So with the plans to close Guantanamo proceeding apace and a facility found to house those who the government deems unreleasable, how long until:
a) some wingnut blogger claims that the weekend jailbreak in the Philippines was just a trial run for a similar attempt to storm whatever American jail we move Gitmo prisoners to?; and
b) some idiot in Congress repeats that claim in a desperate, pathetic display of NIMBY-ism?
Or has a) happened already, and I just missed it?
Caple Goes Rogue
It would be nice if the hypocritical shite Caple points out in regards to Tiger Woods coverage were only true of sports journalism, and not the whole wretched profession.
It would also be nice if I had Tiger Woods' bank account.
It would also be nice if I had Tiger Woods' bank account.
Win
The busker this morning at Union Station was dressed like Bob Crachit wearing his Sunday best (complete with dilapidated stovetop hat), and playing Greensleeves on his harp.
Yes, harp. And not as in 'harmonica'.
Yes, harp. And not as in 'harmonica'.
I Want One
If and when I am a homeowner, I may just get Werner Sobek to design it for me.
This is a better pic of one of his Triple Zero homes. Not to date myself as an old Claremont X-Men fan, but that'd probably be as close as I'll ever get to living in Forge's swanky all-glass-and-hologram-projectors pad.
This is a better pic of one of his Triple Zero homes. Not to date myself as an old Claremont X-Men fan, but that'd probably be as close as I'll ever get to living in Forge's swanky all-glass-and-hologram-projectors pad.
Onward Christian Soldiers
The DC Archdiocese has declared that if Washington is going to become a new Sodom and legalize same-sex marriage, they're going to cease performing all charitable activities within the city.
The excuse is that the law would require them to extend same-sex benefits to employees.
I'm sure there will be a big rush of church employees looking to get hitched with their same-sex partners once the law passes...
If politics have become more important to the archdiocese than charity, then they're in the wrong business.
The excuse is that the law would require them to extend same-sex benefits to employees.
"If the city requires this, we can't do it," Susan Gibbs, spokeswoman for the archdiocese, said Wednesday. "The city is saying in order to provide social services, you need to be secular. For us, that's really a problem."
I'm sure there will be a big rush of church employees looking to get hitched with their same-sex partners once the law passes...
If politics have become more important to the archdiocese than charity, then they're in the wrong business.
OK, I Admit It
I welled up a bit watching this.
No matter what else you have to say about Sully, his continued show of solidarity for the kids in Iran fighting to take their country back has been amazing.
No matter what else you have to say about Sully, his continued show of solidarity for the kids in Iran fighting to take their country back has been amazing.
Oh Noes!
ACORN has infiltrated the judicial system!
Insert usual snark here. Frankly I'm bored with the whole thing. If the best the wingnuts can do for a boogeyman is ACORN, they deserve political death.
Insert usual snark here. Frankly I'm bored with the whole thing. If the best the wingnuts can do for a boogeyman is ACORN, they deserve political death.
This Is a Fun Game
Let's try to think of worse safe words than 'green balloons':
Antidisestablishmentarianism
Paraskavedekatriaphilia
Semantic antics
Andrei Kirilenko (shout-out to all my peeps in Utah with that one)
Antidisestablishmentarianism
Paraskavedekatriaphilia
Semantic antics
Andrei Kirilenko (shout-out to all my peeps in Utah with that one)
The Raptors Wake Up
I said at the beginning of the season that it might not be until December that the Raptors started gelling as a team, what with the roster upheaval and all.
It looks like gelling time has arrived. After winning a tough road game in overtime last night in Washington, they are currently running the Bulls out of their own building. One sequence in particular stood out for me: the Raps reeled off four consecutive possessions, collecting offensive rebounds off three straight misses before Calderon buried a three to pretty much end the game with two quarters to go.
If you've been watching the Raps for a while you know how mind-bogglingly weird that sequence is. They're the team, historically, giving up all those offensive boards, not the team ripping them down.
They were up by 20 at the half, then extended that to 30+ in the third quarter (which had been their let-down quarter in the first two months, especially after a big first half -- the Denver game was probably the most egregious example.) It got so bad that on the last possession of the third quarter, Jarret Jack let the clock wind down by tucking the ball under his arm, leaning over and re-tying his shoelace.
In the annals of awesome dick moves in sporting events, that has to rank way up there.
After looking like total crap last week, the Raps are suddenly not just looking like a playoff team, they're looking like a dangerous one. They've hit bottom (coughAtlantacough), plunged through the crucible and come together as a team in the fire.
The Raps (Antoine Wright excepted... he still looked like his head wasn't in the game tonight) have figured out how they need to play to win basketball games. Now, they just have to keep doing it.
One more thing: Bryan Colangelo has done a great job building the roster not just for this year, but for next. If Bosh stays, great -- they've got five guys who can score in the starting lineup and some good plug-n-play pieces off the bench, and a roster that can play defense just well enough when they need to. If Bosh walks though, they can just find a defensive load to play center and block some shots, move Bargnani to the four and still have a dangerous offense with a better defense. Either way, it should be a solid team.
OK, two more things: DeMar DeRozan is going to be friggin' awesome. In a season or two he'll be Vince Carter without the sucky attitude. It's going to be a blast watching him evolve into Air Canada 2.0.
It looks like gelling time has arrived. After winning a tough road game in overtime last night in Washington, they are currently running the Bulls out of their own building. One sequence in particular stood out for me: the Raps reeled off four consecutive possessions, collecting offensive rebounds off three straight misses before Calderon buried a three to pretty much end the game with two quarters to go.
If you've been watching the Raps for a while you know how mind-bogglingly weird that sequence is. They're the team, historically, giving up all those offensive boards, not the team ripping them down.
They were up by 20 at the half, then extended that to 30+ in the third quarter (which had been their let-down quarter in the first two months, especially after a big first half -- the Denver game was probably the most egregious example.) It got so bad that on the last possession of the third quarter, Jarret Jack let the clock wind down by tucking the ball under his arm, leaning over and re-tying his shoelace.
In the annals of awesome dick moves in sporting events, that has to rank way up there.
After looking like total crap last week, the Raps are suddenly not just looking like a playoff team, they're looking like a dangerous one. They've hit bottom (coughAtlantacough), plunged through the crucible and come together as a team in the fire.
The Raps (Antoine Wright excepted... he still looked like his head wasn't in the game tonight) have figured out how they need to play to win basketball games. Now, they just have to keep doing it.
One more thing: Bryan Colangelo has done a great job building the roster not just for this year, but for next. If Bosh stays, great -- they've got five guys who can score in the starting lineup and some good plug-n-play pieces off the bench, and a roster that can play defense just well enough when they need to. If Bosh walks though, they can just find a defensive load to play center and block some shots, move Bargnani to the four and still have a dangerous offense with a better defense. Either way, it should be a solid team.
OK, two more things: DeMar DeRozan is going to be friggin' awesome. In a season or two he'll be Vince Carter without the sucky attitude. It's going to be a blast watching him evolve into Air Canada 2.0.
Next Stop: Blackface
I've noticed my repertoire has become very vanilla over the last couple of months. I'm not doing as much Prince (which is usually my go-to non-white guy) for one thing, but even beyond that the Motown and soul experiments seem to have mostly disappeared.
This must change, and not just with me nutting up and trying I Know You Got Soul (gulp) at Hip-Hop Karaoke. There's all kinds of stuff I've been meaning to try at 'regular' karaoke sometime: Use Me, Family Affair, Stand By Me...
This is the month for at least some of those.
This must change, and not just with me nutting up and trying I Know You Got Soul (gulp) at Hip-Hop Karaoke. There's all kinds of stuff I've been meaning to try at 'regular' karaoke sometime: Use Me, Family Affair, Stand By Me...
This is the month for at least some of those.
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