The whole DUI thread that evolved in comments to the previous post reminds me of a conversation I once had with Dick Cheney in an undisclosed location. He wasn’t too impressed with the new, lower blood-alcohol standards either.
“You call that ‘impaired’?” he said. “In my day a DUI used to mean something. I wasn’t just blowing some wussy 0.9 — my blood type was single malt. Kids these days …”
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Here’s a remarkable moment in time: Woody Allen interviews Billy Graham.
In the second part of the interview, they discuss a trade: Billy will watch one of Woody’s movies and Woody will attend one of Billy’s crusades. I wonder whatever became of that bargain.
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This picture by artist Chris Jordan depicts 8 million toothpicks, which he says is “equal to the number of trees harvested in the U.S. every month to make the paper for mail-order catalogs” (Via).
Spending $1 to register with the Direct Marketing Association’s opt-out Mail Preference Service is a pretty good investment.
Co-op America has some further suggestions about What you can do to stop junk mail.
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In the UK, some Good News from the Good News people:
“Evangelicals strike more moderate tone over gay rights“
“Who would Jesus discriminate against? ask pro-gay evangelicals“
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Who was this written about?
The … president impressed me as someone sincerely devout in his religious faith, yet rather superficial in his understanding and inclined to twist his faith tradition in ways to correspond with his preconceived ideological positions. He was rather evasive when it came to specific questions and was not terribly coherent, relying more on platitudes than analysis, and would tend to get his facts wrong.
Answer here. (via Road to Surfdom)
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Here’s a first-rate article from The New York Times. The link here is not to highlight Newton, N.J., Mayor Thea Unhoch’s hollow grandstanding, but because of the byline. Aimee Harris was, until, August, a colleague of mine at the paper. The timing of her well-deserved new gig at the Times made it seem even more like a late-season call-up from the big league club, and those of us back on the AA squad are proud of her for getting to The Show.
(I realize that, as a blogger, I’m supposed to be seething with resentment for the “MSM,” with particular contempt for the flagship paper of record. But there’s also a lot more to the Times than just Jayson Blair, Judy Miller and David Brooks.)
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I haven’t seen much follow-up on the Tri-Valley Central School story. The local non-local paper hasn’t reported much more, but one columnist weighs in.
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