It's been a while.

I was in Orlando, Florida from the day before Hallowe'en to this past Saturday. Good times, good food and beverages, fun rides. The hotel was a bit wrong in several little ways, but nothing so terrible to make us quit the place mid-stay.

What I was most looking forward to--the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal ( Read more... )

The delayed announcements to announce announcements was a fun gimmick and it generated a toss between The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, but I didn't actually believe Jon or Stephen would bother to hold a rally. Well, it's really happening. The Rally to Restore Sanity:

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Yesterday I was thinking of (and then went in search of) Thomas Paine's The Crisis. It's a collection of articles from the 18th Century written to stir the colonies to rise up against the British. Setting that notion aside, I always appreciated its general message of taking responsibility, doing what needs to be done so that the next generation ( Read more... )

I've been following John Fugelsang's running commentary about this lately, too.

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"You fear a strike of lightning. Something that will distract me from you. A pretty face to catch the eye, an ideal to catch the attention, but I have encountered both and while they have piqued my intellectual interest or my imagination, they have not touched my heart, never mind captured it."

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I'm used to seeing his short parodies, but for him to carry on like that for more than half the show's running time ... Well done. And a little scary.

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Oh, Jon. I love you. So very much.

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I'd like John Oliver to do protest (or even fake-protest) coverage at least once a week. It never fails to have fun results.


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Just burning away the vacation hours...

Going to be flying down to North Carolina and staying with the parents from 11. August to 18. August. Possibly going to the beach at some point during that time-span, too.

Something completely different and unrelated, here's a nonsensical flashback:


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