Technology

I had this really good rant going about how this administration proves that neo con theories are totally stupid and bankrupt and how they've fucked everything up by being delusional school marms pointing their fingers at the world and tsk tsking when countries won't BEHAVE!
It was really good, but it all vanished when I tried to spell check, so you just have to take my word for it. It was pithy and well written and if Condi Rice read it she would fall down in tears. Alas, my ability to save the world was ruined by technology. Or my failure to SAVE prior to spell checking.
So here is a photo of a plaque at the Santa Barbara City Hall honoring the original white women settlers who came there. I thought it was appropriate today since today is not only the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, but Henry Gates had an op-ed piece in the NYT about trying to find the descendants of the few free black patriots who fought in the American Revolutionary War so that they can join the Sons or Daughters of the Revolution. The DAR being the group that refused to allow the mezzo soprano Marian Anderson to sing in their hall because she was black. Most of the free black men who fought in the revolutionary war fought for the British, since they had abolished slavery back in Britain by then and they offered to manumit any slaves who fought for them. This was one of those anarchic things that tickled my fancy. Imagine the stuffed up snobby DAR and SAR meetings being suddenly packed with african americans. Hee heee!