Quick hits

[kate_nepveu]

Blog-like items.

• A Washington Post article on World Trade Center fraud. Which was very little compared to the overall size of relief efforts, but fascinating to read about all the same.
• A droll WP article about a Democratic candidate forum hosted by the Human Rights Campaign:

  With that [introduction], seven of the nine Democrats -- only Sens. John Edwards and Bob Graham did not attend -- take the stage in a systematic effort to say, in a collective manner of speaking, that some of the Democrats' best friends are gay.

  Indeed.

• I frequently disagree with posts over at the Volokh Conspiracy, but Eugene Volokh has posted a cogent series regarding gay marriage, trying to look at the arguments offered against it in a concrete manner, rather than tossing around vague abstractions. Start with "How Sweet" and scroll up and up, to (so far) today's post "Still More on Gay Marriage".
• Song lyrics of the day, courtesy of my morning commute CD:

  Wouldn't be here if the Athenia hadn't sunk
  Or if dear old dad hadn't got so drunk

  From the Old 97's "Rollerskate Skinny," off Satellite Rides. A close second is this verse from the same song:

  Ain't nobody gonna see eye to eye
  With a girl who's only gonna stand collarbone high
  Rain's gonna come in fair-sized drips
  We're gonna go to heaven wearing paper hat ships

  but that can't match the sheer "Huh?" value of the first.

Comments

if the athenia hadnt sunk

[illbeyou.livejournal.com]

im pretty damn sure that the athenia was the first ship sunk in ww2.

dont know how i stumbled upon you, but great song, great band.

Re: if the athenia hadnt sunk

[kate_nepveu]

Oh, I knew what it was, it's just an incredibly odd thing to hear in a song. It's probably my favorite song on the album.

Re: if the athenia hadnt sunk

[illbeyou.livejournal.com]

yes, more so possibly the best song of the 90s.