Finally got around to setting up a YouTube account, and posted "A Civil Discussion" there. It doesn't look as good as the QuickTime versions, but it might get some additional exposure. Now that I've got an account I'll have to try and post some additional content...
A hawk stopped by our front yard this afternoon and hung out for a little while. I wasn't able to get great pictures of it, due to the amount of foliage, the screens on our windows, and...let's be frank, the filth on them. I spooked it opening the front door to get a better shot, and was lucky to get it in the frame at all. With any luck (s)he'll come back...
UPDATE: I'm told this is a red-shouldered hawk.
One of a handful of experimental photos I took today, putting a new lens and the new version of Aperture through their paces. This is the side of the Jittery Joe's building on Broad Street in Athens. The orange has been slightly goosed up, but it's otherwise untouched.
On Kung Fu Monkey today, I found the following:
Oooooooooooooh.
I'll admit that I still don't fully understand the beef that conservatives have with the Clintons, but I am fed up with Hillary's shenanigans. As Kos points out, Hillary "is losing by every metric possible." Yet she plows forward, puffing up McCain over Obama, through surrogates suggesting that Obama is benefitting from being black, and brazenly promoting the idea that she can win through super-delegates. The latter is what really kills me, because even if she could win that way, it would be perceived as blatantly undemocratic. I've never been thrilled with the idea of Hillary as president, but until recently I never would have questioned her political acumen. I shudder to think what this kind of tone-deaf attitude would lead to were she to make it to the White House.
Inspired by Scalzi's gift to Zeus, we decided to give the boys a catnip sock, too. Stuart took to it right away, and went into his usual trance, with Opie watching from the sidelines. I had to run some errands, so wasn't able to watch the whole show. When I got back, the sock had disappeared. Just before bedtime, I realized that opie was behind the CDs making shlurpy noises and occasionally shaking something. When I went to investigate what he had, I found a slightly damp catnip sock (yes, "ew")...god knows how long he spent sucking on the thing.
