After 24 years, tonight will be Dan Rather’s last night as anchor of CBS Evening News.
I kept my mouth shut through his anti-Bush smear campaign leading up to our recent election because, let’s face it, nobody really watches CBS Evening News and Rather had little-to-no effect on the election (despite his best efforts). But, on the eve of his belated departure, I will let you know what I think.
A few weeks ago, I was watching television and I saw one of those attention-getting news teasers. You know what I’m talking about—”Nuclear war might start soon, details at eleven!” and so on. This particular night, we were told that a child pornography ring had been discovered (and its members, of course, arrested) somewhere in the DC metro area.
This commentary by Sol Schindler discusses what the word ‘neoconservative’—which has been lobbed around a lot lately as some kind of dire insult—really means (in the context of talking about a collection of neocon essays).
I haven’t been feeling well the last few days . . . darn this cold-ish thing that everybody has!
I think I forgot to mention that I’ll be playing bass guitar at the second service at Community of Faith on Sunday. I’ve been spending what little free time I’ve had the last couple of days learning the part (it’s pretty complex). I don’t know exactly who’ll be playing, but apparently there’s going to be a whole band+choir setup. I’ll let you know more when I know more.
In the never-ending saga of rebuilding my poetry section (see the original plan and my last update), I’m happy to report that things are going reasonably well.
So here are some semi-final tallies (keep in mind they’re still subject to change) . . . after accounting for all the ‘lost’ poems, homogenizing the files, eliminating duplicates, and so on, there were 657 poems (this still included some duplicates, but only when the versions were significantly different). Among those, 292—about 44 percent—will not be published on this site in the first run.
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.
