Archive for August, 2006

from my morning pages, this week:

Sunday, August 13th, 2006

On the day filled with news of the thwarted terror plot in London and the subsequent bannings on all flights of: books, liquids, solids, gasses, plasmas, electronics, hand luggage, Platonic solids, subversive ideas, bad haircuts, childhood keepsakes, showtunes, and mismatched socks, I wrote the following line.
“I don’t know what the right answer is in our […]

Cold toes and a quiet house

Sunday, August 13th, 2006

It’s a bright sunday morning, and I’ve got that bleary, head-on-backwards feeling that comes from having been up most of the night. Some work which needed to be done during a maintenance window came up earlier in the week, and I scheduled it for last night at midnight. I’ve had relatively few of […]

With apologies to everyone I’ve ever sat with at a seder

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

If Joe Lieberman had only taken to the Senate floor during Clinton’s nonsensical impeachment proceedings to bloviate and bluster at the President ‘for having extramarital relations with an employee half his age … in the vicinity of the Oval Office. Such behavior is not just inappropriate. It is immoral.’ … Daiyenu.
If Joe Lieberman had only […]

It couldn’t have happened to a nicer conservative, hawkish, turncoat, jackass

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

courant.com: ELECTION NEWS …
Look! It appears that being a hyper-conservative Democrat who supports misguided wars and blathers on and on about non-issues actually doesn’t pay! (At least, in Connecticut, tonight.)

U.S. Senate - - Dem Primary
733 of 748 Precincts Reporting - 97.99%
Name Party Votes Pct
Lamont, Ned […]

Just like that

Monday, August 7th, 2006

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… my new all-time favorite picture of Kate.