So…be careful out there.
Bwahahahahahaha!…
DISTAL MUSE – OBSERVATIONS, OPINIONS, EPHEMERA, & VIEWS
Just ’cause.
And I didn’t want to put up something predictable, like a full moon or a werewolf or blood spatter.
Happy Hallowe’en. Be safe.…
I know, I said no more political posts till after the election, but I couldn’t NOT put this one up. Before you freak out, watch all the way through. Then, I’m sure, no matter who you’re voting for, everyone will have a reason to freak out.
Oh, and one more thing. Check this post by P.Z. Myers. This pretty well sums up my feelings as well. I’ve had a low-level concern about the congressional elections longer and more consistently than the presidential campaign, but really, we ought to be worrying more about local elective offices even more—offices which traditionally get the lowest voter interest.…
Hard upon the heals of my previous panegyric, a placeholder.
Last week Donna and I enjoined our first dinner train, the Columbia Star out of—you guessed it—Columbia, Missouri. Here’s a photograph and a promise that I will shortly be writing about it at more length. Meanwhile, have a pleasant next few days.…
Another GOP candidate has stirred the hornet’s nest of women’s rights and abortion by making one of the most blatantly absurd statements— no, that’s inaccurate, mainly because there is no way to gauge “most absurd” in this context. So many of them have come out and said shit everyone knew they were thinking but till recently had managed to either not say or have couched in more sophisticated and euphemistic language.
Richard Mourdock said that any pregnancy resulting from rape is “God’s intent.”
How to delicately respond to this…?
Oh, fuckit. This is bullshit.
The basic assumption of Biblical literalism these asshats have been using is a compendium of tribal law no one would approve across the board anymore because we don’t believe that shit anymore!…
I have a new short story in this anthology. really, you should go buy one. I mean, I’m not the only one in it, there are many stories by some really good writers. They even went so far as to do this rather interesting book trailer:
Look who else is in this!
Erik Lundy
John Rector
Caleb J. Ross
Hilary Davidson
Aaron Michael Morales
Matthew C. Funk
Kevin Lynn Helmick
John Hornor Jacobs
Jane Bradley
Matthew McBride
Cortright McMeel
Fred Venturini
Gordon Highland
David James Keaton
Nic Young
Jason Makansi
Robert J. Randisi & Christine Matthews
Jesus Angel Garcia
Tim Lane
Nate Flexer
Glenn Gray
Duane Swierczynski
Jon McGoran
Les Edgerton
Frank Bill
Mark W.…
Again, I didn’t watch. We had a movie from the library to finish and some reading to do and I was beat.
Nevertheless, I’ve been listening to recaps and doing a little post-debate viewing and I have a couple of comments, if only to round out the trend here.
“Syria is Iran’s route to the sea.”
Romney has been saying this from time to time and it is somewhat baffling. A look at a map shows the problem—a slice of northern Iraq separates the borders of Iran and Syria, not to mention that Iran already has considerable access to the Arabian Sea. …
I won’t be posting for a couple of days, so I thought I would take this opportunity to put up a new image that I’m offering for sale through November.
The print will be (roughly) 11 X 14 on a 16 X 20 background, mounted on foamcore. $150.00 plus shipping and handling. Those interested, email me at info@marktiedemann.com for purchase details.
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So Romney claims he asked for qualified female candidates for cabinet positions when he became governor. He made it sound as if he was appalled that all the appointees were men. They handed him “binders full of women” when he asked.
Which is a lie. Those binders already existed, put together by a group called MassGAP prior to his election as governor to address exactly this problem—the lack of women in high positions in state government—which were then handed to him by this group upon his election. He didn’t ask for it, he was given it.
He subsequently appointed women to close to 40% of his cabinet. …
I only want to say a couple of things about the debate (which I also did not watch, but have been listening to and reading highlights from all morning). So, like…Obama won, did he? Huh.
Romney, however anyone feels about him as candidate of choice, apparently had to do a lot of backpedaling and saying things that he’s going to have a lot of trouble with if elected. Particularly about women.
Never mind the “binders full of women” remark, which is the kind of unfortunate remark anyone might make under pressure.
Here’s the problem with Mitt Romney. As president, he will be the head of the GOP. …