Thunder Road (acoustic) – Bruce Springsteen
Some odds and ends:
– My home state is just about to legalize gay marriage. The crucial vote was in the Senate, where the 25th vote necessary to ensure passage eventually came from my the senator from my hometown, Mary Haugen. Good for her and good for Washington! Remember when people used to say that the only support for marriage equality came from ‘unelected judges’? I’m glad that trope is on the way out.
– Hey look, Romney’s going to be the nominee. Who could have guessed it? Newt Gingrich was never going to win in a million years, nor was Rick Santorum. Once Pawlenty dropped out and Perry revealed himself to be dumber than a bag of Yukon Gold potatoes, this was pretty much inevitable.
– The Planned Parenthood/Komen Foundation hullabaloo was depressing and then tremendously encouraging. The orchestrated campaign over the last few years to systematically discredit Planned Parenthood is terrible. They provide a wide range of very important health services for people who would not otherwise have access to them. In terms of return-for-investment, there are few better places to donate than them. The outcry which erupted this week – forcing Komen to very quickly walk back their new policy, and resulting in a mass of donations to PP – is a very good demonstration of people power at work. It’s easy to overstate the importance of stuff like this (and the SOPA protests), so some caution is warranted, but it’s still awesome.
– I won the 2011 online Dominion tournament. That’s pretty cool.
– Just got my tickets to go see Bruce Springsteen in April. Super excited. And, I’m seeing Jeff Mangum in April, too. It’s going to be a great month.
I’m totally flabbergasted by this entry.
I found your site a year or so ago while looking for a song on Hype Machine, and I subscribed because I liked your commentary and your taste in music.
But I’m also a big Dominion player, and I’m on isotropic at least an hour a day, so to see the author of this blog I sorta randomly found mention out of the blue that he was the winner of the DS.com tournament…I don’t know, it just totally fries my mind.
I guess in the telling it doesn’t seem like it’s as big of a coincidence as it feels at the moment. Whatever, this comment is starting to feel like when someone describes a dream to you. I guess what I should be saying is congratulations on your win! That’s really impressive!
And thanks for continuing to post well-written entries, accompanied by great songs, all this time. I really enjoy your blog.
Nice. I love it when stuff like that happens. I think the Venn Diagram of people who like Dominion and people who like this blog probably has a bigger overlap than you’d expect from a random distribution, but still…pretty cool.
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