RT @cdashiell "Only the liberal churches protested slavery." # Wow, an oil pipeline UNDER a major river. What genius thought that one up? # No asthma or tight chest today! #fb # What is wrong with United Airlines at IAD? Long lines, nobody available to check my guy in because kiosk can't handle British passport??!! # 2nd time this week UA at IAD has my people missing flights because no one available to help customers. The kiosks don't work for everyone. # London Bomb Blasts: You Can't Beat the System http://flic.kr/p/39bDK # RT @ThriftyinWhite: Just got assigned an indepth story…

Good whatever local time it is to you! # Hmm. Is it wrong that I want to get a tiny possum avatar in Second Life? They are SO CUTE in frilly dresses. http://is.gd/kcVLyd # In totally unrelated political news, Michelle Bachmann still gives me the heebie-jeebies. # RT @JimGoodrich "In Illinois we don't have Death Row, we have Governor's Row #BlagojevichGuilty quot; # RT @dvnix "RT @emokidsloveme: So I guess Blagojevich won't be making any more Not Guilty Pistachio commercials." # Several of us here just made the Blago face: long upper lip, pouting lower lip. # Tammy Duckworth making…

Ha! Image is everything: "Need to change term from "big oil" to something more tempered." @gdnpalin #palinemails http://j.mp/iEHQNj # Tornado sirens going off in Hoffman. We're in the basement. Probably nothing. #fb # Christ, what an asshole: Southwest pilot rants inflight about "gays, grannies, and grandes" on hot mic #WNpilot http://is.gd/rjpXfT # Just booked a corporate business traveler into the Best Western Precious Moments Hotel in Joplin MO. Advzd him chance of cute overload. # Just in time for #FF @cluttercleaner @RileyWaggaman @HoardersPossum @rodvik Thanks for the follows, will attempt to be interesting. # Saturday at last… No plans today…

RT @StNickEpiscopal ""O Comforter, draw near, within my heart appear, and kindle it, thy holy flame bestowing." Hymn #516 for Pentecost" # The Teaparty/GOP want to reconstitute the nation in their fantasy image, and Frank Luntz wants to be the Framer of the Reconstitution # Just Desserts: RT @TLW3 "Harold Camping Suffers Stroke http://is.gd/lJH2Nd / Irony " #p2 #p21 #dems #tcot" # I predict the wackiest one wins. RT @NewsHour "Seven GOP presidential hopefuls take the stage tonight http://ow.ly/5gpzx (Morning Line)" # RT @chicagotribune "Crews responding to 'incident' involving WWII bomber in #Oswego http://trib.in/m9poSh" # It's Mitt Romney and the…

Listening to Whad'ya Know? on WCPT, happy to discover Michael Perry and http://sneezingcow.com/ # Listening to Mark Marron on WCPT. Is this one of his first shows? Cool. # Correction: heard Mark Maron's first show on @WBEZ and… enjoyed it quite a lot! # D'oh. Spelling FAIL. Sorry, @marcmaron # Santorum running, whips GOP base into frothy mix of pleasurable anticipation. http://is.gd/ohUCmI # RT @NewsHour "Would you vote for former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum for president? http://ow.ly/5b01D" # Surely "frothy mix" is trending. Let's see if we can get #Santorumnewsleak trending too. # A news leak from Rick Santorum must…

Last full day of #NWFolkLife for us. More music and performance-art people watching today, seeing a friend, and collapsing later. #fb # At St Paul's Seattle for a little meditation and reflection (with music and incense). #fb #episcopal # Wow. ::exhale:: Lovely service, very challenging modern piece by Arvo Pärt called Solfreggio. Acapella! #StPauls #Seattle #Episcopal # My new Taiko career begins! RT @fallingrock "Taiko drummer @GinnyRED57 at #NWFolkLife #fb http://twitpic.com/53x8tq" # At Sea-Tac, homeward bound to ORD. Flew @United out, flying @AmericanAir back, will be interested in direct comparison. #FB # I goofed up our TSA info somehow; at…

I checked in at Michael's Seafood & Steakhouse (117B E 1st St) on #Yelp http://bit.ly/dudEco # Bookshelf in restaurant has one called Heave Ho: the Little Book of Seasickness Location: http://is.gd/Vyr8Ap # A day without Rapture is a day without # Spent the day driving around Olympic National Park, lunch at Lake Crescent Lodge. http://twitpic.com/51bjfb # A day without Rapture is a day without # Beautiful sunny day. Eagles flying and calling in early morning at b&b. #fb # Rural sign humor: we just passed Uptha Creek in Joyce, WA #fb # Headed back into town. Passed Uptha Creek again,…

Dug out the "kitty garden" again, none of the perennials made it due to poor drainage. Removed about 8 gallons of horrid yellow clay. # Kitty Garden ready for more "good earth" and this year's batch of doomed perennials: phlox, coral bells, coriopsis http://twitpic.com/4y0skr # PS I hurt all over. # RT @HoardersPossum "RT @cluttercleaner: A bunch of people have asked, so here you go. Hoarders – Season 4 – Starts June 20th." YAYY! # There are wineries in Illinois and Michigan but somehow I don't think they'll be on the next season of #JamesMaysRoadtrip # For instance, can't see…

I'm traveling to one of the most unchurched states in the nation the day before the Rapture/the Great Re-Reckoning. Not expecting much. # RT @episcopalcafe "What should progressive Christians do about Jim Wallis?" (Sojourners refuse LGBTQ ad) http://bit.ly/jv0l24 #ecafe quot; # Everybody, please give it up (really, all your treasures, stuff and sticks) for @HoardersPossum # Remember, @RepJoeWalsh don't mess with Medicare. You werent elected by a very big margin (pretty weak tea, in fact)! # So the new Talking Point is "entitlement reform." Cowards hide behind euphemisms: call it what it is, Koch suckers! # Everyone is welcome to…

Kathleen Parker to birfers: Please feel free to take full possession of the insult. #fb http://is.gd/sF3xDB # Watching @CNN coverage re #BinLadenDead and reading the Trib. @ColonelTribune http://j.mp/kYYY8C # Dear World, please don't judge us by the tacky behavior of a bunch of college students celebrating like sports fans. #BinLadenDead # RT @SarahSpain Re: the twitpic of the "Obama Bin Laden" typo… aired on KTXL FOX40 in Sacramento, NOT National. http://twitpic.com/4s7aye # RT @scottagunn RT @ewstephe: So when Obama said last week he had 'better stuff to do' than talk about his birth certificate… Yeah. # That's done then. #BinLadenDead…