Molly Ivins was just a couple years older than I am and and it was too damn early for her to die. After reading her columns for decades I look around and there is nobody out there to take her place. In all this time I have never ceased either to laugh at her bone deep wit or to be surprised at her ability to not turn mean. Not ready to say farewell, still at the NO! stage.
Not exactly on target, but could be seen as connected to the Lovecraftian right...is there anyone out there who has made it all the way through the 92-page 2004 Republican platform and broken the actual points out of the reams of rhetoric praising Dear Leader? And if so, would you point me to the site?
I'm pretty good at surfing the net, but I'll be damned if I can find this, so I'm calling in the big guns here.
Thanks.
can't do one recommendation--not possible, but #1 would be Peter Beagle's The Folk of the Air-- good again and again
--a second for Emma Bull's War for the Oaks as well as her Bone Dance and also recommend Diana Paxson's The White Raven
--Bordertown by Terri Windling is a joy
--absolutely second McKinley's the Blue Sword and the Hero and the Crown (multiple reading pleasure for those of us who re-read, great female protagonists--and the guys are good too.)
--and ya gotta read Callahan's Crosstime Saloon by Spider Robinson, and all the sequels. He writes lots of good stuff, but these will make you weep with laughter.
I'm gonna stop now...just take my fingers off the keyboard and tiptoe away. Won't even think about all the books I haven't mentioned, won't lie awake thinking about them....
Linkmeister: Re: "Paper ballots from 100 may go uncounted..."--thanks for the follow-up. The link takes me to the Sun which lets me know that the url may have changed. So I searched by the reporter's name and up came pages of stories, but curiously not the one you cite from May 20th. Not listed at all. Hmmmmm. Wonder what happened there?
[http://www.baltimoresun.com/search/dispatcher.front?page=2&target=article&Query=David+Nitkin] takes you to the relevant page.
Nutbar conspiracy theory, anyone?
RE: James D. Macdonald ::: (view all by) ::: June 11, 2004, 02:36 PM:
"They can't refuse me the right to vote, correct? What if I refuse to use an electronic voting machine? Their argument would be that I refused my own right to vote by refusing the current technology, but I don't know if that would hold up.
This recently came up.
In at least one district people who weren't comfortable with the new electronic voting machines were allowed the choice of using paper ballots. Those ballots were then destroyed uncounted."
This is such a great discussion, but sorry, I am fixated on this claim, and the link is broken. Can anyone say more? Give me a working link? The voters were given paper ballots which were then were destroyed uncounted?? I am stuck here in awe and fury.
My son, who went to a Waldorf school in his early years, learned (because of the curriculum) to read later than many kids do and did not develop a love for reading for its own sake until I gave him the first Harry Potter. He inhaled it, and every one subsequently. One of them hit the stores right in the middle of a big algebra exam review and I changed the dust jacket and happily read the whole thing right in front of him, since I knew if I let him have it, algebra would be out the window. That trick only works once, but I pass it on for any parent in need--either of a good read or a diversion.
I owe Rowling a huge debt of gratitude since before Harry I worried that I had spawned that thing more feared than a Republican--a non-reader! But all is now well and at 18, his reading habits seem well in place and constant, his choices diverse and he is still looking forward to the next HP.
500 points for Gryffindor!
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