Sarah Vowell is on McSweeney’s today with the best rememberance of John Ritter I’ve seen so far.
(Admittedly, she gets bonus points for making it a Buffy-centric tribute)
Wired has a commentary from author/professor Richard Dawkins pushing some new lingo for godlessness. Henceforth please refer to atheists and agnostics as “brights”.
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Here’s a story from a freelance WSJ reporter (among other jobs) about being homeless for the last couple years. It mentions how easy it is to become homeless. I read between the lines (behind the lines?) and am concerned how much effort and mental stability it takes to not lose yourself altogether. It sounds like Les is on his way back to normal life, but I cannot imagine that a person with coping problems would be able to pull off a come-back.
At first I wasn’t eligible for food stamps because I had more than $2,000 (the maximum allowed to qualify) to my name and because I thought my truck was worth too much. But eventually, the money ran out and I found out that my truck, with more than 170,000 miles on it now, was worth less than the $4,650 the food stamp program allows. I got anywhere from nothing to $139 a month in food stamps depending on my freelance income for the month. I had several glitches on food stamp amounts due to errors by bureaucrats, but I appealed and won.
John’s endorsement of PVP is spot on. And finally, I’ve found the question to Scott Adam’s answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything (Answer is 42)
The question is “How many beers can I drink in a day”
(Truth is I loved this panel and just wanted to get it on the blog)
If you’ve been to Great Falls Park you know that the Potomac River can be life-threatening, even on a calm day.
Isabel’s storm surge provided ideal conditions for expert kayakers this weekend, but was a little less friendly to hippie dumbasses:
“With the river at these levels, you really can’t count on someone rescuing you. You don’t want to be risking other people’s lives.”
That’s exactly what happened later in the day, when a young man in a swimsuit and puka shell necklace but no life vest or helmet jumped into the water.
Frank Jackson, a 19-year-old kayaker from Bethesda, raced across the churning water and hauled the unidentified swimmer onto his small Pyranha Storm rodeo boat, said two kayakers on the water with him.”
Bartley in the WSJ:
Read more!That is to say, base Democrats think of themselves as the best people: the most intelligent and informed, the most public spirited, the most morally pure. This self-image has become more than a little shopworn over the years, and now George Bush’s conservative Republicans threaten to strip it away. Inevitably such Democrats are angry.