Week of 10/15 thru 10/21/06
When we returned from NJ yesterday afternoon, I decided to try walking around the house without the brace or anything else wrapping my right foot (but with the walking stick) for the first time since spraining the ankle, and am rather pleased with the results. I'll still be wearing the brace to go out, particularly considering the two flights of stairs that separate our apartment from the ground (which I've gone back to descending by putting "bad foot, good foot" on each step in succession), but it's nice to have the foot unencumbered during the evening and night-time hours. Plus, our landlord has now turned the heat on, so we're pretty comfy. Time to see what other Liberal Coalition members have been up to this past week:
• Bora names his all-time favorite science shows, passes along a funny and somewhat gross article called The Ambien Cookbook, and cites a study showing a relationship between weight and how many hours of sleep children get, which makes little sense to me as all the drugs in anti-sleep agents tend to make people wiry and jittery and most wiry, jittery people I've known are skinny.
• Bryant tears apart a column by Bret Prelutsky about the "religious left." I don't get the phrase about the Gospel According to James Carville either. What's that about, sleeping with the enemy or something? I always thought the religious left consisted of folks who actually followed Jesus' teachings about ministering to the poor and such, rather than worshipping Mammon and calling him Jesus.
• Chris tells us a little more about himself.
• Echidne thanks Bob Herbert for introducing to mainstream discourse something else that bloggers have been pointing out all along, the relationship between school massacres and misogyny.
• John reports on the new crop of winter/holiday stamps.
• Speaking of snow, Jude has a pictorial of the freak Friday the 13th snowstorm that hit Buffalo.
• Kenneth answers his fan mail as only he can, and finds it as interesting as I do that the standards of evidence for conservatives are so much lower than those for liberals. I guess if you're making up the rules, you can keep moving the goalposts.
• Maru shakes her head at the hypocrisy of declaring October "National Domestic Violence Awareness Month" then headlining a fund-raiser for a Congressman accused of choking his mistress. Character counts!
• Moi decries a badly-done study on autism and TV.
• Mustang Bobby is probably preaching to the choir when he reminds us all that "even a cursory examination of the foundation of the laws of this country and of Western civilization teaches us that we have a system that is dedicated to justice, not revenge." Of course, "mercy" is a dirty word nowadays according to the religious right.
• Natalie wishes Bob Weir a happy birthday and fondly remembers CBGB's. I have no fond memories of that club at all, since when it was around I made it a point not to venture too far into what I considered a relatively unsafe part of the East Village (where I was working at the time), and I've never been a club-goer anyway.
• Steve G manages to pen a nice ode to the Mets without saying "Yankees suck" even once (I didn't think he had it in him!), reminds us that Diebold isn't the only way Republicans are trying to control the vote, and calls Madonna's non-orphaned black child adoption what it is.
• upyernoz presents some Arabic tongue twisters.
Well, it's mid-morning now, time to remove the air cast again and let my leg and foot breathe for awhile before going out this afternoon.
• Bora names his all-time favorite science shows, passes along a funny and somewhat gross article called The Ambien Cookbook, and cites a study showing a relationship between weight and how many hours of sleep children get, which makes little sense to me as all the drugs in anti-sleep agents tend to make people wiry and jittery and most wiry, jittery people I've known are skinny.
• Bryant tears apart a column by Bret Prelutsky about the "religious left." I don't get the phrase about the Gospel According to James Carville either. What's that about, sleeping with the enemy or something? I always thought the religious left consisted of folks who actually followed Jesus' teachings about ministering to the poor and such, rather than worshipping Mammon and calling him Jesus.
• Chris tells us a little more about himself.
• Echidne thanks Bob Herbert for introducing to mainstream discourse something else that bloggers have been pointing out all along, the relationship between school massacres and misogyny.
• John reports on the new crop of winter/holiday stamps.
• Speaking of snow, Jude has a pictorial of the freak Friday the 13th snowstorm that hit Buffalo.
• Kenneth answers his fan mail as only he can, and finds it as interesting as I do that the standards of evidence for conservatives are so much lower than those for liberals. I guess if you're making up the rules, you can keep moving the goalposts.
• Maru shakes her head at the hypocrisy of declaring October "National Domestic Violence Awareness Month" then headlining a fund-raiser for a Congressman accused of choking his mistress. Character counts!
• Moi decries a badly-done study on autism and TV.
• Mustang Bobby is probably preaching to the choir when he reminds us all that "even a cursory examination of the foundation of the laws of this country and of Western civilization teaches us that we have a system that is dedicated to justice, not revenge." Of course, "mercy" is a dirty word nowadays according to the religious right.
• Natalie wishes Bob Weir a happy birthday and fondly remembers CBGB's. I have no fond memories of that club at all, since when it was around I made it a point not to venture too far into what I considered a relatively unsafe part of the East Village (where I was working at the time), and I've never been a club-goer anyway.
• Steve G manages to pen a nice ode to the Mets without saying "Yankees suck" even once (I didn't think he had it in him!), reminds us that Diebold isn't the only way Republicans are trying to control the vote, and calls Madonna's non-orphaned black child adoption what it is.
• upyernoz presents some Arabic tongue twisters.
Well, it's mid-morning now, time to remove the air cast again and let my leg and foot breathe for awhile before going out this afternoon.
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