Interesting events here last night, as an apparently pretty big underground transformer blew up, sending manhole covers flying and flames shooting up into the night sky. Good thing this isn’t New York City, or you know everybody would be flipped out over a terrorist attack. We’re not very high on the target list, though, so they just cut the power and put out the fire. Not a job I’d want – climbing down a manhole and hoping that the people from the power company were really, really sure they’d gotten the electricity shut down. Pretty fortunate that it happened on a Sunday night when nothing was going on (not that there’s a whole lot going on ever around here, but it’d kinda suck to be driving over a manhole when it exploded.
When I first briefly glanced at the headline, I thought Joe Arpaio had been gored by a bull. Sadly, it was somebody else. I wasn’t gonna look at the pictures after reading what happened, but, well, I finally did. One of those staring at a car wreck things, I guess. I hesitate to say that anybody deserves a horn through the throat, but, well, if you’re gonna torture and kill a 2,000 pound animal that can run, like, 35 miles an hour, I gotta say you’re both cruel and crazy. At least the fools at Pamploma aren’t cruel. Just stupid.
While the financial reform bill headed to conference doesn’t exactly have the blessing of Wall Street, folks in the financial sector are apparently pretty relieved that it doesn’t really do anything.
Speaking of not really doing anything, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is talking tough about BP, but not actually doing anything about them as oil – that may be un-cleanable – oozes into Louisiana’s wetlands, and the oil keeps gushing out more than a month since their drilling rig blew up (a month already? My how time flies). Well, that’s unfair, I guess. The Obama Administration did issue a moratorium on offshore oil drilling. For those wishing to expand their vocabulary, “moratorium” apparently means “business as usual,” as at least 17 permits (more than one every other day) have been issued since the “moratorium” went into effect.
Tonight is the series finale for Law and Order, which bows out after 20 years. Well, sort of. A new Law and Order LA will premiere in the fall (which I predict will be a flop; not the fall, the show), the SVU show will be back for another season, and I’m pretty sure that L&O or one of its spinoffs is on somewhere 24/7 (often at the same time).
Still it’ll be sad to the show that brought us Stephen Colbert as a murderous forger, a young Lewis Black with a Jewfro, and a then-unknown Phillip Seymour Hoffman and his lawyer, Samuel L Jackson.
Yes, I havewatched the show once or twice.
Oh well, time to shut all the doors and windows; it’s gonna be way too hot today.
The NY Post put a huge picture of the goring right on the front page, so I saw it. I’d rather not have. I think cruel and stupid id the perfect description of the matador pursuits.
From E. J. Dionne:
But I took no pleasure in Souder’s resignation from Congress last week after it was revealed that the conservative evangelical Republican had an affair with a part-time staffer. I always thought he was the real deal, both serious and thoughtful in his approach to religious and political questions. I disagreed with him on many things but not on everything.
I wrote about Souder for the first time in 1998 because he and Rep. Chaka Fattah, a liberal Democrat from Philadelphia, had pushed through legislation to help students from high-poverty schools go to college. I liked their forging a left-right alliance for a good cause at a moment when the nation was torn by the battle over Bill Clinton’s impeachment. Souder said at the time: “Christ is concerned about the needy and the hungry and the powerless and the hurting.” Good for him, I thought.
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So I do hope that Souder finds a way to work out his redemption. But it is precisely because this story hits me personally that I want to shout as forcefully as I can to my conservative Christian friends: Enough!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/23/AR2010052303827.html
Let’s Make a Deal is way better than Deal or No Deal. Zonk!
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The Arizona Department of Education recently began telling school districts that teachers whose spoken English it deems to be heavily accented or ungrammatical must be removed from classes for students still learning English.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703572504575213883276427528.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_5
The Clutter Family now available on iTunes
Ken Salazar always wearing his clownish cowboy hat is an insipid spineless dem who lived in the pants of the western slope oil interests his whole political career. I breathed a sigh of relief when Obama appointed him to Interior and then was terribly disappointed when Obama leaned on Governor Ritter to appoint Bill Bennett whose qualities as a multi-millionaire and failed head of the Denver school system got him into Congress.
I look forward to Andrew Romanoff winning the Dem primary over Bennett (he’s beat him twice in the caucases and the Dem state convention) and I’ll support the true progressive candidate (whoever he/she might be) to run against Obama in two years for the Dem nomination.
Why is Obama sitting on his hands with the worst fucking enviromental disaster ever!
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He’s trying to plug a leak?