RT @OTOOLEFAN "Rience Preibus' name without vowels is RNC PR BS? Where's Glenn Beck when you need him?" eternal hashtag: #RNCPRBS # RT @StNickEpiscopal at 10 am today: lots to pray for and discuss over coffee. Father Steve's news, next steps, and Da Bears game later! # Father Steve is now a "lame duck" vicar, soon to go to Our Savior, Elmhurst. He was nearly duck flambé today; candles and sleeves dont mix! # Pat Kalicki, Senior Warden, will lead St Nicholas in the interim. Saturday liturgy at 430pm continues, there will be a smooth transition. # As Father Manny's…
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It’s 10 degrees Fahrenheit here and snowing. We were going to go out with the cameras but so far it’s a coffee-in-bed day. The new heated mattress pad has been getting heavy use; David leaves it on all day during the week so Riley can stay cozy under the covers while the automatic thermostat lowers the temp til we get home. Here’s a wonderful blog I found following Chris’ recent kind comment; it’s a collection of wartime love letters. It is still most stringently cold here. Last night we had a heavy fall of snow; today the temperature is very…
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In my work life, I frequently send emails to people I don’t know, quite often to people in other countries. The standard opening in our company is supposed to be: “Dear Business Traveler,” … which I use most often when forwarding confirmation emails that come to our generic inbox. I use a rather anonymous tone and the generic signature block, because the emails are automatically generated to frequent travelers whose member accounts have become associated with our office. But when emailing someone I’ve spoken to, or to someone in Britain I “know,” I open with: “Hello (Firstname),” or even “Hallo,…
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I just used #Shazam to discover Hurt by Johnny Cash. http://shz.am/t11248206 # RT @bbcamerica "Cameron Diaz talks #TopGear w/ @JimmyKimmel. She feels really good about her time vs Tom Cruise http://aol.it/e0wZnj" # RT @boobiewed: We do!!! RT @HarryMinge: No-one gives a fuck that it's #Boobiewed anymore." I DO. Family member had rad mastectomy yesterday. # It's #boobiewednesday Have you self-examined today? Follow @boobiewed and spread the love. # My mammogram results from Monday were NORMAL. Good luck all! #boobiewednesday #fb # RT @TWCBreaking "Airport update: Islip, NY remains closed until at least noon. Deicing continues at BUF DTW (Detroit) PHL…
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Our cat Riley has been diagnosed with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and we’re about to embark on “the new normal” with him. He seems fine but his weight is down since last year and his white blood cell count was high, so our vet Dr Esbenson of Arlington Cat Clinic sent a sample on to the feline oncologist. So in a small scale we’re experiencing some of the fear and uncertainty that anyone with a cancer diagnosis faces. It’s the chronic form, slow to develop, and depending on how this chemotherapy and steroids regimen works out, he could be happy and…
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Big WIN for WN on this story – it’s a terribly sad story, but this pilot’s exemplary actions make it easier to take. My condolences to Mr. Dickinson and his family. CNN — Time was running out, and Mark Dickinson wasn’t sure whether he’d get to see his dying 2-year-old grandson one last time. A long line at Los Angeles International Airport’s security checkpoint had kept him from getting to his gate on time. His grandson Caden would be taken off life support in a matter of hours in Denver, Colorado, with or without his grandfather’s presence, according to CNN…
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Lymphocytic Leukemia Orcinus list of eliminationist rhetoric from 2007 http://webkit.dailykos.com/stories/2011/1/11/935418/-Arizonas-extremism-in-the-spotlight.html Reminder of the shooting by a conservative of Mary Rose Wilcox: "I shot her because the radio told me to." Terror in Arizona: Just another ‘isolated incident’? Funny how that list keeps mounting | Crooks and Liars Useful list of violent incidents from the past 2 1/2 years committed by wingnuts http://webkit.dailykos.com/stories/2011/1/11/935395/-Mental-illness-expert:-Yes,-ask-whether-political-climate-was-a-trigger-for-shooter.html Refudiates latest comment
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Ooooh. A worthy topic, will enjoy following this. In the world of science fiction TV, Babylon 5 is generally considered the first of the modern* story-arc series. It’s a genuine departure from the “Wagon Train to the Stars†paradigm that Old Trek created. I don’t think we’d have had Buffy The Vampire Slayer and the Battlestar Galactica reboot without it and Deep Space Nine to convince the studios that genre audiences had long attention spans and an appetite for moral complexity. For me personally, Bab 5 was the the TV series of my mid-twenties. I watched it as I settled…
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FOX News cuts away from ‘Giffords vigil’ when Sarah Palin’s name is mentioned | Crooks and LiarsWhy did Shepard Smith urge viewers to stay tuned for the press conference coming up, only for FOX to cut away abruptly in mid-sentence after they showed a man at the vigil invoke Sarah Palin? DonationsPossible ethics violation, attending fundraiser on Capitol grounds and specifically calling it “swearing in” Social Security 101 | Crooks and LiarsNeed to listen to the Crazy 8’s song “Johnny Q” NPR.org » New Medical School Model: Adopt A Family To TreatHeard this story, like the concept of community medicine.…
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http://whiskeyfire.typepad.com/whiskey_fire/2011/01/try-to-be-nice-and-look-what-it-gets-you.HTML Yes, wingnut rhetoric is dangerous and irresponsible and loony. But worrying about whether or not wingnut rhetoric is responsible for the Tucson nutjob, well, that’s like worrying about shutting the barn door after the horse has been shot and fucked and sold for glue. Surely: this shooting was horrific. But then, wingnut rhetoric has directly led to mind-boggling numbers of deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan; it’s ruined the American economy; it’s made torture routine; it has succeeded in preventing the nation from taking effective action to prevent environmental catastrophe.