Just in case you didn’t get enough of 2008, scientists are going to give you a little more – one second more, to help ring in the new leap year of 2009. Great.
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Jerry Brown, our perennial knight, is leading a new charge to cripple the anti-environment Bush fireball sling. However, it’s very possible that to dismantle this weapon will now take at least a year under the new presidency; and that assumes Obama wants to. In the mean time we may lose more endangered species.
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We lost Eartha Kitt, Harold Pinter, Freddie Hubbard, and make up artist David Clark in December.
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California’s State Controller John Chiang is getting ready to issue IOU’s instead of paychecks, to some State employee and contractors. He also has been stuck in a Texas hospital with chest pains. Anxiety much? Get well, John.
In the mean time, the Guv is acting, with a new plan fresh out of the box today.
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The Israel –Gaza conflict has sparked a whole new wave of hostility, recrimination and hatred – among bloggers. In the interests of understanding the conflict some intrepid bloggers try to put out information for review, and others must attack.
I know I’m fed up with vituperative behavior. I get angry too; I want to hit, scream, run over, shoot down, pop heads open and generally spit upon the world at times. However, just because some others of us have elected a President whose favorite sport is sniping, doesn’t mean we have too. Hmmm. Or, at least we don’t have to take to the next level.
Even when it’s a great blog, I don’t’ want to have to ALWAYS prick myself on the thorns, just to get to the fruit of it, or more especially, it’s commenters. You know what? Eventually I won’t. I’ve lived in this man’s world too long to not see this chest bumping for what it is. Take up racquet ball boys, and practice good manners, or prepare to lose readers.
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Speaking of abuse, Ellie Nesler died.
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All year we complained about the bad coverage in the MSM, but we won’t get a newspaper subscription. I don’t know how you get good reporters if you won’t pay the people who hire them. We can talk about whether they are dinosaurs until our veins pop, but we haven’t replaced them with anything better yet. Every single blogger I read quotes from them at some point. Support your sources. Which reminds me, I have a few subscriptions to get, and dues to pay today.
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Along with a lot of other folks, if 458,000 Google hits are any judge, I’ve still got a lot of other ritual things to do as well. The list is endless: Mop, dust wax, wash, remove, dispose, organize. I’ll be too darn tired to see any Waterford balls dropping tonight.
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