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Good golly, Miss Molly....

Only 44% left on the battery and so much on my mind (at least 6%...)

Tom Delay indicted in Travis County, TX. Not for the entire re-districting fiasco that resulted in a legislature that did a better job of financing telecom companies than it did of financing schools, but for conspiring to abuse campaign-finance laws (which of course resulted in said legislature and said re-districting).

Let's ignore for a moment that any system devised by man can be circumvented by man (otherwise, how would a mixed-breed dog have a blog???).

Others all over the Texas blog-world have done a better job of presenting the texts than I can with my dying battery, but I'll add this: if Delay's guilty as charged by the grand jury, it's because his lawyer(s) screwed up. I'm hoping they did, but that doesn't stop me from letting him shift the blame. Everything bad is someone else's fault, after all...

I guess it just strikes me that a collosal failure to serve is a greater crime than juggling funds. In my world, moral issues - issues of justice - are greater than legal issues. And yet we've created/allowed to evolve a system wherein what's right ain't always legal, and what's legal ain't always right.

It's a sad night here - not because Delay was indicted - because he wasn't indicted for his true crimes.

Wednesday, so The Carnival's in town!

If it's Wednesday, then The Carnival of Education is up. The Education Wonks are hosting Week 34 in their superlative fashion, as usual.

And I complained to them that every week they add to my bookmarks/favorites list (I'm bi-lingual).

I'm watchin' Stormtracker, and it's beatin' me like a pound pup

The track keeps shifting east, looking more and more as if NO will get more water. Please, please, send this storm westerly from the projections.

I hate water where I can't see the bottom. I don't want THAT much water. But please, don't nail those folks again. They have enough dogs without homes... And cats are hard to chase when they're in the water. And squirrels? They don't get it at all.

Please, dear Lord, keep my friends safe if you can't keep them dry.

Carnival Time

If it's Wednesday, then The Carnival of Education is up. The Education Wonks are hosting Week 33 in their superlative fashion, as usual.

So little time, so much to do...

Alpha finally had enough people from the cable company in and out of the house over a three-day span that the last one discovered the problem: the modem was bad. All the right lights blinked, but nothing was escaping from the little box to the big box. At least that's how he explained it to me. I'm just glad everything's working again.

It does create a dilemma, though. After a two-and-a-half week total absence from the blogoshere, there's TOO MUCH TO CATCH UP ON!!!.

I take those links in my side-bar seriously. I read all of them. I think about them. I respond to them when the urge comes. Then there's a whole ton of sites I have bookmarked that I have to check on too: lots of newspapers, some political blogs, some other stuff.

So now, I'm about two-thirds of the way through catching up on my reading. Then I have to start on my thinking (unfortunately, I already succumbed to the urge a couple times. Hope I don't wish later I'd thought before I did that). Then I can get back to serious (and non-serious) blogging.