December 2007 Twenty-eight posts

• 31-Dec-2007

  
  Happy New Year! Random image, for a not bad year. Lovely mellow night here with the kids, in and out at parties. HAPPY NEW YEAR Y’ALL!!!

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• 31-Dec-2007

  
  From April I like this photo by Grace Davis very much. It’s from dinner at Olio E Limone prior to going to see Sarah Vowell and David Sedaris perform.

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• 31-Dec-2007
  Presidential Hopefuls Can’t Help Lying What is wrong with these clowns!?!? Sorting Truth From Campaign Fiction Mitt Romney says he “saw” his father “march” with Martin Luther King Jr. Rudolph W. Giuliani claims that he is one of the “five best-known Americans in the world.” According to John McCain, the Constitution established the United States as a “Christian nation.” Ron...

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• 30-Dec-2007
  Quiet Faith in Man This post by Dave Segovia, who I’ve mentioned before, VINCENT, THOMAS, and ME has been knocking about in my brain for a few weeks. Much as we worry about the toxins and pollutants and sure as they do us damage, science and medicine end up tasked with correcting the wrongs, they sort of do the...

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• 30-Dec-2007
  Lovely Animation: Chinese Translation Here’s someone at The Stranger gushing about it. I like it.
• 30-Dec-2007
  Healing Moral Fissures at DoD Retired General McCaffrey’s comments about Iraq after doing an extensive weeklong visit there, including leading with leadership and common people are heartening, particularly the bit about healing the moral stance of the Department of Defense. I really like the terse, matter-of-fact style. It reminds me a bit of the style in which Dave Ramsey gives...

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• 30-Dec-2007

  
  Ronald McDonald Originally uploaded by Bill Rini Bill Rini was in Thailand for Christmas and took a lot of great photos. but I really like this one of a statue of Ronald McDonald with his hands in what I think might be a Buddhist greeting. Different cultures are different!
• 28-Dec-2007
  Rain, can’t drive in. So the lore in Los Angeles is that people in Los Angeles can’t drive in the rain. It feels so true, everyone says it. Even I say it, and I have lived in enough places to know that things are the same all over. Anyway, one of my favorite blogs, Militant Angeleno did some research...

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• 28-Dec-2007
  Video Killed The Radio Star Something I missed not being in San Diego. Excellent, inspiring, beautiful cover of the one-hit-wonder. The date on the YouTube video is 2006. The band “The Wrong Trousers” is active on their myspace: http://www.thewrongtrousersband.com/. via Waxy, where many good things come from

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• 28-Dec-2007
  Happy Holidays! I like how this animation screwed with my expectations. Supernifty!

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