It's been one thing after another since last Wednesday. Some has been good, some has been bad, I'm just hoping to get back into some sort of routine again. Here are a few odds and ends to start the week.
-A couple of thunderstorms Friday evening spelled doom for any shot of a normal weekend. The first one to slide through wasn't severe, but it saturated the ground pretty thoroughly. The second one was the one that did the damage. That one brought torrential rain and some fairly strong winds. The combination did in trees and power lines all around my neck of the woods. I had intermittent power and internet failures all weekend. On top of that, there was so much rain in so little time that I ended up with 2" of water in my utility room from the window wells filling up. The windows on the north and south held. The two on the east side didn't. The floor drain eventually took care of it, but the fact that it was slow means I need to get the main line rooted out. I was hoping I'd have to spend $125 getting that done again.
-The hand is doing quite well. So well in fact, that the physical therapist felt very comfortable in beating the shit out of it this morning. It's a good news/bad news thing I guess.
-Still not smoking. It's been four weeks now.
He's not really a journalist, but he played one at WaPo: I really don't have a whole lot to say about David Weigel being forced to resignfrom his beat covering the right. I thought it was a bizarre and utterly clueless choice right from the start, but I really didn't care that much. Weigel blew his credibility with me a long, long, time ago. He is one of a number of young and talented writers, left and right, who have not yet figured out the difference between intelligence and wisdom, nor have they figured out that to avoid lying to their readers, they have to stop lying to themselves.
-I was going to write a long piece defending Gen Stan McChrystal last week, but then I noticed a funny thing: The good general wasn't defending himself. Where were the protests about context or misattributions of quotes? Dude, if you're not going to defend yourself, don't expect anyone else to either. I suspect there's more to the picture than meets the eye. Here's a piece from The Independent that says just that and it was really McChrystal's opposition to Obama's timeline that did him in. Maybe, maybe not. I read another theory that says Rolling Stone lied to McChrystal and staff about what was on the record and what was fact checked. We'll see.
-Now, time to see what my blog friends have been up to.
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