Thanks for your comment on yesterday's post, Alice. I haven't checked out the video Bill Moyers aired - Torturing Democracy - yet, but plan to. Meanwhile, for a never ending stream of despicable and delusional Dickishess there is always the Dick Cheney page on the Huffington Post. I glance at it occasionally in the hope that something bad will have happened to him.

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Okay so I do, I really do want to be rooting for Obama but what's with this latest appointment? GE's defender on environmental issues, Ignacia Moreno, has been hired to do the legal stuff for EPA? How did Obama explained this decision, I'm wondering. It kind of gives me a weird feeling in my stomach.

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It looks like the sun is going to be in and out this morning, here in New Hampshire as I scan the news and get ready to start this day a day off from work. I'm hoping to catch up on some things here at home, and get Willie out for a walk, and finish up my reading for Bookeaters. We're reading the book The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage a wonderfully written, detailed portrayal of the marriage of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln.

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So what's happening today?

First off, I see that Obama gave his commencement speech at Arizona State. What a strange decision on their part, to not award him the degree and what a gracious response from POTUS!

Jon Stewart had an excellent piece on The Daily Show about ASU and their decision to diss the president.

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First, the poem - a beauty by Mark Strand from today's Writer's Almanac ...

My Name

by Mark Strand

Once when the lawn was a golden green
and the marbled moonlit trees rose like fresh memorials
in the scented air, and the whole countryside pulsed
with the chirr and murmur of insects, I lay in the grass,
feeling the great distances open above me, and wondered
what I would become and where I would find myself,
and though I barely existed, I felt for an instant
that the vast star-clustered sky was mine, and I heard
my name as if for the first time, heard it the way
one hears the wind or the rain, but faint and far off
as though it belonged not to me but to the silence
from which it had come and to which it would go.

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In a bit of a rush this morning, as usual. Our black lab Willie came up lame yesterday. He has a chronic shoulder problem which something seems to have exacerbated. This morning he seems a little bit better, but still not himself. He'll be turning 10 this summer, so it's worrisome to see him hurting.

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First - I watched a snippet of Maddow in which she interviewed Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson about Cheney, et al. He's the former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell. One of the most interesting (to me) points he made with Maddow was to note what a fearful person Dick Cheney is. I've always seen him as fear mongering - but seeing him as himself fearful was fascinating.

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Happy Saturday morning ... as the clouds roll in, bringing some much needed rain to these parts. I went for a run yesterday after work and jogging by the fire house, noticed the sign saying that the fire danger was "extreme." (Breathed a small sigh of relief that I wasn't lounging by the chiminea, endangering the neighborhood without realizing!

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Having been asleep at the switch on the soccer front for awhile, I was pleased to receive a Google Alert about the USWNT's most recent win.  This one coming in Richmond, VA, where South Korea fell to the USWNT.  Vic Dorr, Jr. describes the game in the Times Dispatch.  Sounds like Angela Hucles continues her [. Click to continue reading...

Stupid injuries are the best. Gotta love rich athletes absolutely humiliating themselves.
Enter Fabian Espindola.
He's a pretty good soccer player for Real Salt Lake in Major League Soccer.
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Tomorrow at 6AM we'll start the next leg of the Olympic tournament journey. There's not a lot in the way of soccer news in the interim. The WNT Blog is a good place to track the USWNT's travels and preparation for tomorrow's showdown with Canada. An upbeat and determined Canadian squad is [...]SHARETHIS. Click to continue reading...