tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-615277 2012-02-18T07:43:12-06:00 Writing is only real on the first draft TypePad Subscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesSubscribe with PlusmoSubscribe with The Free DictionarySubscribe with Bitty BrowserSubscribe with NewsAlloySubscribe with Live.comSubscribe with Excite MIXSubscribe with Attensa for OutlookSubscribe with WebwagSubscribe with Podcast ReadySubscribe with FlurrySubscribe with WikioSubscribe with Daily Rotation tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5ced53ef01630199febf970d 2012-02-18T07:43:12-06:00 2012-02-18T07:43:12-06:00 Athenae Have you ever met someone famous, or someone you greatly admired? How did you react? A. tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5ced53ef0163018fa5aa970d 2012-02-17T13:51:43-06:00 2012-02-17T13:51:43-06:00 Doc “You are out of your goddamned mind!” Not exactly the support I had hoped for when explaining my plan for this Friday to The Missus. About six weeks ago, a company that does massive estate sales posted early pictures as... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5ced53ef0163018e2c41970d 2012-02-17T11:30:43-06:00 2012-02-17T11:30:43-06:00 Athenae Hello, I'm teeny and have little ears. A. tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5ced53ef0167627ccc07970b 2012-02-17T00:12:34-06:00 2012-02-17T00:12:34-06:00 Athenae Issa is a bag of assholes, not that we didn't know this: We heard from religious leaders whose positions might not be popular, like MLK's position was not so long ago: http://bit.ly/yyNhUb #p2 This is a constant refrain from these... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5ced53ef016301871cf1970d 2012-02-16T23:19:23-06:00 2012-02-16T23:19:23-06:00 Athenae Anthony Shadid, New York Times foreign correspondent, Pulitzer winner, fellow alum of my beloved Daily Cardinal, and a personal hero of mine, has died in Syria: The death of Mr. Shadid, an American of Lebanese descent who had a wife... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5ced53ef0168e7770eb4970c 2012-02-16T12:41:18-06:00 2012-02-16T12:41:18-06:00 Athenae Jon Armstrong pulls something out here that I missed when this article originally made the rounds with all the quick and easy commentary that a) conservatives are inherently fact-free and b) as long as a white person's getting it, it's... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5ced53ef0168e773433c970c 2012-02-16T06:37:08-06:00 2012-02-16T06:37:08-06:00 Michael F From Album4 According to Sioux City bishop Walker Nickless -- hey, shouldn't his last name begin with a D instead of an N? -- anyway, according to him, the local pharmacist... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5ced53ef0168e7688ecd970c 2012-02-15T13:09:18-06:00 2012-02-15T13:09:18-06:00 Adrastos It's dog day afternoon here at First Draft: tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5ced53ef0168e76669c2970c 2012-02-15T09:58:14-06:00 2012-02-15T09:59:11-06:00 Virgo Tex "You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us." Robert Louis Stevenson As skeptically humanist as I remain about heaven, I still want to believe that all dogs go... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5ced53ef0163016efaca970d 2012-02-15T09:19:37-06:00 2012-02-15T10:01:05-06:00 Virgo Tex My favorite music of any past year is the stuff I'm still listening to the next year and the one after that, long after all the year end lists and taking account is past. Sharon Van Etten's epic has been... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5ced53ef0167625d5c2c970b 2012-02-14T22:08:11-06:00 2012-02-14T22:17:23-06:00 Scout Prime Protesters marched on the state Capitol today gathering in the Rotunda to sing, chant and commemorate the one year anniversary of the start of the protests against Walker's "Budget Repair" bill. It was a year ago on Valentine's Day that... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5ced53ef01630167f2f0970d 2012-02-14T21:40:19-06:00 2012-02-14T21:40:19-06:00 Adrastos Tonight on Adrastos' obsession with the Jayhawks: Different song, same title, same day, same sentiment: tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5ced53ef0168e75e0d73970c 2012-02-14T20:24:57-06:00 2012-02-14T20:24:57-06:00 Athenae WHITE PEOPLE WIN THEM ALWAYS AND FOREVER: Ness said he's also heard "heartfelt objections" to the campaign from many "thoughtful, well-meaning" Duluthians. One of those citizens, Phil Pierson, created a Facebook page called "Stop Racist Unfair Campaign" to air objections... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5ced53ef016301670d92970d 2012-02-14T20:07:29-06:00 2012-02-14T20:07:29-06:00 Athenae Wow, Fitzgerald is a moron: Specifically, the campaign is asking that a number of signatures be struck because postcards sent to those addresses were returned by the U.S. Postal Service as undeliverable. However, checking the addresses on the postcards against... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5ced53ef016762576d23970b 2012-02-14T12:46:51-06:00 2012-02-14T12:46:51-06:00 Adrastos I'm not big on Valentine's Day but I do love my wife dearly. So, this is for Dr. A because I do indeed believe that "two hearts are better than one." tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5ced53ef0168e75489c7970c 2012-02-14T06:08:33-06:00 2012-02-14T06:08:33-06:00 Athenae This whole presidential campaign is just a giant scheme on the part of the Republican Party to make sure Mitt Romney doesn't have enough money left to ever run for president again, right? A. tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5ced53ef0163015080b9970d 2012-02-13T21:46:00-06:00 2012-02-13T21:46:00-06:00 Athenae Holy shit, these people: They'd pick a time to meet. Their rendezvous point: 3,000 feet above a bridge at Lake Martin, 25 miles away. He'd be flying a repaired AT6 trainer. She'd be in a much slower Piper J-3 Cub.... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5ced53ef0163015061a8970d 2012-02-13T13:38:00-06:00 2012-02-13T13:38:00-06:00 Athenae Ugh: The bill’s sponsor, state representative J.R. Hoell, argued that companies failing to provide lunch breaks would be shamed over social media, thus rendering the law unnecessary. “If they are not letting people have lunch, they could put it out... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5ced53ef0163013101c7970d 2012-02-13T06:35:00-06:00 2012-02-13T06:35:00-06:00 Tommy T Good morning, gentle people - the double iso chamber is still set up, and may remain so until after the election, or until there's nobody left on FR except Jim Rob and his immediate family. This edition of Obsession is... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5ced53ef0168e73db233970c 2012-02-12T19:44:58-06:00 2012-02-12T19:44:58-06:00 Athenae Go for it. Just go for it. Burn it all down. Pile everything you've ever said was important to you in the street, douse it in gasoline, and let the blaze light up the sky. This puts it all on... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5ced53ef0168e735f6e4970c 2012-02-12T06:57:18-06:00 2012-02-12T06:57:18-06:00 Tommy T A thousand pardons for getting out of my box, but I know you've all seen this by now: (can an auto-tuned remix be far behind?) It sounded so very familiar - all I could think of was this: tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5ced53ef0168e72bbb1a970c 2012-02-11T13:26:50-06:00 2012-02-11T13:26:50-06:00 Athenae A. tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5ced53ef0163012c5afb970d 2012-02-11T01:07:00-06:00 2012-02-11T01:07:00-06:00 Athenae Via Dan, who wants to know: If you could commission a painting from this guy, what would you order up? Me, I'm going with Barack Obama performing a partial-birth abortion of a baby seal fetus carried by the Virgin Mary,... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5ced53ef0163012abb69970d 2012-02-10T20:27:19-06:00 2012-02-10T20:27:19-06:00 Doc To Mr. A, as I'm missing a trip to the Chicagoland area to spend a weekend teaching kids how to report, write and annoy the administrators at their schools. It's convention season, which means I'm running my ass off all... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5ced53ef0168e71a5b10970c 2012-02-10T08:51:20-06:00 2012-02-10T08:51:20-06:00 Athenae A. tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5ced53ef0168e70dbcbf970c 2012-02-10T00:12:00-06:00 2012-02-09T13:04:59-06:00 Adrastos It's chilly again, which means it's time for Della and Oscar to hit the couch: tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5ced53ef0168e6fedf7c970c 2012-02-09T19:00:00-06:00 2012-02-09T19:00:00-06:00 Adrastos Tonight on Adrastos' obsession with the Jayhawks; Gary Louris gets all Grand Funky Railroady. Teens agog. tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5ced53ef0163010a56b4970d 2012-02-09T10:59:00-06:00 2012-02-09T10:59:00-06:00 Athenae Scout sends over the latest "oh yeah, well where did YOU go to school huh?" argument against giving stupid people columns, via The Progressive: Rickert’s main point was that both Ruff and Kemble engaged in “guilt by association” by pointing... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5ced53ef016762029e40970b 2012-02-09T10:45:47-06:00 2012-02-09T10:45:47-06:00 Adrastos I'm trying to get my malaka of the week rhythm back. It shouldn't be hard since there's so much malakatude out there. This week's "honoree" is a Mississippi State Rep who thinks the Magnolia state can rename an international body... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5ced53ef016762087e58970b 2012-02-09T07:21:03-06:00 2012-02-09T07:21:03-06:00 Michael F From Album4 Louie Gohmert hears his own private call of the wild, and in doing so, tries to make the case for being the dimmest bulb in all of Congress...no mean feat. Molly Ivins once said being literate in East...