Low Spark

Ok, so we watched a video at a dispatcher’s workshop that featured the song Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys by Traffic, but no one knew the song except for me, and that made me sad.  This is a great song from a great album, and deserves to be explored by everyone — everyone — do it.

pol vs. pol

Tami at work asked me the other day, “What don’t you like about McCain?”  A succinct answer eluded me.  There’s not really an easy way to summarize these campaigners; no two-word answer — well, I did attempt one, jokingly, but it was lame.

The Great Downturn of 2008

The Great Downturn of 2008 ™ doesn’t have quite the ring of The Great Depression of the 1930s, but I’m trademarking it, just in case.

Some of us have been thinking that if these big companies and CEOs suffer greatly from bad decision-making and global mismanagement, not to mention the cheating and lying, that maybe they deserve it.

diversions

Some stuff I found interesting over the past few days: