Tuesday, January 31st, 2006 – 10:55:54 PM
I’m sure other bloggers will comment on the SOTU and the Tim Kaine response, but currently I’m tired, and want to go sleep. So, for now, my response is…
Nyookewlerrr nags at me like nothing else.
Monday, January 30th, 2006 – 09:34:35 PM
It’s not just the legislation that makes this blogger’s head shake. Often it’s the way the votes fall. These bills are currently working their way up the floor of their respective houses:
First is Janet Howell’s SB 253 would require ministers, rabbis, and imams who suspect child abuse to report it. The vote split rather interestingly:
YEAS–Miller, [...]
Sunday, January 29th, 2006 – 07:17:40 PM
Next January, we bloggers should pull together some teams (or I’ll be forced to find some friends), go to New York City, and run the Idiotarod, a parody of the great Alaska sled race, involving teams of four people pulling a shopping cart five miles from Brooklyn and New York. My life would find some [...]
Sunday, January 29th, 2006 – 04:40:43 PM
Today is Thomas Paine Day! Among other holidays designated by the General Assembly over the past 10 years (I couldn’t find records for anything earlier):
January
Mentoring Month
13 Lee-Jackson Day (Friday before 3rd Monday)
16 Religious Freedom Day
25 Brunswick Stew Day (4th Wednesday)
29 Thomas Paine Day
31 Retired Teachers Day
February
Childern’s Dental Health Month
2 Forgotten Airmen Day
4 Give Kids a [...]
Sunday, January 29th, 2006 – 03:40:41 PM
That would be National Forensic League, not the football league.
Friday and Saturday I was at Randolph-Macon Academy in the middle of freaking nowhere Front Royal. R-MA contains one of the best speech and debate teams in the area (though we beat them), and, apparently, many, many state rifle championships. Scary, very scary. Anyway, I was [...]
Thursday, January 26th, 2006 – 10:46:41 PM
Okay, okay.
Holy shit.
RICHMOND, Jan. 26 — A Virginia lawmaker accidentally discharged a handgun in his General Assembly office Thursday morning, firing a bullet into a bulletproof vest that was hanging on the wall of his office. No one was hurt.
Del. John S. “Jack” Reid (R-Henrico) apologized to his colleagues on the floor of the [...]
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006 – 02:02:54 PM
This is interesting…the Times-Dispatch writes about a puiblic debate thats to take place between Democratic Senator John Edwards (of the Virginia Senate, not the son of a mill worker) and Republican Delegate Charles Carrico. What’s the debate on?
Del. Charles W. Carrico Sr., R-Grayson, and Sen. John S. Edwards, D-Roanoke, will debate amending the Virginia Statute [...]
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006 – 01:39:29 AM
Yes, I am fully aware blogging has been light this week. With the end of a semester brings a slew of due dates. I will be gone, again, Friday and Saturday: the NFL Mid-Atlantic District Debate qualifier is being held at Randolph-Macon Academy, which is in, far as I can tell, in the middle of [...]
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006 – 12:38:15 AM
This man apparently needs a ride.
Sunday, January 22nd, 2006 – 09:41:32 PM
After a nice weekend of Kenton being too tired to blog and the General Assembly being out of session, we are to be back on Monday. We are also to be avoiding, according to the English majors out there, excessive use of “be” verbs, which would be rather dumb. Anyway.
In addition to a bill to [...]
