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We’re slowly making our weaving way back to the Washington, DC area — we decided to loop through Vermont, a state I’d never visited but the state where “all our coffee comes from”:http://www.greenmountaincoffee.com/. I wanted to drive through Montpelier, but I really expected to *drive through*. We ended staying almost four hours to poke around downtown and [...]
Damaging winds and large hail forcast today in the Washington, DC area. We’ve had weather like this for two weeks now. God is mad because Bush won’t go see Al Gore’s movie.
!(inset)http://static.flickr.com/37/122496352_1954981cd2_m.jpg! There was a “War on Christians” conference here in Washington, DC a little while back. You may have heard something about it — this is the event where Reverend Rick Scarborough blamed all of Tom DeLay’s legal troubles on DeLay’s alledged dedication to Christianity.
Elizabeth Castelli has an “excellent piece in the Revealer”:http://www.therevealer.org/archives/main_story_002500.php about the conference, giving [...]
I see that Bush has already had to back off his SOTU promise to replace 75% of Middle-Eastern oil imports with renewable resources.
bq. One day after President Bush vowed to reduce America’s dependence on Middle East oil by cutting imports from there 75 percent by 2025, his energy secretary and national economic adviser said Wednesday [...]
Today at World o’ Crap there’s an “excellent example of wingnut thin-skinned touchiness”:http://blogs.salon.com/0002874/2004/08/13.html#a1075. It’s all good, but scroll to point three, where Julie Gunderson complains in the same editorial that 1) liberals insist people be “politically correct” and 2) liberals were mean to her when she stated her opinion. (You can read her full Washington [...]