Archive for June, 2009

Wow…what a week!

I’m not even sure where to really start, it’s all sort of overwhelming.
Governor Sanford of SC – You, sir, are a douchebag.  And that’s as nicely as I could put it.  First off, to cheat on your wife…that’s grounds for castration.  I’m sorry, I’m lenient on a lot of things, but that is not one [...]

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More hell in a handbasket

It seems as though every time I disappear from my blogging duties for a while, the world becomes a little more dim, in every sense of the word.  Dim in its enlightenment, dim in its joy, dim in its desire for human equality.  Last time, I blamed it on you Intertubes, but I know it’s [...]

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Memorial

Today would’ve been Melisa Augustson’s birthday.  She would’ve been 32.  She was a bright spot in the universe and we are all less fortunate by not having her in this world.  She was taken from this life way before her time in a most violent way and it was a sad day for all.
We miss [...]

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Fear of flying

Let me begin this post by saying I feel the deepest of sympathies with families of the people lost on Air France 447.  I can think of very few things that would be more terrifying than to have someone on the other end of the phone tell me that a person I love has disappeared.  [...]

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