Blogging is likely to be light this weekend as I will be attending Condor here in San Diego. From the programming looks like it will be fun.
Light Blogging
Final thought on Wisconsin
Not a big post here. I still feel that Public sector unions are a very different beast from Private Sector unions and there is considerable question as to their ultimate utility to the republic.
That said, I would favor that the governor’s proposal be defeated in Wisconsin.
Since he has excempted politically favorable unions from the legilation this is unequal and appears to be mostly politically motivated. Break all the public sector unions, or none of them, not just the ones who supported the opposition in the last election.
quick post
Got back late from the Mysterious Galaxy Writer’s Meeting. I really like this writers’ group and I think we’re starting to find our stride.
However due ot the late hour this is all the posting I will do.
Experimental Prose
So, I have been experimenting with a new writing style.
This is a very novel experiment for me as style, that elusive and difficult to define aspect, is something I have not tried to craft. The lecture series I purchased has given me thoughts and really courage to experiment in this way.
After the jump is a short story playing with this new style, albeit in an extreme form. Let me know what you think.
Monday Mirth
Okay I am so going to see this movie in the theaters. Come on, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost of Shawn of The Dead, plus aliens, plus music from Xanadu. (which is most likely just the trailer.) How can I not go. Continue reading
No Sunday Night Movie this week.
Last night , about 7:45 I started getting a nasty little headache. By 8:30 it had progressed into a low-level migraine and I knew that there would be no Sunday Night Movie for me. I bid goodnight to my sweetie-wife and crawled into bed. I stayed there, leaving only to call in sick to work, for the next 14 hours. (A tleast I can report that the new bed is comfortable.) Now it has throttled back to just a nasty tension headache.
For those who enjoy my Sunday Night Movie feature, I apologize sorry for the miss.
The Pernicious Prevarication of The Instapundit
So there I was doing political blog reading the other day when I came across this posting from Instapundit:
CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE: ObamaCare Repeal Would Save $1.4 Trillion.
This is a very typical type of posting from Professor Reynolds. Short, makes a dramatic point, and linking to further information. It is also an excellent example of how he prevaricates with this short pithy posts. Someone who was justing reading down the numerous posting for that day would read the slug, come away with the impression that repealing Healthcare reform would save us 1.4 trillion dollars, and move on. I followed the link because it seemed at odds with what knew of the situation. Maybe I was wrong and I wouldn’t going to dismiss the concept out of hand. Continue reading
Some thoughts on the Wisconsin Issues
First: Once again we have the horribly heated rhetoric in which your opponents are automatically the equivalent to Hitler and or the Nazis. This, as it was with the protest on the right, is simply absurd. While the move to break a set of public worker unions is a major political step, one certain to generate intense feelings, it is not in any way comparable to the degenerate, racist, insane positions of the NAZI party. This is a perfect example as to why I dislike extremes in nearly all its forms, it is blinding and when you are cocooned in its comfortable black-and-white world you are unreeachable by reason or rational thought. Continue reading
New Beds
So Ikea, that bastion of clean elegant style, delivered our new beds today. It was a very orderly and well handled process. we were giving a time frame to expect the delivery and then 10 minutes or so before the actually arrival we got a complimentary call alerting us that the truck was on its way.
The delivery men were prompt and friendly, hauling away our old queen sized mattress and box spring, leaving the new material, packed and ready for assembly, in our living-room.
As is the case with nearly everything from Ikea, assembly was easy and quick. For the beds it really was nothing more than adding the legs to the support boxes and presto instant beds.
The mattresses were more intriguing to me. They came tightly rolled-up and sealed in plastic. (‘She’s dead, wrapped in plastic.‘) Once the plastic was sliced the mattresses unrolled and inflated. They are shipped vacuumed sealed, an aspect I particularly liked given the current fear of bedbugs out in the world, and the air rushes in, audibly, plumping up the mattresses to the full depth, a process neither fast nor dramatic, but one that fascinating to watch.
My sweetie-wife has gone out now for new linens, leaving me to a raining Saturday afternoon. I think Call Of Duty calls.
Friday Funnies
Seeing this video with my sweetie-wife I made a startling discovery. She has nearly zero knowledge of the Muppets. Aside from Kermit and Miss Piggy that virtually all unknown to her.