Work in Progress

sounds better than holding his shlort

 

This requires no further comment. Our society is on an inevitable downward spiral.

the bark side

  

Completely hilarious, unless you are of the canine persuasion, in which case you may find it oddly threatening.

corruption

 

A brilliant video.

Harvard professor (and TEDster) Larry Lessig on corruption.

Americans who still delude themselves that "there is nothing wrong with America that can't be fixed by what's right with America" have not been paying attention. Something's broken in America.

 

Before you go to bed tonight: watch. this.

 

Then grab a kid and make them watch. It's too late for us but we have to teach our kids to learn how to continously learn or they're toast.

Wow.

 

how to fake french

 

This is very funny if you speak french. I love the bescherelle as a fitting-in tactic.

simple, really

 

Some good advice from Erin to start the year. May it be a good one for us all.

 

And now, a word from Rick

If you've read the blog for a while, you probably know Rick. 

Rick is a blogger from Virginia and, to put it mildly, we have had our share of disagreements over the years. He and I don't see eye to eye on politics or religion and he is a not even a hockey fan so, you know, on the surface there's not a lot of common ground but I'll let him take it from here:

Good day (or night) to all of you regular (and not so regular) readers of Robert’s Work in Progress.  

Robert and I agree on very few things of a political and/or religious nature yet we’ve agreed tonight to place a friendly wager on the 2012 Presidential race.  Robert is willing to give $250 to the charity of my choice if a Republican beats Obama in November.  I’ve agreed to give the same amount to a charity of Robert’s choice should, God forbid, Obama win, an event likely resulting in the last gift to charity I’ll be able to afford but I’m willing today to take the risk because I’m hoping Americans have learned a thing or two about the man and his policies since 2008. We’ve also agreed to have a post published by the other on our respective blogs should we lose the wager.

With that now out of the way, I’d like to take advantage of Robert’s readership if only to wish you each God’s best this Christmas, a genuine manifestation of His love and presence, and especially His peace to you.

Thanks for the time… and thanks to Robert for this idea. 

Thank you, Rick, for jumping in and agreeing as enthusiastically as you did. I look forward to tracking the polls until election day. (Frankly, I doubt it will be close but time will tell) 

In the meantime, best wishes to everyone for happy & safe Christmas & Hanukkah and let's hope 2012 brings good things.

 

Gay finally faces the music

This is long overdue.

From TalkingPointsMemo.com:

After now-former Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch (R) resigned her leadership post over an “innappropriate relationship,” a Minneapolis gay man — on behalf of the entire gay community — is pouring salt on the wound.

John Medeiros, who curates an LGBT reading series in Minneapolis, wrote an open letter to Koch, saying he is sorry gays and lesbians have destroyed the institution of marriage and contributing to her inevitable relationship with a subordinate staffer.

“These recent events have made it quite clear that our gay and lesbian tacts have gone too far, affecting even the most respectful of our society,” Medeiros wrote in the letter. He continues:

We apologize that our selfish requests to marry those we love has cheapened and degraded traditional marriage so much that we caused you to stray from your own holy union for something more cheap and tawdry.  And we are doubly remorseful in knowing that many will see this as a form of sexual harassment of a subordinate.

Koch stepped down as majority leader last week, and the news of her relationship quickly spread. One of her top staffers, Michael Brodkorb, left the Senate recently, too. There’s no firm evidence that the two events are related, but rumors are swirling.

Read the rest here.

It's about bloody time the Gays step up and accept their rightful blame for what they've done.

our latest addition

Crowd by Hugh MacLeod

I really like it and it is currently hanging in our office living room, as I like to call it.

Everyone is welcome to see it in person though it would be much appreciated if, for obvious reasons, you did not all come at once.

awesomely awesome awesomeness

 

Such awesomeness as you've ever seen. Stick with it, the awesomeness ramps up at the 4:00 mark.

Go Habs.

Thank you, Erin, for finding this gem and sending it to me. (What the hell are the rest of you doing all day?)