth | london explosions Watching the vigil at Trafalgar Square right now. UPDATE: The speakers have been impressive, the theme is the same – diversity is strength. The variety of religious and secular leaders calling for unity is inspiring. And a really cool thing that may interest ginmar: Anthony Stewart Head seems to be the MC. Text will probably be available at the Beeb news site later. For now, I’m listening with half an ear while I get tickets issued and fix stuff that didn’t get issued yesterday, and take calls, and help people with changes…
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BBC NEWS | UK | ‘Ordinary’ lives of bomb suspects My God, they came from an ordinary British city, they were ordinary British subjects. But then Timothy McVeigh and Ted “Unabomber” Kaczynski were ordinary people from ordinary places. What made them become extraordinary? The British will be debating the root causes of these attacks – whether it’s religious mania, hatred of “people not like us,” alienation, mental illness, and so on. Just as we did with our home-grown “mad bombers” – and we’ve never found the answers, either. My husband David and I have been to Leeds, and we’ve taken…
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Dorothea Salo wonders about how it works that one is perceived differently by different people. She has enthusiastic admirers, and there are also people from the far end of the lunch table who dislike her writing or her forthrightness and opinions. And there are some who criticize her not for what she writes, but for what she is: childfree. One blogger considers me anathema (is there a word stronger than anathema? if there is, this blogger would use it of me) because I don’t make any particular secret of not liking ill-behaved children and not wanting children of my own…
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Okay, so I was running around doing errands before the big classic car show (“The Holy Rollers are coming, aiyeee, et cetera”) at Holy Moly tomorrow, and I passed this sign. Now, previously we’ve always been focused on pledges and budgets and can we afford this and that and “we’ve always done it this way” each year, and not really doing much to actually HELP people less fortunate than ourselves. Because to put it baldly, compared with some of the people and charities we’ve been talking about supporting, we’re rolling in dough. Yes, comparatively, and that’s in a year where…
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London Pride Originally uploaded by GinnyRED57. Last night I enjoyed a tasty glass of Fuller’s London Pride, as planned, and then photographed it and uploaded it to Flickr. Then this morning I was listening to a radio essay by Scott Simon on NPR called “The Resilience of London — and Londoners.” It was one of Simon’s best ever, right up there with his dispatches from Sarajevo. The piece ended with an old song by Noel Coward called “London Pride.” It was scratchy sounding and creaky in the joints, but it had something to say about the strength Londoners found to…
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towerbridge-thumb Originally uploaded by GinnyRED57. Another photo from the 2004 trip to Britain. I have to remember, until I figure out how to get the text to flow properly on photos posted from Flickr, that I need to write enough text to clear the bottom of the image, or the problem posed by having a floated image within a floated center column will keep screwing things up. I keep fiddling with the customized CSS at Flickr; images blogged from Flickr look great over at the Blogspot photoblog, but they’re are handled differently there (no CSS drop shadow) and the layout…
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So thanks then, terrorists. You’ve just succeeded in bringing the families of millions of Londoners that bit closer together, giving them an increased love of their city and an enhanced appreciation of their way of life. You might have destroyed the lives of several hundred people, but – and this is stating the bloody obvious you fuckwits – you’ve achieved nothing. My train goes through Kings Cross and my office is less than half a mile from three of the bombs, and how did it affect me and thousands like me? I had a longer walk to the station on…