What a great day.

I have about ten new rings going, I should have them out of the kiln and photographed sometime tomorrow. Exciting! I was really inspired by teaching the ring classes in San Antonio and wanted to make more rings myself.
The league championships start tomorrow, moving closer to the bittersweet end of baseball. Naturally I am rooting [...]

The New Yorker steps up.

And what a piece they wrote. It’s simply signed, “The Editors,” and it’s a blisteringly frank essay on where we’ve been, where we are at, and the two paths we can take from here.
An excerpt:
The longer the campaign goes on, the more the issues of personality and character have reflected badly on McCain. Unless appearances [...]

It’s a gorgeous day

The air is cool, the doors are all open, the yard is full of birds and butterflies and the cats are sleeping in the sunshine.  It’s a beautiful moment.

And let this be the last thought

I give to a bitter old warmonger today. Last night in the debate, McCain told a particularly offensive lie. When Barack called him on his disrespect for the process of diplomacy, and referred to McCain joking around about bombing Iran, McCain said that it was just a moment where he was sharing a laugh with [...]

I slept on it…

and I’ve really decided that John McCain is a racist. His disdain for Barack could be any one of a dozen things; envy for someone who has succeeded on their own merit, rage at someone who is on the brink of taking away the prize that he has been lusting over since he entered the [...]