Birmingham Blues

Have your guts scooped for Jesus! Read the Green Knight’s take on Focus on the Family’s Halloween suggestions. If Dobson is supposed to be such an expert on children, why doesn’t he know that they are concrete thinkers? My children have watched me scoop pumpkin guts, and it’s not a pretty [...]

Click on over to Red Hair & Black Leather and check out Jeff’s Top Ten Reasons Why Trick-or-Treating Is Better Than Sex.

This is some scary stuff. Alito is already being hailed as both a nice guy and a conservative judicial activist. If he and Scalia are on the Supreme Court together, they can “good-cop, bad-cop” the other justices until they turn back the clock on individual rights.
From Think Progress:
ALITO WOULD OVERTURN ROE V. WADE: [...]

(AFP/Luke Frazza)
Bush has wasted no time nominating Samuel Alito as a replacement for Harriet Miers. That look on his face gives me the creeps. He looks like he’s about to sprout fangs and sink them into Alito’s neck. I expect he needs to replenish his life force after last week.
This may [...]

I feel safer already. Could the Bush administration be any more incompetent?
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration has missed dozens of deadlines set by Congress after the Sept. 11 attacks for developing ways to protect airplanes, ships and railways from terrorists.
A plan to defend ships and ports from attack is six months overdue. Rules [...]

The indictments include two counts of perjury, two counts of making false statements, and one count of obstruction of justice — all felonies. More as it develops.
UPDATE: Cheney is at the center of the charges. He’d better hope Libby works out a plea.
UPDATE #2: Libby has resigned. No surprise [...]

Prosecutor Ronnie Earle has subpoenaed 2002 emails from several of Tom DeLay’s associates who are also under indictment for an illegal campaign finance scheme.
AUSTIN, Texas - Three indicted associates of Republican U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay are being asked to hand over to a Texas prosecutor all their e-mails from 2002 in an investigation into an [...]

It looks like yes on Libby and not yet on Rove. Announcements coming at noon eastern time.

The bug has moved on to me and to the 12-year-old daughter. Last night was very long….
So far the husband has avoided it, but that means he has to wait on the rest of us. Seven-year-old daughter is out of school today because of teacher conferences. She is well now, and will [...]

George Takei, who played Ensign through Captain Sulu in Star Trek, has come out. I am a complete Star Trek nerd. The original TV series looks cheesy these days, but it was way ahead of its time in tackling controversial issues, race being a big one. Apparently, the show’s setting in [...]