tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85527212009-07-06T12:02:37.952-04:00musings tossed into the black void of cyberspace...ACMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05150889888692992746noreply@blogger.comBlogger3006125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8552721.post-54739188140939265062009-07-06T11:59:00.002-04:002009-07-06T12:02:37.960-04:00

Apparently the updated Senate plans for health reform are much more reasonable in terms of cost than the initial estimates (based on incomplete plans). Perhaps this will dissipate some of the panic that has been driving so many legislators to flee this very popular and desperately needed effort. Here's hoping!(via Atrios)

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Speck spends a little floor time with Dad -- here they've been looking at photos on her camera, but clearly there were blocks, puzzles, and other fun just before this...(Also note the armload of critter pals)

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The subject line of this post seems like a truism, and yet in our society, dads who spend substantial time with their children, while increasingly common (at least in my generation and younger), are still treated as a bit of an amusing anomaly. This does a disservice to all involved.Scour the parenting forums on the Internet and you’ll find the common lament that "DH" (darling husband) expects a

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Coleman to respect unanimous court verdict and let Franken be seated as Senator. Can we get back to the real world now?

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Via Tom Tomorrow, a cartoon that had me going hah hah hah hah waaaaaahhhhhh (descends into weeping). This is why I never finish his books, but usually buy them. Sigh.

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Two bits having nothing obvious to do with one another...A selection of classic 8-bit video games rendered in Legos (stop-motion style). Fanatastic.My favorite of the many tributes being offered on the occasion of Michael Jackson's death: a montage of all the classic dancers who went before him, and from whom his classic jerky-smooth dance moves clearly derive. Includes clips of many folks we

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Too good to not share -- Speck photo from pal Don, from a brunch this past weekend at Michele's. Good time all 'round, and some bonus pics! yay!!flirting with the camera...

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In the morning I musedIt won't return, the magic of lifeit won't returnSuddenly in my house the sunbecame alive for meand the table with bread on itgoldand the flower on the tableand the glassesgoldAnd what happened to the sadnessIn the sadness too, radiance.- Zelda Schneurson MishkovskyThe Spectacular Difference(via whiskey river)

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Hilarious: 13 year old kid reviews a 30 year old Sony Walkman -- a real glimpse into how much we old fogies take for granted about older technologies...

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I'm beyond disappointed in the news from the Obama folks that they appear to be dodging the Gitmo issue -- I'm positively devastated that there appears to be nobody left in a position of power who cares about fundamental human rights and decency. Years of deprivation and torment, without hope of appeal, fairness, the possibility of release... is this what America wants to stand for? Even the

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Man, it's gotten hot suddenly around here, I guess because the sun has somewhat emerged (after two months of clouds and rain), and the difference is a shock. Luckily for Speck, she has a little play sink in our back patio for splashing, slurping, playing in the running water, and generally getting cooler...(Waving a pitcher to free every drop onto her toes.)Update: Video of sink-related

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Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. - George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-

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Looks like unemployment numbers are starting to look funny (not in a hah-hah way) because people are starting to exhaust their unemployment benefits (and thus are no longer claiming compensation) rather than finding new jobs. This is ugly stuff -- soup lines, anyone??(via Atrios)

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To listen to the recent coverage, Congress is finding it nearly impossible to put together any sort of healthcare bill at all, let alone to face the possibility of funding a public option. But it's not their constituents that they're afraid of -- the public supports a public option by a huge margin!The poll found that most Americans would be willing to pay higher taxes so everyone could have

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Just a little more chat about how identical behavior is found acceptable in men and offensive in women, documented this time in Judge Sotomayor:Somehow it's everyday for a male judge to refer to his own experience in making a judgement, but the idea that a woman might do the same (let alone, that her experience might have led her to a different conclusion) is biased, biased, help and run away!

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A little amalgam of Speck at the playground, covering a host of beloved activities . . . (all at 15 months old)Ohmygoodness, chalk! Sidewalk chalk! Yay!Not really sipping, just sniffing the chalky fumes...Lots of walking, with and without assistance...And, of course, the swings. Wheeee!And to see what we look like heading out to the playground, piled up with potential fun, have a look at this! A

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From Hunter's twitter stream:GOP health care reform plan delayed three days to add glitter, stickers of cats.tee hee...

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Healthcare reform: DOA? What's needed is big and bold and scary and probably expensive. I have no idea whether our nervous and compromise-driven legislature can do something like that (at least without plague victims dying on their doorsteps)...(via Talking Points Memo)

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The Onion makes another semifunny funny...

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Inspired, as usual: Weird Al combines classic rock with contemporary shopping, in Craig's List. Really well done.(via a tweet from NowThis)Heck, I'd been wondering what ol' Al was up to. Some answers in video: White and Nerdy (rap), or, um, Amish Paradise (hip hop, and very odd as video, at least), Smells Like Nirvana (heh, makes fun of their incomprehensible lyrics), Bedrock Anthem (Chili

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This squirrel, that is. Ridiculous! (Almost enough to make me reexamine my hatred of the varmints that dig in my flower pots, but not quite...)

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One hates to see any headline that starts with comparisons between Obama Administration behavior and that of his predecessor, especially the sort that seems so cleary doomed to legal challenge. Transparency, ho!

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I have a lot of tabs saved for eventual blogging, but all my comings and goings from work and baby and what-all leave me squeezed for non-photographic blogging. Anyway, I noticed a theme (!) among several tabs, resulting in this deep post. How (and why) to teach a kid to argue. I suspect that Speck will have to master these skills (and early appreciation for sarcasm) to survive in our household

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From Hunter, of course...It's difficult to remember, during times like this, that the real threat to the nation is gay Americans in committed relationships.Heh...

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Speck's that is, not mine. Will hold off on more photos, but have to share this video of Speck demonstrating her prowess at walking, a mere week after she first walked more than a step or two... (in pursuit of the camera, of course!) Whoot!

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