Ok, I’ve decided that since this is the last day of November, and my only posting for the month is on its last day, I want these posts to be visible a little more than 12 hours, so I am merging November and December in the weblog. Weblog heresy? Maybe, but I run these parts, so my power trip says that that’s the way things are gonna be. So, deal with it.
Anyway … why am I posting again? Well, I took a quick look at the weblog of Tom Tomorrow, who writes the ‘This Modern World’ political cartoon that appears, for you Michiganders, in the Detroit weekly, the Metro Times. It also appears in the online magazine salon.com amongst dozens of other places, I’m sure. Probably even somewhere where in the SF Bay Area.
Anyway, Tom usually keeps an interesting weblog that mainly focuses on the mindblowingly insane antics of the Whitehouse spin doctors and pointing out the shenanigans and outright lies of some of the more fervent ‘conservative’ talking heads. To say that he is not a fan of Ann Coulter and Bill O’Reilly is an understatement. You can get to the This Modern World site and Tom’s currently on hiatus weblog here.
Okay, now that I’ve plugged one of my regular reads as far as websites go, let me get to the point that I reposted for: Tom’s friend Bob Harris is a sometime contributor to Tom’s weblog, and he just started a long trip around the world, posting some of his observations in a new section on Tom’s site. His first stop was London, and some of the things that he comments on were some of the same thoughts that I had, but hadn’t considered pulling together for an insightful ‘England through American Eyes’ post. Specifically, I had the same thoughts about the inclusion of Darwin on the Ten Pound note, the size of the foreign language section in bookstores, and the price of cabs. It’s an interesting read, I think, check it out here.