Of all the moving words and sounds and images yesterday, it was Elizabeth Alexander's poignant poem that finally put me over the edge and got me bawling. I'm posting it here, because her words express everything I feel about yesterday better than I ever could. [Read more →]
The problem: I wanted to create an additional/alternative/extra RSS feed for a WordPress 2.7 blog that excluded posts with a given tag.
The reason there's not a straightforward way of handling this problem is because WP inexplicably doesn't offer any built-in tags/filters for excluding tags for a query the way it does with categories; plus there's no real built-in feed management to speak of.
The solution turned out to be remarkably simple, but it took about 2 hours of googling to figure it out (since "tags" and "rss" appear on every WordPress blog in existence). So I'm recording it here for any future searchers. [Read more →]
Check this out: my dear friend MC, who lives in Portland and knows I've never seen snow, made this video just for me:
My friend Gena was one of the 27 electors chosen to represent Florida in the Electoral College. When she cast her vote for Barack Obama in Tallahassee on Monday, she was also one of the two openly gay electors -- the first in Florida's history. (The other was Chip Arndt, of Amazing Race and Florida Democratic politics fame.) Gena is an incredible woman -- she single-handedly started the Obama movement in Pinellas County in April, 2007. I'm proud to know her, and so glad to be represented by her in the Electoral College!
(Thanks to Towleroad for the pic!)
Gov. Crist just got married at First Methodist, like, an hour ago. Check out this awesome lede on the St. Pete Times:
When Gov. Charlie Crist kissed the bride, it was tender and brief. She wanted more.
So she put her hands on his face and kissed him again.
Later on...
The biggest celebrity, perhaps, was Geraldo Rivera... He said he talked about Crist's wedding on Fox News' Bill O'Reilly show and O'Reilly said to give the governor his love.
Charlie Crist kisses the bride, but she wants more
You just can't make this stuff up. Heh.
I do feel kind of sorry for the two of them. But you know... this isn't the 1950's, and St. Pete is hardly America's heartland. Crist could've used the passage of Amendment 2 as an opening. He could've shown up at Mirror Lake, come out, and vowed to fight. But he didn't. He's taken the coward's way (or, more likely, the incredibly-ambitious-politician's way).
He and whatshername have made their bed, and they can lie in it.
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