Ice Palace photos

Found this link today, giving a full pictorial history of the ice palace, from its December construction to its February demolition. *gloats*

Turnips

All right, so I'll admit the mashed turnips at dinner really weren't much of a success.

Freedom and Life

Many thanks to rivka at Respectful of Otters, who points to Amanda Marcotte of Mousewards, who made the following observation here at Pandagon:

I have also noticed that two values that BushCo likes to fling around are "life" and "freedom", but I have also noticed that the two are opposite values in their rhetoric. You can have freedom or life, but not both. They are pretty consistent in this viewpoint, and if they evoke freedom, you can be sure they are covering up for someone's death, and if they evoke "life", you can be sure they are trying to take away your freedoms.

Wow. Wow.

You're right. That's exactly what they're doing.