To the UNC men’s basketball team (#15) who just deafeated Duke (#1) 83 – 76,
You guys are insprational. Throughout this entire season you have exceeded everyone’s expectations, and tonight you demonstrated more heart than Coach K could ever buy.
I want to give every one of you a big kiss for believing in yourselves.
I am in basketball heaven.
Love,
Ruby
PS: Stay tuned to watch the women’s team win the ACC championship tomorrow afternoon.
The good news is I found the schedule and bracket for the women’s ACC tournament. The bad news is that UNC is playing UVA at 11 am today!
Here’s my dilemma: should I tape it and avoid looking at scores until I watch it after work? Or should I just content myself with the fact that I know they will win?
I. R. A. Q.
Yer doin’ a great job, Bushie!
The Iraqi government announced a one-day ban on private vehicles in Baghdad and its outskirts aimed at averting violence on Friday, when Muslims attend the most important prayer service of the week.
– Iraq Bans Cars After Another Bloody Day – Yahoo! News
Lest you think that the end of my job at Planned Parenthood meant the end of my globetrotting… I have got my own personal world tour coming up in March. I will be out of town on 3 different trips for a total of 15 days.
Oh, and by the way this meeting will be in Montevideo, URUGUAY! It will be a short but amazing trip for me. I have been across the U.S. and I have been to Europe, but this will be my first time in South America, the developing world, or the southern hemisphere of this large planet. I can’t wait to practice my Spanglish, and that’s just the beginning of this short (3 days there, 1.5 days in transit) adventure.
You can learn more about my trip from looking at my ‘montevideo’ bookmarks.
Plus I get to visit the Texan branch of my family!
Meanwhile there is a small matter of basketball going on! UNC women are now #1 in the nation, and Ivory Latta can taste the NCAA championship. The men are #2 in the ACC and we’re getting better with every game recently, so I think we could be a contender for that title and should make a strong showing in the NCAA as well. Wish me luck in getting to see any of it. 😉
This round-up will start with the worst news and work toward the good stuff, because I don’t want anyone slitting their wrists on account of me.
I’m just so sad and disgusted to hear this news, and it’s only the begining of more and more rights that will be going away for the next few deacdes.
As far as wired conferences go, South By Southwest seems to really be getting it right. You can see all of their oferrings in the SXSW Toolbox. Here’s a list of the resources I have used or checked out so far, and of course the event hasn’t even started yet:
Continue reading “How to connect conference participants”
“…so uninformed as to be nonsensical.” That’s how Google’s attorneys describe the Bush administration’s request for data on every search perfomed in a given week, in another attempt to protect us by spying on us. Thanks, but no thanks, big brother.
Maybe Jessie Beard was right:
 How rich are you? >> I’m loaded. |
Hat tip: I found the Global Rich List (which is designed like a hypercard deck from a 1980’s Macintosh) via a cool tool called StumbleUpon that a co-worker just pointed me to.
Radical Russ has a great essay on Pam’s House Blend today about how progressives need to stop coddling the Democratic Party and start demanding true representation of our values. My favorite passage:
“And when this giant awakes, he does freaky radical things like throw crates of tea in Boston Harbor, secede from the Union, riot in the streets for unionization, march from Selma to Montgomery, and burn bras and draft cards.”
Keep reading for a longer excerpt or go read the whole thing.
Continue reading “Stop coddling Democrats”
I can’t imagine how excruciatingly painful it must be to be shot in the face, neck, and chest with a shotgun. My deepest sympathies to Mr. Whittington, and I wish him a speedy recovery.
That said… how perfect is this whole Cheney shooting debacle! It’s a great microcosm for this administration: Cheney is ruthless and violent, Bush is out of the loop, the press secretary is even more so. This administration can’t even look open and honest when they actually have nothing to hide. Plus they were hunting without the proper license – these are the people who supposed to uphold our laws? This looks so bad even the GOP is pissed off.
Continue reading “Go Dick Go”