I was just curious how many of you watched CBS Sunday Morning. I stumbled on to it several months ago, and it quickly has become a Sunday morning ritual. It reminds me of NPR on television.
Good stuff.
Archives for October 2007
Stanford/USC
How To Wear a Lapel Pin
Since we are talking about Craig again, it was brought to my attention by a commenter (my apologies if this has been covered elsewhere) that there is an excellent source for how to wear a lapel pin:
Should anyone question Obama regarding his decision to wear or not wear a lapel pin, make sure you work in this photograph of the appropriate way to wear a lapel pin. I bet after that happens a few times, it will be amazing how unconcerned Republicans are with Obama’s choice of accessories.
*** Update ***
Tom DeLay also knows how to wear a lapel pin. So does Randall “Duke” Cunningham. Bob Ney has a lapel pin, too!
No It Wouldn’t
Steve Benen, upon learning that the new plan to deal with Craig is to censure both Craig and Vitter:
As far as I can tell, that last part, about censuring Vitter, is new. The GOP has struggled for weeks to explain why Craig’s conduct is, in Mitch McConnell’s word, “unforgivable,” while Vitter’s sex scandals are trivial and inconsequential. If the party is willing to censure both, that would be a pleasant surprise.
That wouldn’t be a pleasant surprise at all. It would be compounding stupid. The damage has been done to these men already, in Craig’s case he has paid his debt to society, and enough with people prying into their private lives (tawdry as they may be).
The reason liberals and libertarians and even moderate Republicans were making a stink out of the whole mess was the hypocrisy- the hypocrisy of these flawed men, conservative Republicans, acting like moralizing chumps by daytime and Deuce Bigelow by night, and the hypocrisy of the Republican party freaking out about Craig while cheering on Vitters.
The last damned thing we want to do is to encourage the GOP to become more a stronghold for moralizing blowhards, and pretending that censure for these men for private transgressions is a “pleasant surprise” is a horrible thing to do. It’s wrong politically, and it is just flat out distasteful on a personal level. Encouraging censure for these men is tantamount to telling Dobson and the blowhards “You are right,” when what we should be telling them to do is to STFU and do something Christian.
Just Out of Curiosity
How many of you were aware that you could not substitute dish soap with dishwasher detergent, and that if you did, you would have six inches of suds across the entire kitchen floor?
Because I sure as hell didn’t.
Open Thread
Apparently we need one. Jcricket.
The Organ That Gets No Respect
At long last, science has discovered a purpose for the appendix! Apparently it cultures gut bacteria that help us digest food.
If the appendix exists for a reason, there’s hope yet for Hugh Hewitt.