Yesterday, Mother Nature was a jerk:
Today, she redeems herself:
Archive - April 2005
AirBeagleApril (snow) Showers
You’ve GOT to be $%@*#$@ kidding me …: ‘Today: Occasional snow. Steady temperature around 36. Breezy, with a north northwest wind between 22 and 26 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Chance of...
News Roundup
« Gay Iranian Man Commits Suicide After Britain Denies Immigration Plea » « Texas Fascists Move to Destroy Gay Foster Families » « Santa Fe, NM, prepares for Hatred...
Alaska National Oil Company Refuge
The Imperial House of Corporate Representatives passed a bill permitting drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge yesterday. « Let’s just see what this little bill does », shall we? 1...
Well, There Ya Go
Quote of the Day: ‘I’m a radical. I’m a real extremist. I don’t want to impeach judges. I want to impale them.’ —Michael Schwartz, Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn’s chief of staff, as...
Heil Benedict!
So, a few days after the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Konzentrationslagers Ravensbrueck and Buchenwald, and on the anniversary of Waco and Oklahoma City, 117 men in red dresses have decided to elect as Pope a...
Light Sighted at End of Tunnel
It’s Frank’s final week of Grad School Hell. Four more days, folks, four more days, then it’s ‘free at last, free at last …’ But I should let him speak for himself. Er, maybe next...
Deathbed Dollars
While we’re all a bit tired of poor Terri Schiavo (let her rest in peace), I say we keep screaming about this one and hang it squarely on the Fascist FunDumbMentalists’ heads … like a flaming rubber...
Back From Blue State Hell
Yes, dear friends, I’m still alive and haven’t dropped off the end of the earth. But you could see the end from where I was: Oklahoma. Okiehoma. Oh my. Parent’s 50th anniversary was the occasion and I...
Return of the Birds
Well, the weather’s been fabulous (if a bit chilly) the past few days. I think we’ve seen the last of the snow. I could be proven wrong, but I doubt it. It’s very pleasant here in the spring — in...
Finish Line Approaching Fast
We went through the first instance of the term-end ritual of professor evaluations this morning in my Preserving Information class, filling in circles on Scantron forms with stubby pencils to register our feelings about...
Wishy-Washy Weather
More unpredictable Michigan weather, though I have the impression that this is about the end of it for a few months. Yesterday it got up to 77 degrees and was warm and even muggy. Today it was overcast, chilly, and not...
Overheard in Ann Arbor
There’s a blog called «Overheard in New York ». If Ann Arbor had a similar blog, it would be somewhat more boring. Or maybe somewhat more pedantic. Intellectual Lecturer Type: “Maurizio’s...
In Which I Get My Gay Card Stamped
I discovered the « Scissor Sisters » last night. Got their album via iTunes today and burned it onto a CD for my road trip next week. Ooooo that Jake Shears!!!! Oooooo lala! I’m feeling tres...
Duly Noted
According to World Health Organization figures, on the same day that Terri Schiavo died and so-called Christians mourned her so-called ‘murder,’ 6,000 other human beings died from vaccine-preventable...
