• Dear Mom - Traveling Along, We're Adventurers

    So Far

    August 6, 2012 - By 

    So far, we’ve Flown from Chicago to Seattle had breakfast, lunch, and dinner with boats explored the Seattle Underground with tourons and alleged rats hiked on a beautiful forested trail by a remote beach had delicious beers with friends had circus with bread, which is a little different than having bread and circuses. avoided Seafair, but not the Seafair Pirates driven to Idaho hung out with family walked on a rails to trails route been licked by dogs eaten huckleberry ice cream (me only) eaten Vienna Sausages (again me only) seen 2 deer seen innumerable ground squirrels and chipmunks driven…

  • Twitter

    Weekly Tweets 2012-07-01

    July 1, 2012 - By 

    D'oh! Left phone at home, so retrieved it at lunch. Soon will be home every day. ☺ # Bullshit! Republicans blocked every attempt at reform. RT @cnnbrk Romney (blames Obama for GOP obstructionism) http://t.co/VFyzYBX8 # "bullshit GOP obstructionism" is the problem here. # RT @BlueDuPage #GOP Filibustered #DreamAct Twice in 2010 http://t.co/v3Fm2gjs @Reince #immigration #4jobs #2futures #p2 #tcot # Fortune: ATF Never Purposefully Let Guns Walk During Fast And Furious http://t.co/o794N8Sb via @TPM # Dear @RepJoeWalsh: What part of IT'S NOT A TAX, IT'S THEREFORE NOT A TAX INCREASE do you refuse to understand? # "we don't treat people like…

  • Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    Illinois health care cuts to Medicaid: Uh oh

    June 30, 2012 - By 

    I don’t know if this affects anyone we might know, but even if not, it’s shameful. When sweeping health care cuts take effect Sunday, the parts of Illinois that stand to be hardest hit are the places where folks already are struggling to get by.City neighborhoods like Austin and Englewood, Humboldt Park and Pilsen. Inner-ring suburbs like Cicero. Rust-belt cities like Rockford. Whole swaths of rural Illinois. They’re areas where people make less, jobs are scarce and more rely on the government for help.Medicaid cutbacks mean hundreds of thousands will see health care benefits greatly curtailed, tens of thousands will…

  • Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    Fortune: ATF Never Purposefully Let Guns Walk During Fast And Furious | TPMMuckraker

    June 28, 2012 - By 

    Link: Fortune: ATF Never Purposefully Let Guns Walk During Fast And Furious | TPMMuckraker Of course not Because that would be ridiculous, but easily used against them because the simple lie is more believable than the complex truth. Reality is often messy. There is no narrative structure. One day ahead of a House vote to find Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, a six month investigation by Fortune magazine found that Arizona-based agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives never purposefully allowed guns to “walk” during Operation Fast and Furious.

  • Twitter

    Weekly Tweets 2012-06-24

    June 24, 2012 - By 

    SL9B: Opening Ceremony – Film and Speech http://t.co/uXWHGOXB via @wordpressdotcom # Jackson Street Books on #Yelp Love this small independent bookstore on the way to the coast in Hoquiam. Nice place, … http://t.co/aU8avamm # Hey @93XRT — that "metablock" ad you just ran on the stream was so annoying, I switched stations. # Powered by Twitter Tools

  • Radio

    Fran Lebowitz On Q With Jian Ghomeshi: Not David Sedaris

    June 20, 2012 - By 

    I spend a lot of time listening to radio via WinAmp over headphones while goofing around on my computer at home. I happened to tune in to WBEZ and caught the last few minutes of an interview between CBC Q’s Jian Ghomeshi and somebody that sounded a lot like a very peevish David Sedaris. However, the conversation was all about the lack of manners shown by Americans in everyday life, and the voice and accent didn’t quite have the languid edginess of Sedaris’. How surprising to find that it was actually Fran Lebowitz speaking. She approves of cigarette smoking, but…