Got the tulips and daffs planted; so easy to dig after all the rain. After being made aware of the tenth anniversary of the shootings at Columbine, I developed an interest and went to Borders to buy the new book of the same name. Started it last night and it's absorbing. A. stopped in and we chatted with neighbors, then walked to the clubhouse so I could vote for the school board election and, most important, on the budget questions.
Stopped at the library and discussed my showcase display of Dionne Quint stuff, which I'll arrange for May. I made the--very reluctant--decision not to attend the "Quinvention" at the end of May. Pat's condition and the logistics are just too onerous; I simply can't see my way clear to go. I'm sorry, but at least someday I might be able to get up to Callander on my own.
Beautiful warmth and sunshine, which makes my day, so it was a good one.
Wider: From my hero, Chris Floyd, on the disgusting torture cover-up:
"Obama is simply trying to uphold this New Democrat tradition of ass-covering for the other side. But too much of the torture cat has slipped out of the bag to shove it back in quietly. And so on Tuesday, he sought to appease the growing pressure by saying that he was open to the possibility of maybe potentially putting together some kind of commission or something somewhere down the line that could look into whether or not some of these charges might need to be, er, looked into a little further -- although he was quick to add that he was "not suggesting" that such a thing should be done. You mustn't get that idea! But he was, magnanimously, willing to say that he would not immediately put the imperial kibosh on the process if and when it ever cranked up."
Chris goes on to say--surprise!--that if anything like this should happen, some of the lower flunkies will be sacrificed and everyone will swoon with amazed adoration that The Dear Leader was so daring.
This is why, when the boot-licking media praises "bi-partisanship," we should run for the hills--or at least understand that there is no "loyal opposition" because there is no opposition. The ruling class arranges some trifling little "differences" to sway the electorate, then continues to trade off every few years the White House and the country.
Wider Two: Here's a deceptively simply, but utterly profound, quote by Frederick Douglas, who died 124 years ago:
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
Could that possibly still hold true? Hmm, guess we'll have to ponder it for awhile.