Recent brag shots

Here's our little charmer at three months, with and without her magic smile...





Just in case anybody wondered, this kind of project is labor-intensive, but totally worth it! Such fun and gradual unfolding of abilities...

Slowly dawning

Rafe has a great take on Hillary's handling of her gradually clarifying loss, framing it as a slow passage through the 5 stages of grief. As he says,

Personally, I’m ready for depression and then acceptance to kick in.

Yeah, I think it's time.

Fear versus fuctionality

Obama makes a good point about the silliness of refusing to talk to the folks that we think threaten us. I can't subquote -- go read the three paragraphs.

This is just seriously funny

Ever helped a parent or other computer-challenged acquaintance with technical woes? Then you might appreciate the humor of this parody in which a user struggles with the new technology known as the book. Tech support in the Medieval era . . .

(via pal Don)

First Mothers' Day!

Here are three generations of redheads (at least, we speculate that the latest entry might turn out that way) together a couple of days ahead of the actual holiday and modelling the relationship(s) it celebrates. Hope everybody had a good one!


Smile for the tiny camera, all!

Quip of the day

Atrios on current political matters:

Still it's important to remember that the outcome of the Internet Asshole Olympics really shouldn't have much bearing on who you vote for either now or in November.

heh...

In a nutshell, the latest

Rafe captures two good arguments for favoring Obama over Clinton in the Democratic race, each of which captures a major sentiment I've had myself -- one is positive for Barak and the other negative for Clinton. Worth a quick trip.