Wed 03 Oct 2007
My oldest son is now in Cub Scouts. He is there right now, in fact. My wife told me that earlier today, she took him around the block (which in itself is just sad -- when was it that an 8-year-old had to be accompanied around the block?) to sell the popcorn for his fundraiser. No one would buy any. Sure, we're not in the richest neighborhood, but still -- no one would buy any. Here I sit at the computer, and on the desk in front of me sit a half-dozen door hangers for the fundraiser, on each of which my son has written his name, and that he will be back on Friday to pick them up. They are all still sitting here.
And I am overcome by a profound sadness -- my boy is trying to help
and do something, and all he got today was rejection.
Posted in the evening [ /home ]
Boy, talk about a generic blog. What can I say, I'm not a design guy. My brother says he'll design a template for me if I want...
These are the sites that I read the most:
News
instapundit (like many, many
other people)
Google News
reddit
OK, OK, so I'm biased. Big deal.
Highbrow
Arts & Letters Daily
Lowbrow
Fark
The best dang writing on the web, period. (At least it was, when I
set up this blog 4 years ago.)
Lileks
(especially the Bleat)
Eject! Eject! Eject!
Humor
Dave Barry
Tim Blair
Worse Than Failure
Legal Stuff
How Appealing
Balkin (when I want to get mad)
Volokh & Co. (I like Phillipe the best) (where did he go, anyway?)
Lessig
Some Harvard graduate who happens to be totally hilarious.
Other interesting political commentary
Amygdala
Colby Cosh
Impromptus
(and what happened to him, too?)
Best of the Web
Baseball stuff
Neyer
Hunt
(What the heck happened to him, anyway?)
Viva El Birdos
Sites
I used to read all the time, but rarely visit anymore
Slashdot
Yahoo Money
Ubid
Andrew Sullivan
New York Press
Marvelous ways to waste an afternoon
Travels with Samantha (rated PG-13)
The Institute of
Official Cheer
The Fabulous Ruins of
Detroit
Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics
The Tolkien Sarcasm Page
Wikipedia's BJAODN
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me here
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