I'm just curious...

And hey, the current administration might even go so far as to call me a terrorist for even asking, but what twisted interpretation of the Interstate Commerce Clause was used to allow last night's Congressional decision to give federal courts jurisdiction in the Shiavo situation?

Where the fuck are all the actual conservatives? You know, people who believe in smaller govt. whose job is running the country, not micromanaging your family?

To all the gay people out there complaining that they don't have a say about their partner's medical decisions: neither do the rest of us anymore, so you can drop that one now.

Welcome to America, where you are free to live however you choose and believe whatever you want, as long as it's christian.

Fuckheads.

I'm just curious...

And hey, the current administration might even go so far as to call me a terrorist for even asking, but what twisted interpretation of the Interstate Commerce Clause was used to allow last night's Congressional decision to give federal courts jurisdiction in the Shiavo situation?

Where the fuck are all the actual conservatives? You know, people who believe in smaller govt. whose job is running the country, not micromanaging your family?

To all the gay people out there complaining that they don't have a say about their partner's medical decisions: neither do the rest of us anymore, so you can drop that one now.

Welcome to America, where you are free to live however you choose and believe whatever you want, as long as it's christian.

Fuckheads.

I'm just curious...

And hey, the current administration might even go so far as to call me a terrorist for even asking, but what twisted interpretation of the Interstate Commerce Clause was used to allow last night's Congressional decision to give federal courts jurisdiction in the Shiavo situation?

Where the fuck are all the actual conservatives? You know, people who believe in smaller govt. whose job is running the country, not micromanaging your family?

To all the gay people out there complaining that they don't have a say about their partner's medical decisions: neither do the rest of us anymore, so you can drop that one now.

Welcome to America, where you are free to live however you choose and believe whatever you want, as long as it's christian.

Fuckheads.

How to explain it?

We went to the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore's Inner Harbor yesterday, and they had this Titanic exhibition. Evan enjoyed the exhibit. A lot. He talked about it all the way home.

I told him about the Olympic and the Britannic (Gigantic) and that they were less famous, but used the same basic hull design and also fell to disaster. I was wrong about the Olympic, I didn't realize it hadn't sunk, but had merely collided with everything in the Atlantic before finally being retired and cut up in 1935. I explained that the Titanic was famous not because it sank, lots of ships have sank, but because it sank on it's maiden voyage, after having been touted as 'unsinkable' by the companies that built and operated it. He doesn't know the word irony, and it's not an easy concept to get across, but he did say that it was funny that the unsinkable ship sank on it's first voyage. He knows it's not funny 'hah hah'; lots of people died, but he's aware that there's something in the scenario that's not quite what it seems.

I'm just not sure how you explain irony to a six year old. He obviously gets situational irony at some basic level, see above, but I have no idea how to convey the other concepts the word encompasses.

In unexpected bits of news, while I was typing this up, I got a phone call. Apparently my Roofless Vehicle of German Descent arrived at the dealer this morning.

How to explain it?

We went to the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore's Inner Harbor yesterday, and they had this Titanic exhibition. Evan enjoyed the exhibit. A lot. He talked about it all the way home.

I told him about the Olympic and the Britannic (Gigantic) and that they were less famous, but used the same basic hull design and also fell to disaster. I was wrong about the Olympic, I didn't realize it hadn't sunk, but had merely collided with everything in the Atlantic before finally being retired and cut up in 1935. I explained that the Titanic was famous not because it sank, lots of ships have sank, but because it sank on it's maiden voyage, after having been touted as 'unsinkable' by the companies that built and operated it. He doesn't know the word irony, and it's not an easy concept to get across, but he did say that it was funny that the unsinkable ship sank on it's first voyage. He knows it's not funny 'hah hah'; lots of people died, but he's aware that there's something in the scenario that's not quite what it seems.

I'm just not sure how you explain irony to a six year old. He obviously gets situational irony at some basic level, see above, but I have no idea how to convey the other concepts the word encompasses.

In unexpected bits of news, while I was typing this up, I got a phone call. Apparently my Roofless Vehicle of German Descent arrived at the dealer this morning.

How to explain it?

We went to the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore's Inner Harbor yesterday, and they had this Titanic exhibition. Evan enjoyed the exhibit. A lot. He talked about it all the way home.

I told him about the Olympic and the Britannic (Gigantic) and that they were less famous, but used the same basic hull design and also fell to disaster. I was wrong about the Olympic, I didn't realize it hadn't sunk, but had merely collided with everything in the Atlantic before finally being retired and cut up in 1935. I explained that the Titanic was famous not because it sank, lots of ships have sank, but because it sank on it's maiden voyage, after having been touted as 'unsinkable' by the companies that built and operated it. He doesn't know the word irony, and it's not an easy concept to get across, but he did say that it was funny that the unsinkable ship sank on it's first voyage. He knows it's not funny 'hah hah'; lots of people died, but he's aware that there's something in the scenario that's not quite what it seems.

I'm just not sure how you explain irony to a six year old. He obviously gets situational irony at some basic level, see above, but I have no idea how to convey the other concepts the word encompasses.

In unexpected bits of news, while I was typing this up, I got a phone call. Apparently my Roofless Vehicle of German Descent arrived at the dealer this morning.