Sooner or later, it all gets real – UPDATED
Walk on.
UPDATED (10/1):
Dave Sked tells me that Thursday will also mark the twentieth anniversary of the band, then including me, played our first gig ever for money at the same venue.John Sked tells me that there’s ‘finally something worth looking at on this blog!’.
An open letter to Senator Herb Kohl
Friday, using the comment/feedback feature of the Senator’s website, I forwarded a comment sharply criticizing the Senator’s recent affirmative vote on the resolution disapproving of MoveOn.org’s recent ad about General Petraeus.
This morning, I received an email in reply:
September 21, 2007
Mr. Jeremy Saperstein
[address redacted]
Dear Mr. Saperstein:
Thank you for taking the time to contact me regarding your concerns
with the MoveOn.org ad critical of General David Petreaus.As you know, the independent MoveOn.org group sponsored an ad in
the New York Times critical of General David Petreaus and his report on the war
in Iraq. Several prominent members of Congress have criticized the ads, citing
its unfair attack on the character and personal integrity of General Petreaus.Recently, the Senate voted on two amendments by Senator Barbara
Boxer (D-CA) and Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), both of which reaffirmed the
Senate’s support for men and women in the Armed Forces and condemned
attacks on the honor, integrity and patriotism of those who have served
honorably. I agree that the ads were inappropriate, and I do not approve of
calling into question the patriotism of the General. I have nothing but respect
for him, and I find this personal attack distasteful.
Sincerely,
Herb Kohl
U.S. Senator
I’ve responded:
Dear Senator Kohl -
Regarding ‘condemn(ing)attacks on the honor, integrity and patriotism of
those who have served honorably’, my apologies, I had no idea that you had
strongly repudiated the recent attacks on the honor, integrity and
patriotism of folks like your own colleagues Senator John Kerry and former
Senator Max Cleland.Oh, wait, is that because you didn’t?
Senator, the unbridled hypocrisy of the other side of the aisle irritates
me above and beyond all of the other facets of the current administration
and their toadies.I am greatly saddened that my own Senator appears to have joined the ranks
of those toadies and sycophants.Shame on you, Senator Kohl.
Respectfully,
Jeremy Saperstein
See you guys in the gulag.
Word Up
Not to get this blog caught up in tiresome personal minutiae (‘cuz it’s all about WHAT, exactly? – Ed.), but I visited the gym again this afternoon, maintaining my stated every-other weekday schedule.
Just so you know I’m keeping it real.
Do I Just Like Using This Picture Of A Deceased Mouse?
Well, yes, but I also think it’s important to note accomplishment here – and after all, if I don’t recognize Wonder here, who will? Does he have some kind of kitty only blog? Does he have a PR firm issuing press releases for him? Does he present his most recent catches to his humans for praise?
Well, no. We found the latest one while investigating an odd odor emanating from beneath the boy’s bed this morning. Apparently he’d been there for a little while, hiding under the screen of potentially befouled socks (or at least that’s what I thought).
So all hail the mighty hunter and lets hope this isn’t the beginning of a Clint Howard movie I’m somehow living in.
I am a bad messiah.
So there I was, germinating a little cult of young(er than me, anyway) ladies who were all cheering me on, telling me how inspiring they found my shining example of steadfast exercise – then, after that entry, I fell off the damned exercise train.
Yesterday marked my return to the gym and, while I was dreading it tremendously, I biked at a better pace than I ever had.
A lesson to be learned? I don’t think anything positive – I just wonder how much better, stronger and faster I’d have been if I had managed to visit the gym a little more (or even once) after my self-tooting.
My exhortation to Maggie and Grrtch? Keep it up, ladies – you’re as much an inspiration to me as I was to you.
Wonder Cat 3, Mice 0
When Lynn and I crawled out of bed this morning, we discovered a lifeless tropaeum musculus tropaeum musculi (Thanks, Dan! -Ed.) left as an offering.
My new hero
Edna
Congrats to Wil…
…for getting namechecked on BoingBoing today!
Just don’t forget the little people, Wil…
As you can see…
… I’m having some, er, issues around here right now.
All I can say is ‘My bad!’ and tell you I’m working on fixing this crap as quickly as I can, which will probably not be that quick, given the exigencies of being a family man….