Do You Even Hear the Words Coming Out of Your Mouth?

From an article on public acceptance of gay marriage, the following:

Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, a favorite presidential candidate of many in the religious right, equivocated. It is appropriate that this is a matter of state law, she said. Then she added that she would support a federal initiative to overturn the decisions of the states.

What? Appropriate that this is a matter of state law: let's make a Federal law to over-rule that law!

Sheesh.

New Release Tuesday at BVC

Book View Café is pleased to announce the release of Chris Dolley's An Unsafe Pair of Hands, a quirky murder mystery set in rural England that charts the descent and rise of a detective on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

Peter Shand is the 'safe pair of hands' – a high-flying police administrator seconded to a quiet rural CID team to gain the operational experience he needs for promotion. On his second day he’s thrust into a high-profile murder case. A woman’s body is discovered in an old stone circle – with another woman buried alive beneath her.

The pressure on Shand is enormous. The case is baffling. There appears to be no link between the two crimes. The media is clamouring for answers. And Shand’s convinced his wife is having an affair with someone called Gabriel. Which just happens to be the name of the two chief suspects. Both are womanisers, and both produce a mystery woman - who sounds suspiciously like Shand’s wife - as their alibi, The pressure builds. Shand can’t sleep, a local journalist is out to discredit him, his wife is about to be dragged into the case and then, goaded at a press conference about lack of progress, he invents a lead. And keeps on lying – to the press, his boss, his team – telling himself that he'll solve the case before anyone finds out.

And then a second murder occurs. And had there been a third?

Shand begins to doubt his ability. He's desperate, increasingly unpredictable, pursued by an amorous psychic, and unjustly gaining a reputation for arresting livestock.

What's going to break first? The case, or Shand?

July 5, 2011
$3.99

Holy Cow

When David Brooks says you're off the rails, Republican Party, maybe it's time to, like, think a little bit?

If the debt ceiling talks fail, independents voters will see that Democrats were willing to compromise but Republicans were not. If responsible Republicans don’t take control, independents will conclude that Republican fanaticism caused this default. They will conclude that Republicans are not fit to govern.

And they will be right.