Rumors that Jeff Ladd was finishing a cloister were decisively disproven.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Been lax this month
Enjoy photos of Brighton from last Fall and Carcassonne from this Spring.
Rumors that Jeff Ladd was finishing a cloister were decisively disproven.
Rumors that Jeff Ladd was finishing a cloister were decisively disproven.
Friday, July 06, 2007
Friday cat blogging
Featuring a pair I saw in Ireland. Apparently cats in Ireland photosynthesize and grow in planters. Who knew?!
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Hey, Blogger!
OK, this is getting tiresome. Sure I'm in France, but this is an English-language blog. Language choice should be permanent per blog and not vary depending on the IP address of the computer making the connection.
Stupid Republicans
Clearly the Clintons are hypocrites, says the White House. Bush, after all, has only commuted one sentence, while Bill Clinton issued hundreds of pardons!
Quick talking point for people momentarily floored by the 200:1 ratio: NONE OF CLINTON'S PARDONS WAS IN SELF-DEFENSE!
None would even remotely qualify as "obstruction of justice". And yet that's what the Libby commutation is.
The Republicans serve as a good argument for mandatory class mobility. Let's have a restoration of the estate tax, at a higher level. And no more private schools. Public schools for everybody! Then we'll see how good they are.
Quick talking point for people momentarily floored by the 200:1 ratio: NONE OF CLINTON'S PARDONS WAS IN SELF-DEFENSE!
None would even remotely qualify as "obstruction of justice". And yet that's what the Libby commutation is.
The Republicans serve as a good argument for mandatory class mobility. Let's have a restoration of the estate tax, at a higher level. And no more private schools. Public schools for everybody! Then we'll see how good they are.
Friday, June 29, 2007
Ray Allen to Celtics
You know, Ray Allen graduated from UConn before they won their first NCAA championship. Which was in 1999.
Ray Allen was a great player. But he's on the wrong side of 30. What we are seeing here is the phase of a franchise known as "desperately trying to win before the GM is fired".
I sure as hell hope the C's have some play other than "play Ray Allen alongside Paul Pierce". Um, guys? They play the same freakin' position!
Jeff Green is going to be a good pro. And he would have made a better fit for the Cs than Ray Allen will.
I just don't get it.
Well, maybe next year the Cs will win the lottery. They certainly will have plenty of chances to do so. Trading a young, healthy, good player for an over-the-hill shooting guard was pretty much exactly the opposite of "useful". Let's face it: Danny Ainge has no plan here. He has no idea of how he's going to build a winning team, in what order, and which players are going to be the most useful. The Roy-for-Telfair trade of last year's offseason is still hurting the Cs.
Well, at least Ainge is doing his part to bring quality basketball to the Pacific Northwest.
Ray Allen was a great player. But he's on the wrong side of 30. What we are seeing here is the phase of a franchise known as "desperately trying to win before the GM is fired".
I sure as hell hope the C's have some play other than "play Ray Allen alongside Paul Pierce". Um, guys? They play the same freakin' position!
Jeff Green is going to be a good pro. And he would have made a better fit for the Cs than Ray Allen will.
I just don't get it.
Well, maybe next year the Cs will win the lottery. They certainly will have plenty of chances to do so. Trading a young, healthy, good player for an over-the-hill shooting guard was pretty much exactly the opposite of "useful". Let's face it: Danny Ainge has no plan here. He has no idea of how he's going to build a winning team, in what order, and which players are going to be the most useful. The Roy-for-Telfair trade of last year's offseason is still hurting the Cs.
Well, at least Ainge is doing his part to bring quality basketball to the Pacific Northwest.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
la belle France
Oh, isn't Blogger clever! I'm in Paris, so all of the messages here are in French! I can modifier le code HTML, sauvegarder maintenant, or publier le message blog!
In France for two weeks, including a jaunt to Montpellier. I plan to finish up in Carcassonne, a city planned in the Middle Ages in anticipation of the tile-based German game that is popular today. I've got the camera but I left my mini-disk drive at home.
So, I will be attaching old photos from France and pretending they are from this trip. It's a chateau named Chambord, one of the many from the Loire valley.
In France for two weeks, including a jaunt to Montpellier. I plan to finish up in Carcassonne, a city planned in the Middle Ages in anticipation of the tile-based German game that is popular today. I've got the camera but I left my mini-disk drive at home.
So, I will be attaching old photos from France and pretending they are from this trip. It's a chateau named Chambord, one of the many from the Loire valley.
Friday, June 15, 2007
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