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Monday, March 31st, 2008It’s been awhile. Want to play? Click here. I’m not feeling too snarky today, so I have to go for the cute.
Originally uploaded by Autistico.
Resistance Is Futile. You Will Be Assimilated.
It’s been awhile. Want to play? Click here. I’m not feeling too snarky today, so I have to go for the cute.
Originally uploaded by Autistico.
Resistance Is Futile. You Will Be Assimilated.
Eighteen years and counting.
Better late than never, I finally catch up with the big news story of the day. Don Siegelman will be released on bond tomorrow morning, pending appeal of his conviction.
The [11th Circuit Court] judges wrote that Siegelman met both requirements for an appeal bond: He is not a flight risk and his appeal raises [...]
I know this isn’t a news flash to anyone here, but when the economy goes bad, the people who suffer first and most are those who didn’t have much to start with. The Birmingham News has a feature today detailing shortages and financial struggles at food banks here in town and around the country. [...]
Birmingham SHOUT, the city’s gay and lesbian film festival, is this Saturday, March 29, at WorkPlay. Click here for information on this year’s films. I’m particularly intrigued by the documentary “Chasing the Devil: Inside the Ex-Gay Movement”, which follows the paths of four people who claim they’ve actually changed their orientation from gay [...]
Fred Thompson, erstwhile savior of the Republican party, has officially returned to the acting profession. Despite his demonstrated inability to act interested in being President in real life, I’m sure he’ll be quite successful.
Good luck, Fred! Maybe someone will hire you to play a candidate.
…since George W. Bush chose to invade a country that had not attacked us, using phony links to al-Qaeda and fears of non-existent weapons of mass destruction. Five years since Dick Cheney told us our soldiers would be greeted as liberators. Five years since Donald Rumsfeld told us the war would last “six [...]
Bruce Hilton, father of Tom and Steve Hilton of If I Ran the Zoo, passed away on Thursday. Their mother Virginia died in October 2007. Both of the Reverends Hilton worked on the front lines of the civil rights movement and continued to advocate for social and economic justice throughout their lives. [...]
Okay, for all the, um, one of you clamoring for show pictures, here are a couple of the tree. The costume is incredible! I wish I had a good shot from the back, which shows when I’m “destroyed” and “fallen” in Act Two. Not only merely dead, but really most sincerely dead. [...]
The US House held a rare closed session last night to discuss the pending FISA bill that would regulate government spying on phone calls and emails. Ironically, according to the Rachel Maddow Show, House members had to wait several hours to start the session so the chamber could be swept for bugs.
George W. Bush, [...]