Some of you who know me best know that I do volunteer work for IMOM.org, a charity that helps finance urgent veterinary care for pets whose families can’t afford it. Stating today, you will occasionally see some of those needy pets here on my blog. Gotta get the word out, right? Right.
Eme is a chocolate lab with luxating patellas. A very painful condition.
Blogger Billmon has posted this call for a Popular Front — a progressive movement united to deafeat Bush and stem the conservative tide.
Well, I don’t know kids. That could be the end for blog-city.com. They sent out a message yesterday that they were down for upgrading. Now there’s nothing. 404 from the home page, and every blog is blank. Not so much as an oil slick on the water, and bubbles have stopped breaking on the surface.
I’m glad I had a duplicate blog on blogspot, or I’d be bummed. So it goes. Somebody throw over a wreath, and we’re outta here.
OK, we’ve all heard the hubbub in the foreground about who might run with Kerry. Edwards, Richardson, maybe Dean. How’s this for an idea: Bill Clinton. The constitutionality of it is being discussed on blogs like The Volokh Conspiracy.
If the premise is that the constitution doesn’t prevent Clinton from being elected VP, because he’s only ineligible to be elected president but it’s OK for him to be president if not elected again. See? Well, that’s all fine and good, though I can’t imagine why he’d want to play second fiddle. But for me this raises a scary question, and maybe somebody knows the answer with me having to research it:
Does the constitution preclude someone from being elected VP if they aren’t a natural born citizen?
I couldn’t help myself. I looked it up. Whew. I don’t think Ahhnold Schwartzengroper can be elected VP. Can you imagine him as president of the US? Eeesh. You think Bush has got a big head, you ain’t seen nuthin’.
For my fellow dog lovers, a beautiful poem.
Dan Gillmor’s eJournal on Silicon Valley has a great paragraph on the Right Wing’s Attacks on Science.
Well, it looks like John Kerry has the democratic nomination all locked up for himself. Which is a good thing. I think he’s the man to face 2nd Lt. Bush. In fact, he may epitomize the one thing that Bush has been avoiding for thirty years: a Vietnam veteran.
As someone who grew up in the sixties and felt, obliquely and with a child’s understanding, the broken-heartedness of the Vietnam time, it seems strange but fitting to me that the generation that dropped out has grown up. The torch has been passed, hasn’t it?
When they came home and stepped off the busses and planes, many of them were met with derision and scorn. What a bad dream for America. But now one of those soldiers has viable intentions for the White House. It’s beautiful, if you think about it.
I’ve always thought that Watership Down has got to be one of the best book titles ever. Up there with To Kill a Mockingbird. Anyway, my regular blog on Blog-City is down for server upgrading. I don’t know when it’s going back, and when it comes back I’m not sure I’ll like the results. Blog-city is the Cadillac of easy blogs; many premium features, but no spell check. We’ll see if the new version has spell check, yes? Mean time, I’m still here.
I wonder how far We The People are going to let the secular establishment push the institutions of our faith. I’m not a Roman Catholic, but I am a Christian. I believe that The Church is the living pressence of the Living God in this world. And the government should keep its filthy mits off the church. [news]
Billmon takes an excellent look at gay marriage as a civil rights issue.
Got a case of The Mondays? Feel like taking a break for a little chuckle? This is funny. Give it time to load. no candy
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