Planting Bug's Bit Me

I still wanted to do more cleanup in the yard before I planted but haven't finished yet. But I couldn't wait anymore. Last week I went to King's nursery and got some petunias for the window boxes, and some perennial shrub-y flower-y things and planted them around the cherry tree. Tomorrow I'm going back to Kings to plant some flowering sages in the front yard along the neighbors fence. The idea is to slowly encroach inward on the lawn. Since we're going to have the climate of L. A. or Baja pretty soon, I
should start planting drought-tolerant stuff now.

A Consensus Opinion

I think we've finally come to an agreement. 81% of us agree that this country is on the wrong track. Bush has polled in the low thirties for almost a year.

Dick Cheney said that history will vindicate this administration. Returns are now coming in and they're not good. 61% of historians rate Bush as the Worst President Ever. An amazing 98% rate him a failure.

John McCain wants to continue this war and these policies. How much easier could the choice in November get?

McCain and Religion

Because everybody should see this.

Cool Palaeo Stuff

There was an article on ScienceDaily about how scientists found 385 fossils in a piece of opaque amber using magnetic tomography. I didn't even know you could get opaque amber.

Cool Astronomy Stuff

Lots of interesting stories today about little tiny black holes, baby planets and giant binary stars orbiting each other so closely they look like an enormous glowing peanut!

Entertainment

I ground off another couple of microns of tooth enamel today reading about John Yoo's torture memo. The pudgy, smirking sociopath wrote 81 pages of legalese in an attempt to justify the Bush Administration's pursuit of torture in Iraq and Guantanamo. The gist of it was, "we can do this because we say we can, so there."

These people must all be closet sadists. They must get tautly tumescent at the thought of naked prisoners struggling with their heads held under water. There have been volumes written as to why the Bush administration wanted Iraq so bad. Maybe it wasn't about oil or the Rapture or one-upping the old man. Maybe they just wanted some videos to watch by themselves, with some lotion and paper towels.

Keep your eyes on the prize, people!

With all the attention on the Hillary vs. Obama battle a lot of progressive are overheating. They're wasting their energy trashing each other. Let's remember what this battle is really about. There's not that much difference, policy-wise between Hillary and Obama. They're both charismatic and capable. Meanwhile, the Republicans have an angry old man for a candidate. A man who's personally endured the horror of war and wants to inflict that horror on others. We cannot let this happen. Take a deep breath, let the voters in the upcoming primaries have their say and prepare for the real battle in November.