I am very hopeful that this marks the end of a very frustrating week, blog-wise. I find it impossible to believe that anyone would release a piece of software as buggy as that I was using on my old site. It literally took hours to publish a single new post, and it refused to do such things as properly embed links. I just hope that those readers who stuck with me through this can find their way to the new site, given the fact that the last post on the site got screwed up by the software. I tried to embed a link to this site, which it refused to do. It insisted on adding the address of my old site before the address to the new one, resulting in an error message from the .Mac folks. I was forced to write out the address without a link. I am now here on the real internet, using WordPress, which seems like a remarkably easy program to use.
Now that I have this behind me I can start reading the news again, so I can have something to write about. Here I am, at 9:00 PM, and I haven’t the slightest idea precisely how bad Alberto tanked today. I’ll be checking that out in a minute.
Tomorrow I’ll be at the JJB Dinner, and may or may not have some pictures Saturday. I suspect that’s one area in which I’ll miss my old software. It integrated with Iphoto, so I could add any photo, properly sized, with ease. We’ll see.
As to the JJB dinner, I’m still not happy about the fact that they gave Lieberman such prominence on the invitation. I’m hoping we Yahoos will get a chance to express our displeasure about that at some point.
There have been a lot of questions about what the Democrats should do if they pass an Iraq funding resolution with teeth in it and Bush vetoes it.
The Supreme Court’s recent abortion decision gives rise to one possibility, though I have no illusions about the possibility that anyone might try this.
Once Bush vetoes the bill, the Democrats will no doubt feel obliged to give in and “untie” Bush’s hands. Why not put a little poison pill in the bill. Attach a provision that amends the “partial birth abortion” ban to make an exception for cases in which the health of the woman is at risk. Bush can attack it all he wants, but he’ll have to choose between signing it (and mitigating the most draconian part of the Supreme Court’s decision) and holding up funding for his war just so the right wing can kill women.
I don’t know whether you can do this sort of thing under the rules, but it would be entertaining to see Bush deal with it.
I thought this article at Talking Points Memo was extremely interesting. Apparently, Senator Schumer has had problems with a politicized system of justice in the past.
In his case, it was an unholy alliance among the left, right and press that sought to bring him down. The story is a monitory lesson for those of us who tend to see all evil on the right (where most of it truly is).
This is my first attempt to post using my new blog and WordPress. I hope this works. At the moment I haven’t added links to the blogroll, nor have I deleted the pre-supplied links. I’ll get to that soon. So far this has been easy and I’m sorry I didn’t do it earlier.
