Our first cat blog post

Mike Finnigan

Mike Finnegan is a hero/legend back here in flyover Mo-Kan. Mike came to KU on a basketball scholarship way back in the early to mid 1960’s. Sidetracked by his love of playing music he parlayed it into a lifelong professional career much to the delight of many including all his famous friends in the music world. Just check his resume and you will see what I mean.

Another much less known side to Mike is his involvement in progressive politics. He is a major contributor to Crooks & Liars, one of the premiere blogs on the Web. Currently Finnigan is on tour with Joe Cocker, so while he is away, others have stepped in and filled his shoes. Look for him back soon though.

My big wish is for a reunion of The Jerry Hahn Brotherhood. I’ll meet you at the Early Morning Café.

Music Is A Central Part Of My Life

Music is a central part of my life and always will be. A friend of mine operates what I consider to be on the best music blogs among the hundreds of thousands online. It is named after one of my favorite honky tonk songs--"There Stands The Glass"--and you should bookmark it and visit often. New posts arrive on nearly a daily basis.

Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation

http://www.cornwallalliance.org/

Go ahead and read their opening page and decide if you are a true believer in the biblical sense when it comes to the study of global warming,

Blogging software

Free Blogger templates have never impressed me, but this is the one I find most to my liking. That is until I can find a suitable logo and the type of blogging software I want to use. Any Suggestions? TypePad? WordPess? There is so much to consider. I want something relatively simple to maintain yet looks sharp on most all computer monitors.

Thank you, Mr. Dow

I hope you do not mind in the spirit of fair use that I repost this LTTE you elegantly composed.

To the Editor:

When George W. Bush was governor of Texas, he presided over more than 150 executions. In more than one-third of the cases — 57 in all — lawyers representing condemned inmates asked then-Governor Bush for a commutation of sentence, so that the inmates would serve life in prison rather than face execution.

Some of these inmates had been represented by lawyers who slept during trials. Some were mentally retarded. Some were juveniles at the time they committed the crime for which they were sentenced to death.

In all these cases, Governor Bush refused to commute their sentences, saying that the inmates had had full access to the judicial system.

I. Lewis Libby Jr. had the best lawyers money can buy. His crime cannot be attributed to youth or retardation. He has expressed no remorse whatsoever for lying to a grand jury or participating in the administration’s effort to mislead the American people about the war in Iraq. President Bush’s commutation of Mr. Libby’s sentence is certainly legal, but it just as surely offends the fundamental constitutional value of equality.

Because President Bush signed a commutation, a rich and powerful man will spend not a day in prison, while 57 poor and poorly connected human beings died because Governor Bush refused to lift a pen for them.

David R. Dow

Houston, July 3, 2007

Happy 4th of July

I am having trouble setting up my internal pages at the one-stop.

I hope AxisHost helps me correct this minor problem.

BGO

I am me

My name is Bill Osment and I am a professional reference librarian in a large urban public library. Most of us librarians are liberals, but there are some really whacky uptight wingnuts and Republicans too amongst us. It keeps things lively to say the least.

I like to read, listen and play music, have spiritied political dialogues with people, eat, drink and be merry in what it appears more and more to me a world gone wrong.

Look for me to add content here often and you'll find plenty of links to famous and not so famous bloggers.

Expect lots of stuff on music too.

And suggestions for things to read if you have the time.

More later.

Bill