[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Firefighters are heroes. They always insist they’re not heroes. They say they’re just doing their jobs – nothing heroic about it. And they do those jobs so professionally, making extremely dangerous feats look so routine, that it’s easy to almost believe them. But then something like the tragedy in Arizona… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] With one hour until we finally get to the gay stuff, I might as well post my thoroughly underinformed, wild-guess predictions for what the Supreme Court will decide. Here goes: DOMA: Struck down by a vote of 7-2. Chief Justice Roberts writes the majority opinion, striking down the law on… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Tuesday was a strange day in Denver. After an awful week in which a terrifying wildfire down south, the #BlackForestFire, brought back the “state under siege” mentality of last summer, the drama shifted Tuesday afternoon from shadow and flame to lightning, wind and funnel clouds. This was a bit of… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Above: Photo Illustration by Hana Gartstein, via NASA, of Earth during a lunar eclipse as seen from the Moon. I’ve been saying it since at least 2005, when I wrote on my blog: More than once, the thought has occurred to me: “Man, it would be cool if there was… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Last night, during Loyette and Loyacita’s dance recital, there was an absolutely delightful moment when our 3 ½ year old daughter became that kid – there’s always one, or so it seems, at these little-kid concerts and recitals – who makes a hilariously adorable mistake, handles it with joyful aplomb,… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Becky and the girls walking on the beach this morning.
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] The view from our balcony in Miramar Beach, Florida, where we are on our first “real” family vacation since the eldest (age 5) was born. Yay!!
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] My original 30-day Twitter #hiatus period ended last night at midnight (although the extended #sequester continues), and the final count is 823 tweets – 590 of them during the Boston/West/Ricin “Week From Hell” last month, 233 during the other 25 days. You may laugh at a so-called “hiatus” that involves… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] My Twitter hiatus was shot to hell last week by the Week From Hell – a week that, as Becky put it on Facebook early Friday, “started…with the gruesome story of Kermit Gosnell, moved on to the marathon bombings, had a deranged Elvis impersonator send deadly ricin to Congressmen and… Read more »
Add three names to The Living Room Times Hall of Eternal Glory: Mike Boyd of Raleigh, NC; Scott Fort of Warrior, AL; and Ross Binder of Minneapolis, MN — champions of the 18th annual Men’s NCAA Pool, 16th annual Women’s NCAA Pool, and 9th annual NIT Pool, respectively. Actually, Fort’s name is not a new addition to the Hall of… Read more »