**Cognitive Dissonance**

So I admit to having read the Sanford/Maria emails. What sticks in my mind is not the intimate quasi-sexual details - innuendo more than anything - but his most fascinating description of his love for getting away from everything and back to nature... in an excavator-


...there is something wonderful about listening to country music playing in the cab, air conditioner running, the hum of a huge diesel engine in the background, the tranquility that comes with being in a virtual wilderness of trees and marsh, the day breaking and vibrant pink coming alive in the morning clouds...

Can't wait to see the follow up when I watch last night's Daily Show and Colbert Report....

** All I can say is....**

wow.

**Memory Lane**

I was updating my LinkedIn data and came a cross the name of a colleague for whom I worked some 25 years ago. That started a cascade of searches for previous jobs to list. I found a website for people who worked for the Southern Command Network in Panama. I did many years ago. I remember this video on TV. Didn't produce it myself, but was responsible for MANY hours of local programming. Fortunately, none of it is on-line:)

**A beginning is a delicate time....**

The maestro of subtle geekish comedy:

**Why I still miss Oregon**

Bill banning semen-throwing on its way to the governor

by Michelle Cole, The Oregonian

Thursday June 04, 2009, 3:13 PM

SALEM -- Usually politicians love the sound of their own voices. But not so when the topic is a proposed new law making it a sex crime to propel "a dangerous substance at another person."

That substance, as defined in House Bill 2478, includes semen, blood, urine or feces.