So, Tropical Storm Hannah went up the eastern sea board. We had humidity. And, rain. Lots of rain.
More people watched the RNC than the DNC on tv? Ok, fine, you had the curiosity factor going, since people were still going, “Sarah Who?” about the Palin as VP choice and maybe people were still in Olympics withdrawal with the DNC on tv (but only on PBS and C-Span with much more coverage – I’m not going to wonder how much the FOX/CNN/MSNBC folks really put in it). But, it’s not really cheering me up that more watched the RNC.
So, a few weeks ago, I linked to an article about how science ought to consider issues of ethics. Yeah, well, the point is that the big ass super collider is going to be turned on and maybe the microscopic black holes could suck us alive. Or maybe help us find those missing socks that the black holes keep sucking anyway.
Well, anyway, black holes would probably kill us, not just suck us in.
Yeah, I’m really excited to find my missing socks. Not so excited about the end of the world due to black holes or uncontrolled singularities; pretty unsure if I really want o know how the world began (not if it means causing the world to end – as seen in an episode of “Eureka” – where the experiment to recreate the start of the universe rendered the smart people stupid and almost destroys the universe. oops.)
On Sept. 14, 2008, it’s going to be the Brooklyn Book Festival! I’m going to miss it this year due to my vacation in Chicago, maybe someone else can go and let me know how it goes?
Politics… I ought to stay away from politics. But… I can’t.
In this linked article, “Whatever Happened to Family Values?”, Slate’s Jacob Weisberg raises the excellent point that this isn’t Dan Quayle’s GOP anymore; the party that criticized tv’s Murphy Brown for choosing to be a single mom would now praise her for being… pro-life (ironically, Murphy Brown made a choice – presumably, she had one). Down with absolutism, I say; Weisberg’s right that absolutism ended up tossing all those other so-called values – which supposedly were pretty important too.
Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick has tips to Joe Biden on how to debate Sarah Palin – treat her like a man, Lithwick says; I think I’m going to have to agree with that; if you go in scared, you don’t look good for it.
Newsweek’s Andrew Romano on how Joe Biden may have already gotten on the right track with regards to Palin; Biden works with women in the Senate; it’s not like he can’t figure this out; umm, hopefully?
I don’t consider myself a liberal, but in this column of NY Times’ Bob Herbert, he highlights why liberals should be proud – they made great contributions to American history; they made history. (considering that the whole point of being progressive or liberal is to take action, should we be surprised? Conservatives are about status quo – not necessarily about action, at least not usually).