End of Silence

As some of you may know, my father-in-law works for Morning Edition. He’s been part of the production staff almost since the show’s inception and sometimes reads the voiceover translations for the stories that air. This morning, he was the voice of an Iraqi kidnapped at gunpoint (it’s the first story listed on the linked [...]

Daily Kos has an interesting dissection of the presidential wink. Watch for it tonight.
Burnt Orange Report points out that after being linked by several blogs earlier this week, Alan Keyes staff has removed campaign pictures that include his daughter, Maya. The word is that she’s a lesbian, which, of course, doesn’t quite fit with her [...]

This is the kind of shit that the GOP is sending out in states like West Virginia and Arkansas. It’s not even worth dignifying with a response, but you know that there are plenty of people who will see the inflammatory (and completely false) graphic, read the issues, of which they probably disagree with at [...]

Time for another meme (via Sean):
Stuff in bold I’ve actually done.
01. Bought everyone in the pub a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula.
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said ‘I love you’ and meant it
09. Hugged a [...]

Ok, so I’m a little late with the second ACL post.
On Friday, we checked out Trout Fishing in America, Rebirth Brass Band, and Franz Ferdinand. Trout Fishing was great. This was our first time checking them out live since starting to listen to them a year or so ago. I’d heard about the height discrepancy [...]

The reviews of this year’s ACL Festival are appearing on the blogs of various friends. I’ll have a more proper review with a picture or two up tonight along with some shots of the kids in the login required section of the site.
The common complaint this year seems to be that there were just too [...]

I didn’t get to finish my rant last night because my sister called in the middle of it looking for car advice. Somebody hit her a few weeks ago and the insurance company decided to total the car since it’s too old to be worth fixing. It looks like she’s going to get a Protege. [...]

While I’ve been unimpressed with the Kerry campaign since the democratic convention, I must say that things are not looking good for ol’ G.W. despite his slight surge in the polls.
In the the time since the republican convention, questions have been raised again about his national guard service (although the documents causing the stir appear [...]

Preparations for this week’s ACL Festival have begun in earnest. We’ve got an out-of-town guest arriving tomorrow and we secured babysitting for Saturday night so we can all see The Pixies without tired kids. Now that I’ve realized that Franz Ferdinand is responsible for “Take Me Out”, which I’ve been hearing a lot on the [...]

Last night, Jon Stewart and the Daily Show continued their campaign against CNN Crossfire and Chicago-Sun Times commentator Robert Novak in a segment called Douchebag of Liberty and bestowed the Congressional Medal of Douchebaggery on him. His outing of a CIA agent for partisan reasons, refusal to reveal his source for the outing, recent editorial [...]