The end of the month. Woo hoo. Short cycle-didn’t get around to posting last week’s until Monday.
Not much has happened since then-Erika got a chalice tattoo. Kids went swimming. Working on icons.
Looks like Team Chimpy is flipflopping more than John Kerry in a Presidential campaign. Or a 650 pound catfish. Now they’re going from never negotiating with terrorists to negotiating with “non-criminal insurgents”. Political hairsplitting at its best… I guess they figure the only way to stop the “in its last throes” insurgency is to get them to the table-then ask them operational questions they should already know if they had anybody doing intelligence. Guess not.
Then Bush gives a speech to the nation, basically saying “we’re going to stay the course” “thousand points of light” Wait. That’s his dad. (Who by the way has said he wouldn’t have gone into Iraq. Smart guy.) I don’t think it worked. No one believes the 9/11 Iraq thing anymore, unless they’re brainwashed or braindead. I don’t think the staying the course thing is working, guys.
The Supreme Court split on display of the 10 commandments. They’re tiptoeing back and forth over a line about what the rules for displaying religious items-seems it’s OK when it’s one item of many, but not on its own. I have no idea if this is the right place to draw that line. I think it might be better to say “if you have one, you have to have others from other traditions”.
I downloaded SnagIt for getting a video capture of the Linda Ellerbee piece on the Shoah. I also got GlassFish, the Sun Java App Server and Google Earth, which doesn’t like proxies…