Today I went to pick up Maya from pre-school.  She was drawing when I arrived, which is pretty much the case every time I come - the girl loves her art.  When I complimented her on the picture she was drawing, one of her other classmates perked up. "Maya drew me a picture," he said. "It was really funny ( Read more... )

1. We cracked open Here Comes Science today, by They Might Be Giants. I was sorta wondering how they were going to handle the whole "science versus revealed knowledge" thing, and if they'd need to dance around it. Well, not wondering any more. Track one, first verse:

Science is real From the Big Bang to DNA Science is real From evolution to the ( Read more... )

Happy halloween. I just went to a wedding! It was the bees knees.

Now: a drunk Ewok attempts to kick Al Roker, who is dressed as Han Solo, in the nuts. No, I'm not kidding.

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Maya wanted to put on a dress after she got home from school today - pretty common, really. After she got it on, I was sorta overcome by how cute she looked, and told her so.

ME: Maya, I don't love you because you're pretty... but I love you very much, and you're very pretty.

MAYA: I love you too, Daddy.

ME: But would you love me if I weren't pretty?

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So, I read this article today, and it sorta blew my mind a little. Not that it should.

The government looking at expanding a pioneering scheme in Flint, one of the poorest US cities, which involves razing entire districts and returning the land to nature...

Having outlined his strategy to Barack Obama during the election campaign, Mr Kildee has now ( Read more... )

... I will like in bed and imagine that this girl is singing to me.

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Jebus.

"We fail to recognize the fact that we're alone out there in terms
of trying to achieve the objective of forcing the Iranians to give up
their nuclear weapons," Cheney said at a dinner following the Intelligence Squared debatein which Elizabeth Cheney and former Coalition Provisional Authority ( Read more... )

Linking to alicublog, because I can't bear to link to the original. Roy gives this the fisking it deserves.

I think one of his commenters hits it on the head - for a bunch of people who claim to be fighting an encroaching nanny state, they sure are patronizing.


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