Monthly Archives: September 2008

Not Worthy To Unloose

30th
Sep. × ’08
By Roderick

I just heard James Taylor’s cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne.” Abomination! Abomination!

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I Warm So Easy So Reason Me Loose

30th
Sep. × ’08
By Roderick

I just heard Sarah Palin saying that she doesn’t blame all human behaviour on global warming. Okay, let’s be charitable and assume she meant that the other way around. But then she said we should stop arguing about what causes global warming and just focus on how to fix it. As Rachel Maddow pointed out [...]

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Risky Business

30th
Sep. × ’08
By Roderick

Just saw Keith Olbermann opining that it’s racist to blame the mortgage crisis on a rules change that encouraged the making of riskier loans in order to attract black customers; this, proclaimed Keith, is the equivalent of “blaming the crisis on black people.” Um, no it isn’t. If the law forces you to make risky [...]

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Fire and Water

27th
Sep. × ’08
By Roderick

Recently I asked if anyone could provide a link to a certain This Modern World cartoon. Charles found it, and some other good ones too. Check ’em out! In other news, there’s a sign here at the Hilton in Orange Beach that says “Employees are required to wash your hands before leaving pool area.” You [...]

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Where’s the Fire, Buddy?; or, Big in Wetumpka

26th
Sep. × ’08
By Roderick

So this morning I’m having breakfast at the hotel and a guy comes over to my table to greet me and shake my hand. At first I assume this is someone connected with the conference whose face I’ve forgotten. But no, he’s a complete stranger; he turns out to be a fire chief from Wetumpka, [...]

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I Thought the Law, and the Law Won

26th
Sep. × ’08
By Roderick

Greetings from Orange Beach! I got in tonight at 9:30, a bit later than I’d intended, but thereon hangs a tale. I gave a midterm in class today, and I’d planned to leave right after. But while I was invigilating (as the British say) the midterm, I was reading Michael Thompson’s new book Life and [...]

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