With thanks to Tori for posting this.

If you've been reading my LJ long enough, you'll know I'm not one to easily dismiss the memory of 9/11/01.  If you haven't, go look at my entries on 9/11 for the last couple of years.  The day was sheer horror for all of us.  Especially those of us who spent the day not just reeling in the shock of it all, but ( Read more... )

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is no longer publishing print editions of the newspaper.  And yet I am unable to find a story in CNN.com to link to this post.  I am, however, able to find a "front page" story about whether or not Natasha Richardson (daughter and wife of Other Famous People Listed Prominently in the Story, though not given a single ( Read more... )

My attempt to discuss my feelings about Jim Cramer's appearance on The Daily Show last Thursday.   Because they were not what I expected...then again, neither was the interview.   Sadly, one of my questions is whether this was just all puppet theater, but I'll go on the assumption it wasn't, because they probably would have made that funnier ( Read more... )

The gravitas of the story did not escape me, but I couldn't help but be tickled by the journalist's ability to say "Pakistan's most populous and powerful province" without stumbling.

Okay, here's the thing, my taste in cinema is not nearly as "refined" as my taste in books, or even TV. So I was curious as to how I'd rate here.  Well, I certainly see the un-surprising trend of historically-set movies and action/adventure vs high-brow modern drama.  And I don't watch war movies, so...

I recall that I refused to ever see Driving ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday ( Read more... )

And here you all thought you'd gotten away without hearing it.

The usual disclaimer...the plane crash outside Buffalo last week was a tragedy, and my heart goes out to the families of the victims...that said:

WTF CNN???  Trying to dig a crawl space beneath your all time low?  The next morning's coverage, which hubby and I watched for about 20 minutes ( Read more... )

Or, more accurately, whining about the whining of the relgious pro-"life" right ( Read more... )

I'm thrilled that we have a president who isn't afraid to use big words, long sentences, and unabashedly high-flying rhetoric.  Not one folksy story about "Little Bobby So-and-So" or "Ol' Grandma Whosiwhatsis" or "Private Thus-and-Such".   Awesome speech.  Made me a little teary.  Way better than the spectacularly mediocre modern poetry.

Last ( Read more... )

Because nothing less than REM for me on this day, of course.

Sadly, I am at work it took me four tries just to be able to log on to a live feed (MSNBC) which kept locking up anyway.  So I watched the oath and clicked off.  Luckily we are DVRing the PBS coverage (having decided it would have the least annoying commentary) and will watch later.

And ( Read more... )