Via The Washington Post: The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee reached an agreement yesterday evening to wait until next Tuesday to vote on the nomination of Samuel A. Alito Jr. to the Supreme Court. The agreement alters the schedule announced Friday, during the final moments of Alito’s week-long confirmation hearings, by Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), who said he would conduct the panel’s vote today.
January 17, 2006
“ACLU Sues to Stop Illegal Spying on Americans, Saying President is Not Above the Law” (with helpful protein wisdom gloss)
From the ACLU Press release: Saying that the Bush administration’s illegal spying on Americans must end, the American Civil Liberties Union today filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against the National Security Agency seeking to stop a secret electronic surveillance program that has been in place since shortly after September 11, 2001. [Translation: Asserting that law has been broken without having evidence that a law has been broken, the ACLU today filed
January 17, 2006
“Things to do in Denver when you’re dead,” 3 (a philosophical meditation / Andy Garcia tribute post)
1. Marshall Tucker Band Reunion concert, Red Rocks Amphitheater 2. Broncos v Steelers AFC Championship game (generational) 3. outlet shops at Castle Pines / Park Meadows Mall 4. blackened Angus beef, 1” thick 5. world-class mechanical bull competition, Grizzly Rose Bar 6. Every Which Way But Loose retrospective tour 7. John Elway Chrysler-Jeep 8. Sauza Conmemorativo and Sandee H—closing time at the Denver Mattress Co. 9. Wipe your hard drive
January 17, 2006
It’s been three days
So, you know, feel free to help a brother out. And while you’re at it, if anybody reading this happens to knows of a discreet way to beat back a 48-hour Cherry Nyquil erection, I’m all ears—and yes, I promise next time to use the little plastic dosing cup rather than trying to play bartender and top off my Sidecar with the stuff.
January 17, 2006
“After a Particularly Unpleasant Bus Ride, a Shy and Timid Young Gentleman Named Willard Finally Comes Into His Own” (a protein wisdom microfiction)
“Excuse me, waitress…? Just what was it, exactly, that you didn’t understand about my request for NO FUCKING MAYONNAISE ON MY TURKEY FUCKING SANDWICH?” ~the end~
January 17, 2006
Identity politics are great and all, just so long as they, y’know, don’t get too uppity
From USA Today: Sen. Hillary Clinton on Monday blasted the Bush administration as “one of the worst” in U.S. history and compared the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to a plantation where dissenting voices are squelched. Speaking during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event, Clinton also offered an apology to a group of Hurricane Katrina survivors “on behalf of a government that left you behind, that turned its back on
January 16, 2006
The new, less “pedantic” protein wisdom: post number 4
The best things about Gummi Bears (aside from their adorable candy malleability), is that you can almost always keep them safely and snugly in your pants pockets—warm, soft, intimately embracing like a den of pied, tasty Ursus americanus treats… And better still—the chances that even one of the little fellas will become spooked and tear the thighmeat from your femur in strips of ragged marbled flesh, is exceedingly rare—particularly if
January 16, 2006
“Gore Assails Domestic Wiretapping Program”
Well, here we go again. Forgive the ABC/AP headline (the “wiretapping” Gore is “assailing” is foreign intel gathering, and not, as The AP/ABC would have you believe, “domestic wiretapping”—except in the most incidental and /or theoretically non-specific sense of the description (and as legally prescribed under FISA’s electronic surveillance definition). And not only that, but it is foreign intel gathering performed under the Constitutional auspices of the NSA (as a
January 16, 2006
My first brief conversation with the Ghost of Shelley Winters
Me: “Gosh. I was really quite sorry to hear about your passing, Ms Winters. I was an enormous fan of your work –”* Shelley Winters’ Ghost: “– Feh. Had I known they’d be serving such delicious brisket and potatoes I’d have kicked off years ago. I mean, kosher salt and rosemary!—can you believe it? Who knew?”
January 16, 2006
Blog Sorbet
**** Add Guinness and an episode of “The Rockford Files,” and voila! Perspective returns! See you all soon, I hope.