Rumsfeld can’t be bothered to sign KIA letters to soldiers’ families.
Monthly Archives: December 2004
Sorensen graduation.
December 4, 2004. Amber‘s Sorensen Institute Political Leaders Program poses in the Rotunda‘s Dome Room for a graduation class photo.
Sleeper cell.
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, this kid lumbers into statistics class, plops down next to me, tilts his head back, and goes to sleep. He snores and snorts loudly for 50 minutes and, when class is done, he wakes up and leaves. I have no idea why he bothers to show up.
AP: Police plant plastic explosives on luggage, lose it.
Final exams approach.
By way of warning, final exams start this week. I have my first one on Wednesday, and they get serious on Friday. My last, a take-home, is due on Thursday the 16th, ten days from now. When I turn that in, I start packing the apartment for the move home to Charlottesville, from which I …
Man uses MA sex offender registry to plot to kill 7 of them.
Frank and Joe Show at The Lyric.
I went to see The Frank and Joe Show at The Lyric here in Blacksburg this evening. They put on quite a good show. I bought their one and only album, 33 1/3, some months ago, and I’ve found it quite addictive. The performed the songs that I most wanted to hear — “Don’t Fence …
Getting a Christmas tree.
Amber at a Greene County christmas tree farm, where we picked up a 7′ balsam fir on Saturday. (Cameraphone picture.)
Del. Marshall running for God?
Bob Marshall really scares me: Mona Shaw told Republican Delegate Robert G. Marshall, who represents her in the 13th District, to stop pushing his religious views on residents, especially those who have different views. “I’m terrified to have a delegate that’s going to decide my life,” she said. “You’re not a pharmacist, you’re not my …
Kind of like our faith-based missile defense system.
So, fine, the feds get to push an abstinence-based sex-ed program in the public schools, teaching kids only not to have sex, and not moving on to things like safe sex. I’ll take it without arguing, so long as soldiers learn, in basic training, only how to resolve disputes without resorting to violence. Deal?