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January 19th, 2009
 | 11:05 am - yes, there is a vague canine theme below the fold, why do you ask?
Lifehacker's guide to catching the inauguration from anywhere. Online. Twitter. Your phone. Your tv. And the full official schedule to all of it.
Saving the pups of war in Afghanistan. And nowzad dogs, rescuing stray and abandoned dogs anywhere in the world.
Bush's long, lame goodbye. ( from NYTimes )
Woofreport. A daily digest of dog-related links. Or bytes, or bites, you might say. Perhaps bones and biscuits?
(and this icon because Susan B. Anthony had a dog who went with her everywhere. If the Obamas had picked out their dog yet, I'd have its photo here, too.)
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 | 12:50 pm
A dream matures:
…I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day….
–Martin Luther King, Jr., speech delivered at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., Aug. 28, 1963.
Although President-elect Obama included gay people in mentioning the groups that supported him, HBO blacked out Bishop Gene Robinson's invocation, didn't introduce the Washington DC Gay Men's Chorus when they performed or identify them onscreen. Here is the full text of Robinson's invocation. If you want to complain to HBO, here's the link for that. Pam's House Blend has video links of both speakers, and notes that Robinson's invocation was supposed to offset the insult of homophobe Rick Warren's invocation tomorrow.
More from USA Today, Dallas Voice, Washington Monthly and AfterEllen.
Update: Reruns of the concert will include the invocation footage, according to HBO.
NYTimes: Two churches, black and white, see inaugural hope.
CNN: Obama plans ambitious first week.
Paul Krugman writes a letter to Obama with a lot of suggestions.
*Now* Nancy Pelosi wants an investigation of Bush officials. Timing is everything, from the woman who put the impeachment off the table for two years.
This is where people lived in Gaza City. It's not there any more. Israel plans to control reconstruction of Gaza. Israel has destroyed 5,000 homes, 16 government buildings and 20 mosques, and damaged 20,000 houses (for some definition of "damaged" that doesn't quite include total destruction.) Saudi Arabia has offered a billion dollars to rebuild the Gaza Strip. And there's more going on behind the scenes.
Al Jazeera as the violence network, making people think differently about war. Does the media self-censorship considered in this Vanity Fair article happen there, too? Or, considering the VF is by Hitchins, is that something only in his mind?
Perhaps the true history of the Bush years can best be read in the titles of the Onion satirical articles during that time. [go to the site; the syndication link needs editingf or bad code]
Ozarque has recommended links in sf, fantasy and filk.
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 | 12:59 pm
I'm delighted to see my old Sentinel stories are being recced on Crack Van. Readers should realize that the website they're on is old (from the mid-90s) and has not been updated in some time, because I moved from pc to Mac and didn't have a program that would work for me; if there are comment links on any pages, they go to a mailbox that doesn't work any more. I'd like to update the site and reorganize it one of these days, if I can find a program that will not require me to learn more coding than I'm comfortable with.
Anyway, feel free to send comments on the stories to me at twistedchick at gmail dot com.
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