So I was [happily] wrong...
1) A few days ago I worried about Judge Roberts being an ultra conservative idealogue; today's NYTimes bio on Judge Roberts and Wednesday's Washingtonpost 'Campaign for the Court' both paint a far more comfortable picture of someone who's personally classic conservative but still takes cases on individual merit. (If you care, you can read the decision on the French Fry case, too.)
2) A few days ago I was also worried that the Judge Roberts nomination would eclipse the Karl Rove / Valerie Plame story.
Again, I was wrong*: The WashPost front page yesterday discussed how Plame's name (Wilson, actually) was in a document marked 'Secret' and the paragraph itself clearly marked so. And today the NYTimes continues the the Rove/Plame developing story, with discussion about Rove and Libby and the uranium. (Also open on my machine is an article about Matt Cooper first learning of the Wilson/Plame relationship from Rove. 'Course that was before the nomination.)More linkage perhaps later tonight. Unrelated to Judge Roberts or Karl Rove, but related to what's going on in Congress at the moment, Jessicamelusine reacts to House repassage of the USA Patriot Act (Call your Senator if you'd like those sunset provisions to sunset):Fragment: Union Down
The stars are falling out.
This is how they display the flag in a distress signal; bars up top, stars ready to fall, a small apocalypse, something that says help us, we're drowning/falling/sinking/starving.
The stars wink out, they blink and vanish. There are already people talking about moving elsewhere, across the face of the earth. It's always this way: they leave, exile themselves, find a place where they are welcome that isn't here.
Does this mean there will be a Little America in other cities, other streets now? In fifty years, will citizens of other countries go down to the neighborhood for Fourth of July, to see how they celebrate, taste the native foods? What will it be like to look at a homeland across a border, through another set of eyes?
The stars are falling out.
Random searches on the subway, seizing ISP records, so many ways to plunge and burn.
This is an actual emergency.
This is a distress call.
Saying that, new news from London doesn't make me too likely to move there any time soon. . . . Alright, here, have some levity: The intern in the ceiling, otherwise known as "Brody's Very Bad Day."
*Well, for those of us who read WashPost and NYTimes I was wrong. Just learned that on Monday, there were 1,043 news stories mentioning "Karl Rove" on top TV stations-yesterday there were 128. Moveon are staging a letter campaign to keep this in the news. Interestingly, no letters have so far gone to the Baltimore Sun.
2) A few days ago I was also worried that the Judge Roberts nomination would eclipse the Karl Rove / Valerie Plame story.
Again, I was wrong*: The WashPost front page yesterday discussed how Plame's name (Wilson, actually) was in a document marked 'Secret' and the paragraph itself clearly marked so. And today the NYTimes continues the the Rove/Plame developing story, with discussion about Rove and Libby and the uranium. (Also open on my machine is an article about Matt Cooper first learning of the Wilson/Plame relationship from Rove. 'Course that was before the nomination.)More linkage perhaps later tonight. Unrelated to Judge Roberts or Karl Rove, but related to what's going on in Congress at the moment, Jessicamelusine reacts to House repassage of the USA Patriot Act (Call your Senator if you'd like those sunset provisions to sunset):Fragment: Union Down
The stars are falling out.
This is how they display the flag in a distress signal; bars up top, stars ready to fall, a small apocalypse, something that says help us, we're drowning/falling/sinking/starving.
The stars wink out, they blink and vanish. There are already people talking about moving elsewhere, across the face of the earth. It's always this way: they leave, exile themselves, find a place where they are welcome that isn't here.
Does this mean there will be a Little America in other cities, other streets now? In fifty years, will citizens of other countries go down to the neighborhood for Fourth of July, to see how they celebrate, taste the native foods? What will it be like to look at a homeland across a border, through another set of eyes?
The stars are falling out.
Random searches on the subway, seizing ISP records, so many ways to plunge and burn.
This is an actual emergency.
This is a distress call.
Saying that, new news from London doesn't make me too likely to move there any time soon. . . . Alright, here, have some levity: The intern in the ceiling, otherwise known as "Brody's Very Bad Day."
*Well, for those of us who read WashPost and NYTimes I was wrong. Just learned that on Monday, there were 1,043 news stories mentioning "Karl Rove" on top TV stations-yesterday there were 128. Moveon are staging a letter campaign to keep this in the news. Interestingly, no letters have so far gone to the Baltimore Sun.