Monthly Archives: February 2006
Bloggers Bare All
No offense to Robert Scoble or Shel Israel, but — book promotion stunt or not — naked bloggers is near the top of my list of things I never need to see. (With the exception of Hunter.)
Queer Families in the Crosshairs
I haven’t mentioned it yet, but at the beginning of the year we started the process for our second adoption. (Even before Parker was born, we agreed we wanted two kids, and that we’d do the second adoption after the … Continue reading
Posted in Adoption, Current Events, Family, General, Parenting, Politics
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WoW Me Again.
Birthday no. 37 is apparently all about play. After months away from World of Warcraft, I fired up my account again and have been playing for the last couple of days. (I realized I could just unsubscribe if I wasn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Computer Games, Life
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A Brokeback Review
We finally saw Brokeback Mountain. The first time, Parker got a case of the scoots and we got called to pick him up just before showtime. The second time, it snowed, and out babysitter was trapped in Virginia. But the … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
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Bertucci’s Bombs
Pardon me, but I vent for a minute or two. I should have known better, really. Dining while vegetarian is enough of a challenge, even now when most restaurants have two or three vegetarian items on the menu. But dieting … Continue reading
Posted in Food and Drink, Life
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Laurel Hester, R.I.P.
After a brave fight, well fought on behalf of justice, Laurel Hester lost her battle with cancer. Lt. Laurel Hester died Saturday morning at her home only weeks after winning a long battle with Ocean County freeholders over who would … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Family, Gay Rights, Politics
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Sidebar Additions
Just a housekeeping note. I’ve added a couple of things to the left sidebar. There’s now a PayPal button at tge top, just in case anyone wants to drop something in the tip jar. Whatever goes in there will go … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Life
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What’s Up with Focus on the Family?
Things just get curiouser and curiouser. I’ve posted before about how James Dobson and Jerry Falwell have both made strangely supportive statements about gay & lesbian equality in the past year or so. Now I come across this. Focus on … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Family, Gay Rights, Politics, Religion
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All the Pegs in the Same Hole
I have a confession to make. Everything I am today, I shouldn’t be. Everything I have today, I shouldn’t have. I should never have graduated from high school, let alone gone to college and enjoyed any of the benefits of … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Education
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Sorry You Shot Me
What a world we live in, where a guy gets shot and then apologizes to the guy who shot him .
Posted in Current Events
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WordPress 2.0 & WYSIWYG, Revisited
A while back I wrote about my frustration that there’s no spellcheck in the WordPress 2.0 WYSIWYG. It kind of rendered the WYSIWYG useless to me, so I had to come up with a workaround involving the Google toolbar and … Continue reading
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More Friday Random Ten
OK. I admit it. This meme is a easy way to get something posted on a Friday when I’m particularly busy. And since the blog was broken most of the morning, nothing got posted, and I’m probalby not going to … Continue reading
Posted in Memes, Music
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Stuck in the Middle
Well, that didn’t take long. The afterglow of my “Stroking the Middle of the Blogosphere” had just worn off when a co-worker mentioned to me the New Yorker article about the A-List bloggers, “Blogs to Riches – The Haves and … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Media, Politics
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Koufax: Best Writing
The nominations for the Koufax Awards are still rolling out, and I just checked out the nominees for Best Writing. I was pleased to see some of my favorites (some of whom also read and comment here) on the list. … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs
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Whole Lotta Shootin’ Going On?
I haven’t said much yet about the whole Cheney shooting incident. After all, there are plenty of people working ovetime to flog that one for all it’s worth. (And well they should.) I have my own questions. Was Cheney drinking? … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Crime, Current Events, Politics
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