Willow ,'Chosen'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Harry Lee is still around? He was sheriff of Jefferson Parish when I was a student in NOLA. And I graduated 25 years ago.
And am I terrible because Bobby Jindal's name makes me think of an old Kay Kyser song (I've got spurs that Jindal, Jandal, Jindal....)?
I'm with Rachel. WTF, dude, uh, sir?
Harry Lee is still around? He was sheriff of Jefferson Parish when I was a student in NOLA.
He died...last year? Couple of years ago? Sheriff of Jefferson Parish to the end.
At one job I had in Boston, I regularly corresponded with a man in the San Francisco office. Once he left me a voice mail consisting entirely of him singing a couple choruses of that song.
He died...last year? Couple of years ago?
Yeah. '07.
When I did TV news monitoring, I did a lot of work with NOLA. One of the local reporters went across the river to report on something, and she and her cameraman were hassled and the cameraman arrested for something. The next night, she was wearing something khaki, and the anchor said, "Oh, going across the river again tonight? You're dressed for combat."
Argh, argh! Dear coworkers, would you just send me the last couple of things I need? I understand that they are taking a long time to complete, but I don't understand WHY.
I have just agreed to go out on Friday night with some work colleagues. Why have I done this? Why can't I learn to say no? I'm officially freaking out now!
Whitehouse: We have responsibility to investigate Bush administration (warning: stupid-ass popup with sound, because this is Salon)
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., was on the floor of the Senate Wednesday, calling for the establishment of a commission to investigate torture and perhaps other misdeeds committed during the Bush administration. Whitehouse sits on the Judiciary Committee, which may set up the commission, as well as the Senate Intelligence Committee, which makes him privy to some of the administration's darker secrets.
From Whitehouse's floor statement:
As we work toward a brighter future ahead, to days when jobs return to our cities, capital to our businesses, and security to our lives, we cannot set aside our responsibility to take account of where we are, what was done, and what must now be prepared. We also have to brace ourselves for the realistic possibility that as some of this conduct is exposed we and the world will find it shameful, revolting. We may have to face the prospect of looking with horror at our own country’s deeds.
I have just agreed to go out on Friday night with some work colleagues. Why have I done this? Why can't I learn to say no?
Would drinking be good or bad in this situation?