Blah blah blah blogging
Blogging will lead you to an early death!
No! Wait a minute! Blogging is good for you!
Wait. Really. Here’s the scoop: If you’re a popular blogger, you’ll get tabbed for a Big Internet Site Job, get hooked on exposing too much of yourself, ruin your personal relationships, have a nervous breakdown, think about leaving blogging entirely, and end up pretty much where you were to begin with, except (maybe) older and wiser.
Of course, we all know blogging isn’t real writing.
So much for blogging.
On a different subject entirely, can someone explain to me why everyone is (gasp!) shocked and horrified that Clinton, while discussing the ins and outs of primaries, mentioned Bobby Kennedy’s assassination? I mean, she also mentioned a few other situations where the nomination wasn’t set until after the convention. Dudes, she isn’t advocating assassinating Obama. Really. She may have been stupid to say such a thing, given how tender and delicate everyone’s sensitivities are these days about any perceived slight or threat or…whatever it was. I swear, these days people just need to keep their yaps shut about everything, because someone is going to be (gasp!) shocked and horrified.
The Chinese adoption community has been rocked by the news that Steven Curtis Chapman’s youngest daughter was accidentally run over by one of their sons. I read the story and my heart froze; his daughter was five years old. Once again, motherhood has changed my outlook–I would have read it and sympathized before, but now I read it and the hair on the back of my neck rises because OmegaDotter is six years old and scatterbrained and I could so easily see her paying attention to something else and running right behind the car as OmegaDad pulls out of the driveway.
The Chapman family is accepting donations to the Shaohannah’s Hope Foundation in Maria’s name.
Science-y stuff:
Jupiter has given birth to a brand new bouncing baby Red Spot.
I want to give one of these T-shirts to OmegaBro. Or OmegaDad. Or both. Or maybe one for myself. Go check ‘em out.
This is the night sky I miss from Small Mountain University Town.
Lisa got it first: Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s Karn Evil 9
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