Listen, My Children...

Voting Machines

The Chronicle reports on voting machine problems, but you'd think they'd report on local ones: I hear reports that some local machines were not working, leading to long lines in places.

Voting

Voting in Houston at Lamar HS went very nicely.  Everyone, if you know what you'll vote for and why, go vote!

Charlie Daniels

Rocks.

Those Palestinians

I was wrong about what I said below, it would appear -- apparently, they were:

Five Israeli officers, dressed as Palestinians, jumping for joy, while filming 9/11 as it ocurred

Dancing in the Streets

I wonder, with CNN and all them showing replays of their coverage from 5 years ago, if they'll show the footage they haven't played since then?  Muslim commoners celebrating in the streets, anyone?

Blaming Bush

CNN reports that Americans blame Bush for 9/11.  (Amazing prescience, that, to plan -- from the early 1990s -- because you know who will start term as president in 2001 and what his policies will be.)  However, that's not so surprising when you think of how many people you meet from day to day who say we wouldn't have been attacked in 2001 if we hadn't started an oil-stealing war against Iraq....

News Roundup

Why post one myself, when other people do it for me?  There, a roundup of opinion across Germany on the infamous cartoons, freedoms in Turkey, and other issues.

Holidays

I've got houseguests and I'm going out of town in a few days, so: Merry Christmas, all (or unhappy December 25th, or whatever makes you feel better -- whatever you'd prefer, though, I do hope you're merry then!), and see you next year.

All the same men are manufactured!

My favorite?

Four points and are seven years here, that one that had gotten our
parents in this a new nation continent, understood in the freedom and
in the demand dedicated that all the same men are manufactured.

Of course, poor Ogden Nash suffers greatly:

The sugar refinery is elegant, but the alcoholic beverage is faster.

Mitt Romney

Incidentally, I still like Mitt Romney. I'm all for good-looking, casually life-saving governors.