Events

Via Andrew Sullivan, Senator Obama's remarkable address to the graduating students at Southern New Hampshire University yesterday: There is a verse from the Bible that is sometimes read or recited during rites of passage like this. Corinthians 13:11: “When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.” I bring this up because there’s often an assumption on days like today that growing up is purely a function of...

Steve Benen at Talking Points Memo nicely sums it up: The AP had an interesting item today, highlighting Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' perspective on being close friends with the president. As the embattled Gonzales sees it, his close relationship with Bush, which spans decades, is inherently "a good thing" for everyone. "Being able to go and having a very candid conversation and telling the president: 'Mr. President, this cannot be done. You can't do this,'—I think you want that," Gonzales told...

Parker and I are hard at work at Inner Drive Technology World HQ: I don't know how long we'll stay, because it's ridiculously nice outside. That is all.

Ah, the joys of the bully stick... I particularly love the trance-like state he gets into when gnawing on one.

This is absolutely the last thing you want to see if you're a rabbit. Fortunately, given Parker's hunting skills, it wouldn't actually be the last thing you saw, but it would still scare the pellets out of you:

Schadenfreude embarrasses me a little. I never want to wish death on anyone. But sometimes, someone dies who spent his life in opposition to everything one holds dear, and one cannot help to feel just the tiniest bit pleased at his passing. Of course I mean Jerry Falwell, one of the most reprehensible characters in American politics this century. In conversations with friends since yesterday, a couple of things came out: First, it's too bad there's no "him" left to contemplate the fact that he's not...

There has to be a caption here. Thoughts? No ParkerCam today; back tomorrow.

Parker continues his fascination with rocks: By the way, this entry shows up under "Tuesday" because my servers use Universal Time. It's still Monday in Chicago, so I'm slipping through on a technicality.

Oh. My. God. Via Talking Points Memo: Staff members of an elementary school [in Murfeesboro, Tenn.,] staged a fictitious gun attack on students during a class trip, telling them it was not a drill as the children cried and hid under tables. ... During the last night of the trip, staff members convinced the 69 students that there was a gunman on the loose. They were told to lie on the floor or hide underneath tables and stay quiet. A teacher, disguised in a hooded sweat shirt, even pulled on a locked...

I don't know whether this is sad or funny: The new frontrunner for "worst idea in modern journalism" has to go James Macpherson, editor and publisher of the two-year-old site pasadenanow.com, who recently ran this job posting: "We seek a newspaper journalist based in India to report on the city government and political scene of Pasadena, California, USA."