You deserve a break today.
Any suggestions on the best way to convert a .mkv file to .avi? Can Nero do this?
Late Evening Open Thread
More of this please.
Jason Linkins over at HuffPost points to a story about some sanity bubbling to the surface in Arizona. It seems a local Sheriff is not happy about recent legislation:
Dupnik called the law “racist” and “disgusting” and “stupid” and, in his “nuanced judgment” could not be enforced without mandatory racial profiling. Dupnik’s reckoning of the legal issue is that he’s just as likely to be sued for racial profiling as he is for not doing enough racial profiling, so he’s standing pat, and will not enforce the new law.
But the best part was this (emphasis added):
Asked by local news station KGUN9 what he thought the solution to the law was, Dupnik replied, “The November election.”
He’s right of course, the only way to stop this neo-Confederate Teabaggers of Wingnutopia is to get out and vote.
Cheers
dengre
Still the King
Everyone say Happy Birthday to Tunch, who is eight years old today!
Someone will be getting some tuna in a little bit.
Dead To Her
I’ve got nothing, and it’s open thread time, so let’s talk about my Mother. She’s 74 years old, brown (US citizen from Mexican parents), and tough as nails. She spends her winters in a small town near Tucson, a few miles from where she grew up.
Since the Arizona immigration law passed, I’ve been thinking about what’s going to happen the first time she’s pulled over and asked for her papers. The results of my thought experiment aren’t pretty. To say that she’ll be unintimidated by the local cops is a gross understatement. My concern is for the officer who pulls her over, as well as the police department and town that she’ll sue. Life gets a little dull for the retired, and the family joke is that Mom has a titanium grudge carrier, so I expect she’ll do her part to bankrupt her local municipality, and enjoy doing it.
Mom’s a proud Goldwater Republican. She was happy with Reagan, voted for Bush II in 2000 (but not in ’04), and has long been active in the local Republican party. But I can say with absolute certainty that she will not vote for a Republican, for any office, ever again. She’s the proudest person I know–proud of her family, her achievements in life, and her Mexican heritage. And, whatever else this new law is, it is profoundly disrespectful. I don’t know if this law will kill the Republican party in Arizona, but I can assure you that they’re already dead to her.
Open Thread
For those of you in my neck of the woods (WV), it is going to frost tonight so make sure you cover your plants and/or bring them in.
That is all. I’m tuckered out.
Also, one of the dogs from on of my favorite reader pics has passed away:
I’ve had hundreds of reader pics sent in, and posted a lot of them, but hands down, besides the dog in a bucket, this is my favorite. I think before I said they reminded me of Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. At any rate, RIP, Onion. Although I have been informed that Tater has a new friend to pal around with:
I’m off to fold clothes and relax in front of the boob tube.
*** Update ***
I’ve also added “A dilettante blog from the great progressive state of West Virginia” to the rotating tagline because it is so full of win.
Early Morning Open Thread: … Star Stuff!
Commentor Bago posted this link last night, as a ‘rebuttal’ to Professor Hawking’s alien-alarums…
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I had not previously realized how much material the American Museum of Natural History, beloved fantasia-land and wonder-box of my childhood, has posted on YouTube. If y’all never hear from me again, it’s because I’m off wandering its virtual corridors, mouth agape with delight.
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