As someone who went to the college that DeWitt Wallace funded for many years, the Reader's Digest was a bit of a joke. The college grew more liberal than he could stand and he cut the college off. Took years to get back in his good graces and then after he died, it took Elliott Spitzer as NYAG to threaten to sue the trustees of the grandiose funds set up in his will, to release the assets set aside to benefit many large NY charities and this one, small liberal arts college, so that they could diversify and not just take earnings from Reader's Digest stock. For which, as an alum, I shall be forever grateful to Mr. Spitzer.
Anyone who doesn't think that baby medical advice goes through phases, should look at old Dr. Spock books. Or the example of my father, who practiced as a pediatrician from 1954-69 and then became an anesthesiologist after doing a residency at the Mayo Clinic.
When I had my first child in 1985, he told me I would never be able to nurse because I didn't have big enough breasts. That was the thinking in 1969. When my babies got vomiting and diarrhea, he recommended milk products to soothe their stomachs, exactly the opposite from what my current pediatrician told me.
I have a dear friend who is the founder and director of a nationally recognized children's dance school. She is adamant that placing babies on their backs is absolutely the wrongest thing to do for their muscular development at a very early age--makes turtles out of them--she says.
And, yes, I locked my baby in the car after no. 2 was born and I was going to the store. Luckily it was dark and rainy and I realized as soon as I had walked away that I had done it. But it was very scary and all too close to the other incidents.
Turkey Dressing
3 eggs
1tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
3 cups washed popcorn (uncooked0
1 green pepper, sliced
1 cup diced celery
garlic and salt to taste
Mix ingredients well and stuff turkey. Bake at 350, until popcorn pops and blows the ass off the turkey.
Joe Biden is doing some fantastic spinning, post-debate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QdT-xMe2-s
Sarah Palin has not been heard from once.
I'm generally a lurker here, but wanted to offer my wishes for a speedy recovery as well.
Who was it that wrote that it is in the little things, that the greater truths are revealed?
www.talkingpointsmemo.com has a story up that the picture of the building behind McCain when he was speaking was the Walter Reed middle school in LA, not Walter Reed Hospital.
Here's an interesting piece about Biden. I didn't know his first wife and baby daughter were killed in a car accident right after he was first elected to the Senate. He commuted DAILY back to Delaware to be with his young sons.
http://tinyurl.com/68am2u
He's also one of the poorest members of the Senate.
http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/overview.php?type=W&year=2006&filter=S&sort=A
When I was a starving student at Vrije Universiteit Brussel '78-79, only when we were flush, would we have some Chimay. Wonderful beer. Never liked Stella all that much.
But these days, in Seattle, we have Mac N Jack's African Amber and I am way content. Best US brew hands down.
Don't know about Justice, but as an enforcement attorney at the SEC for 11 years, I was under the impression that as an attorney, I had fewer civil service protections than regular bureaucrats. I would think the same would hold true at DoJ
OT. FISA passed. You can see how your Senators voted here
But you forget, James @#16, funerals bring in lots of nonCatholics, many of whom are Protestant and used to following a weekly preprint of the liturgy w/ all the prayers and responses found therein. So no, not all funeral attendees will have their own missals, unless attendance is strictly controlled.
Well, Honda is introducing a hydrogen fueled car, the Clarity:
http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/16/autos/honda_zev.ap/index.htm?cnn=yes
No gas involved.
#22, ethan: don't watch "what the frak" then at the BSG site. It was rather entertaining though and got one ready for the new season.
from the NYT Q&A:
...
Q: Did Buckley ever change his 1950’s pro-Segregation stance? —Bill
A: See above. He did, strenuously. He debated George Wallace quite strenuously in the late 1960s. It may seem odd, but Buckley, whose parents were both Southerners, actually inherited views on race that were fairly progressive for his time and place.
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Q: How would you characterize in general Mr. Buckley’s relationship with the Jewish American community? What about his relationship with leading American Jews (e.g. the Kristols) commonly identified as neocons? —Michael Presant
A: In the 1950s, when American conservatism still bore the taint of anti-Semitism, Bill Buckley moved forcefully to erase it. One important step was banning anti-Semitic writers from National Review, the magazine he founded in 1955. Many of his allies included Jews — from Marvin Liebman, the publicist who helped organize conservative rallies and events, through his great friend Richard M. Clurman (of Time magazine) and also, as you point out, neoconservatives like Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz. Buckley was also a champion of Henry Kissinger, who remained one of his dearest friends.
Q: What was Buckley’s view of the current Bush administration? What was his opinion of the performance artist (my term) wing of the Republican party —e.g., Rush Limbaugh or Anne Coulter? —Richard French
A: He was most distressed by it and once said if the United States had a parliamentary system, President Bush would be subject to a “no confidence†vote. He was highly critical of the war in Iraq and wrote eloquent columns on the subject in his last years. He liked Rush Limbaugh, who was published in National Review, but was more skeptical of Ann Coulter, whose book “Treason†he reviewed.
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Q: I understand that in the 1960s Mr Buckley publicly backed Southern segregationists even though he crusaded against anti-Semitism. How did he reconcile this difference in his own mind? Did he ever formally renounce or apologize for his backing of the segrationists? —John Fuller
A: In the 1950s Buckley did indeed support segregationists in the South but later changed his views. He wept when he learned of the Birmingham church bombing that killed four black children. Later he became an admirer of Martin Luther King.
Given that rightwing nut case Hal Turner is calling for someone to off Obama on his website, this is deadly serious.
http://www.halturnershow.com/
Let me quote him, which is under the photo of Obama in Somali dress:
"Is THIS the type of guy you want running America? I Don't!
In fact, I'm starting to come to the realization that it may be up to a sole person, acting alone, to make certain this guy is never allowed to hold the most powerful office in the world. Sorry it may have to be that way, but it may."
My letter to MSNBC (and thanks for the heads up Patrick--I've also posted this at Kos):
Dear MSNBC:
I am a 55 year old attorney in Seattle, WA. I graduated from law school in 1976 from the University of Kentucky, My class was the first class to have more that 20% of its members as women. Despite this, I was subject to abuse by certain members of my class and their spouses because I, as a woman, was taking up a space that should by rights have gone to a male. Furthermore, my first week in law school, the graduate dorm I was living in had a barbeque Friday night. Another graduate student attempted to engage me in conversation and enquired about what I was in school for. When I responded that I was in law school, his retort was quite telling about the tenor of those times, 35 years ago. He said, "W'all Ah d'nt know legal secitaries had to go to law skoo! (southern accent intended)" And he meant it.
It is unfortunate that even with the passage of 35 years, we still have folks in life such as that yokel at the barbeque. It is even more unfortunate that one of them, Chris Matthews, is in such a high position. Given his stated and repeated prejudice against women in positions of power, you do yourself no favors by keeping him in the public eye. As a result, I plan to boycott MSNBC until he is fired.
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This one may have been mentioned upstream, but it is currently in use with the first year medical students at the Univ. of WA:
Oh, Oh, Oh, To Touch And Feel Veronica's Giant Vagina And Hymen
(Olfactory, Optic, Occularmotor, Troclear, Trigeminal, Abducent, Facial, Vestibulocochlear, Glossopharyngeal, Vagus, Accessory, Hypoglossal)
courtesy of my daughter, class of 2011.
The Longest Engagement is my touchstone to the Great War. When I was hiking in the Languedoc region of France back in 2002, I saw the monuments in the little villages to their war dead. My grandfather came to France from rural NW Ohio in 1918 and spent his time riding shotgun on the outside of ambulances, telling the drivers how to drive in the dead of night, as they could not turn on their headlights. He came home to a new child, bringing fancy embroided silk aprons for his wife and his mother (the one to his mother I have framed behind glass) Thank you for your annual memorial as it enables me to reflect upon my family's history.
What is it about the Inland Empire that produces these sorts of politicians? Before Larry Craig, there was Spokane mayor and former Washington Senate Majority leader Jim West who was turned in by young lovers. Now this yahoo. Is it the water perchance?
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