In a scathing column in The New York Press, Michelangelo Signorile justifiably takes Mary Cheney to task, not just for her silence in the face of her father’s reverse on the issue of who should determine the legality of gay relationships, but for her complicity in this position by joining the vice president’s re-election campaign. […]
Came across this link to MyWorld66 from JaseWells.com. Select the countries you’ve visited, and it will create a map with those countries marked in red. Here’s mine. Sadly, for someone who thought he was so worldly, I’ve only visited 13 countries so far. I need to get moving. create your own visited country map I […]
Yesterday I stayed home from work, feeling a little under the weather; my stomach and gut had been bothering me since the weekend, when I had attributed it to the rich food Jeff and I had been eating, and Monday when I ascribed it to the greasy Johnny Rockets burger and fries. On Tuesday night, […]
I was eating some Triscuits with my soup tonight at dinner, and on the back of the box noticed that one recipe called for, and I quote, “KRAFT Roasted Garlic Flavor Cheddar Pasteurized Process Cheese Food.” I rather suspect that anything that has to assert in its name that it’s food, probably isn’t. And anything […]
Well, it’s been a while since I’ve participated in a blog meme, but as Mac at Go Fish notes, this one’s about books and therefore was difficult to resist. The items in bold are the books/series I’ve read. No, I don’t know why these particular books were chosen, that’s just the way this meme was […]
I posted this originally just as a quicklink on my serendipity blog, but decided I wanted to note it here on elf-reflection, too. As the president prepares to unveil in his State of the Union speech tonight his administration’s election-year $1.5 billion dollar plan to “rescue marriage,” and as the push for a constitutional amendment […]
As Jeff noted at Rebel Prince, he and I took advantage over the weekend of DC’s Restaurant Week 2004, in which a number of the metro area’s tonier restaurants offered 3-course prix fixe lunches for $20.04 and dinners for $30.04. Because we found out about it so late in the week, by Saturday morning when […]
Last night I started playing the LucasArts/Bioware RPG set in the Star Wars universe, “Knights of the Old Republic.” Wow! I’m just barely into the game, which has received multiple awards for game of the year for 2003, and I’m so hooked on it already. The voice acting is incredible, and the storyline seems well-written […]
Earlier this week I had my annual review (“Performance Appraisal Report,” or “PAR,” in State Department parlance) with my supervisor. Granted, this is the government so I’m told there tends to be a fair amount of the equivalent of grade inflation, but even so I was very pleased that I received the highest possible rating […]
Everyone else at work yesterday was making grand plans for today in their hope that the predicted snowfall would cause the federal government to close today. I was much more cautious, noting that the predicted accummulation of 1 to 3 inches wasn’t likely to shut down the government, just make the commute even longer and […]